Wisdom Quotes
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In most cases, a year older is a good thing. More wisdom, more experience, and less damns given.
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For this is wisdom: to live, to take what fate, or the Gods, may give.
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I think it's true we look forward to enormous amounts of information, but I think we would be better off if we thought about the kinds of wisdom and thoughtfulness that we need in order to handle the amount of information ahead.
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The wisest of you men is he who has realized, like Socrates, that in respect of wisdom he is really worthless.
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Even the most daring and accomplished people have undergone tremendous difficulty. In fact, the more successful they became, the more they attributed their success to the lessons learned during their most difficult times. Adversity is our teacher. When we view adversity as a guide towards greater inner growth, we will then learn to accept the wisdom our soul came into this life to learn.
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The thing about the intuition is that there's always a calmness to it, if it says yes to us or even if it says no. It's always very calm and a feeling of wisdom comes with it.
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Where is God? Where can I find him?" we ask. We don't realize that's like a fish swimming frantically through the ocean in search OF the ocean
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... To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.
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It's not so difficult to acknowledge that we lack wisdom. When we pray and seek God's wisdom with a longing for a deeper fullness of the life of Christ, then we will always find something to pursue.
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Wisdom is not communicable. The wisdom which a wise man tries to communicate always sounds foolish.
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True and lasting solution to correct ills can be found only by inner, collective transformation of human beings.
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In war, men lose what makes them great. Their creativity. Their wisdom. Their joy. All that's left is their utility. War is not monstrous for making corpses of men so much as it is for making machines of them. And woe to those who have no use in war except to feed the machines.
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Meditation brings wisdom; lack of meditation leaves ignorance. Know well what leads you forward and what holds you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom.
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True merit does not depend on the times or on fashion. Those who have no other advantage than courtly manners lose it when they are away from court. But good sense, knowledge, and wisdom make their possessors knowledgeable and beloved in all ages and in all times.
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Confidence that one's impressions are God-given is no guarantee that this is really so, even when they persist and grow stronger through long seasons of prayer. Bible-based wisdom must judge them.
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Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
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There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.
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Improvisation is not the expression of accident but rather of the accumulated yearnings, dreams and wisdom of our very soul.
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The worst type of freedom we are suffering from in modern times is the freedom to lead an immoral life.
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Knowledge is merely brilliance in organization of ideas and not wisdom. The truly wise person goes beyond knowledge.
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Full oft we see Cold wisdom waiting on superfluous folly.
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To wilful men, the injuries that they themselves procure must be their schoolmasters.
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Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance.
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Cunning... is but the low mimic of wisdom.
