Wisdom Quotes
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Wisdom is a sacred communion.
Victor Hugo
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It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
Walter Lippmann
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It takes thousands of them to create an archive of human wisdom; only one to set a torch to it. Wouldn’t you have to say, then, that the work of the librarians is more typical of mortal behavior than the work of the arsonist?
Kage Baker
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Doubt is the beginning of wisdom.
Aristotle
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Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.
Pablo Picasso
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No party has a monopoly on wisdom. No democracy works without compromise. But when Governor Romney and his allies in Congress tell us we can somehow lower our deficit by spending trillions more on new tax breaks for the wealthy - well, you do the math. I refuse to go along with that. And as long as I'm President, I never will.
Barack Obama
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You should not be afraid of failures, and not get enamored by success.
Nirmala Srivastava
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Let wise men piece the world together with wisdom Or poets with holy magic. Hey-di-ho.
Wallace Stevens
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There are no limits to the amount of love and wisdom one can take to Heaven.
Anthony Douglas Williams
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Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Patience is the companion of wisdom.
Saint Augustine
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A man once said, 'All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.' Mark Twain, you know. He had a fine mustache. Men of wisdom so often do.
Laini Taylor
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It is like the seed put in the soil - the more one sows, the greater the harvest.
Orison Swett Marden
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By meditation we develop that strength within us, so automatically we start solving the problem.
Nirmala Srivastava
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Nature utters her voice in lessons of heavenly wisdom and eternal truth.
Ellen G. White
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What you know, you know, what you don't know, you don't know. This is true wisdom.
Confucius
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If you want to go east, don't go west.
Ramakrishna
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Start with God - the first step in learning is bowing down to God; only fools thumb their noses at such wisdom and learning.
King Solomon
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The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.
Socrates
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What has history said of eminence without honor, wealth without wisdom, power and possessions without principle? The answer is reiterated in the overthrow of the mightiest empires of ancient times. Babylon, Persia, Greece, Rome! The four successive, universal powers of the past. What and where are they?
Orson F. Whitney
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I have no wisdom to share on dating.
Rachel Dratch
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When a president makes life and death decisions, he should draw strength and wisdom from broad and deep experience with the reasons for and the risks of committing our children to our defense. For no matter how many others are involved in the decision, the president is a lonely man in a dark room when the casualty reports come in.
John McCain
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If God had sufficient wisdom and power to construct such a beautiful world as this, then we must admit that his wisdom and power are immeasurably greater than that of man, and hence he is qualified to reign as king.
Orson Pratt
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As the fear of God is the beginning of wisdom, so the denial of God is the height of foolishness.
R. C. Sproul