Wisdom Quotes
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The heart sometimes leaps forward when the head tells us to be still. When this happens, patience is clearly called for as we seek to find a proper balance between impulse and discretion.
Alexander Clark
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What both the left and the right overlook is our Founders' wisdom about the limits and dangers of government.
Ed Crane
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Wisdom is neither gold, nor silver, nor fame, nor wealth, nor health, nor strength, nor beauty.
Plutarch
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Limitation of aims is the mother of wisdom and the secret of achievement.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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I define spirituality as a search for love, beauty, happiness and wisdom. Spirituality is a journey that we never finish.
Akiane Kramarik
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It is easy for men to write and talk like philosophers, but to act with wisdom, there is the rub!
Antoine Rivarol
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Behold, I am weary of my wisdom, like a bee that has gathered too much honey; I need hands outstretched to receive it.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Wisdom doesn't go out of style, even if it's in increasingly short supply.
Michael Savage
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Old Marley was dead as a doornail... The wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile.
Charles Dickens
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You will find the truth the way you have found your awareness, spontaneously. It's a living process.
Nirmala Srivastava
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Wisdom is keeping a sense of fallibility of all our views and opinions.
Gerald Brenan
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Stop being afraid of getting older. With age comes wisdom and confidence.
Robin Williams
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Life and wisdom. What more could anybody ask?
Clive Barker
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To think that the woman is dominated by man or man is dominated by woman comes from a kind of a complex and this complex must be given up. You are complimentary to each other. You decorate each other. Never talk ill of your husbands and never talk ill of your wives. This is the key of having an exclusive married life.
Nirmala Srivastava
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Words of wisdom for every photographer: 'Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking'. So said Goethe.
Bill Jay
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And these great natural rights may be reduced to three principal or primary articles: the right of personal security; the right of personal liberty; and the right of private property; because as there is no other known method of compulsion, or of abridging man's natural free will, but by an infringement or diminution of one or other of these important rights, the preservation of these, inviolate, may justly be said to include the preservation of our civil immunities in their largest and most extensive sense.
William Blackstone
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The Good Turn will educate the boy out of the groove of selfishness.
Baden Powell
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There is about wisdom a nobility and magnificence in the fact that she doesn't just fall to a person's lot, that each man owes her to his own efforts, that one doesn't go to anyone other than oneself to find her.
Seneca the Younger
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Each day, I would feel new wisdom and new intuition and I would follow that. Most everything I was doing was coming from that voice in my heart, which was affirmed by the ancient texts.
Brad Willis
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Serenity is not just an escape, but a precursor to acceptance, courage, wisdom, and change.
Bill Crawford
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Fear was a thing I understood all too well. It was a malignancy that had spread throughout my body until my mother, in her godly wisdom, had diagnosed and cauterized it.
Delores Phillips
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We must follow the wisdom of the Brundtland Report. We must pursue development that meets the needs of the present generation without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their needs.
Ban Ki-moon
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Wisdom denotes the pursuing of the best ends by the best means.
Francis Hutcheson
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Because we do not understand all the circumstances surrounding someone's suicide, the level of the person's accountability, and the penalty that the Lord, in his infinite love and wisdom, may see fit to inflict upon the person, we must avoid judgment. Regardless of those circumstances and the Lord's divinely imposed punishment, followers of Christ are to be loving and compassionate to those who are hurt by the act of suicide.
Brent L. Top