Wisdom Quotes
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In youth men are apt to write more wisely than they really know or feel; and the remainder of life may be not idly spent in realizing and convincing themselves of the wisdom which they uttered long ago.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Wisdom comes with winters.
Oscar Wilde
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Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.
Lactantius
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I know that inner wisdom is more precious than wealth. The more you spend it, the more you gain.
Oprah Winfrey
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The future of any country which is dependent upon the will and wisdom of its citizens is damaged, and irreparably damaged, whenever any of its children is not educated to the full extent of his talent, from grade school through graduate school.
John F. Kennedy
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An almost perfect relationship with his father was the earthly root of all his wisdom. From his own father, he said, he first learned that Fatherhood must be at the core of the universe. [speaking of George MacDonald]
C. S. Lewis
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Linux is a complex example of the wisdom of crowds. It's a good example in the sense that it shows you can set people to work in a decentralized way - that is, without anyone really directing their efforts in a particular direction - and still trust that they're going to come up with good answers.
James Surowiecki
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Only your ascent is important. Once you ascend, everything is saved
Nirmala Srivastava
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Except for the grace of God, I would be nobody - and that grace is the opposite of merit - human labour, education or human wisdom.
T. B. Joshua
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You can observe a lot by watching.
Yogi Berra
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Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.
Elizabeth Hardwick
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The conventional wisdom is that if you are gay, you cannot play the romantic straight lead in a movie.
Ian Mckellen
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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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We learn from each other. We learn from others' mistakes, from their experience, their wisdom. It makes it easier for us to come to better decisions in our own lives.
Adrian Grenier
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I believe we have become paralyzed, paralyzed by our desire to be loved. Now our founding fathers had the wisdom to know that social acceptance and popularity were fleeing, and that this country's principles needed to be rooted in strengths greater than the passions and the emotions of the times.
Chris Christie
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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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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
Socrates
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High in the heavens I saw the moon this morning, Albeit the sun shone bright; Unto my soul it spoke, in voice of warning, "Remember Night!"
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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Be an example in your Church activity-honor the Sabbath day, attend your meetings, observe the Word of Wisdom, pay your tithes and offerings, support your leaders, and otherwise keep the commandments. Serve cheerfully and gratefully in every calling you receive. Live worthy of a temple recommend and enjoy the sweet, sacred spirit that comes from frequent temple attendance.
Ezra Taft Benson
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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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Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.
Anatole France
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I always think it is kind of funny when it comes to wisdom, and I say God has a sense of humor, because my middle name is Solomon, and I love the Book of Proverbs which is written by Solomon, and I have read from the Book of Proverbs to start and end every day since I was 14.
Benjamin Carson
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An art, which has an aim to achieve the beauty, is called a philosophy or in the absolute sense it is named wisdom.
Al-Farabi