Wisdom Quotes
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If I could turn down the noise of my own will and choiceI could hear the truth of my life in a clear voice. I will bow down my head to the wisdom of my heart...
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God in his wisdom, to make and keep us humble and to teach us to walk by faith, has hidden from us almost everything that we should like to know about the providential purposes which he is working out in the churches and in our own lives.
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Yale is a crucible in American life for the accommodation of intellectual achievement, of wisdom, of refinement, with the democratic ideals of openness, of social justice and of equal opportunity.
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I have not lost my faith; and this I must attribute more to a miracle than to my own wisdom; more to Divine Providence than to my own virtue. Steadfastly, in fact from my earliest childhood, I have made this my prayer, "Lord God... grant me long life, and wisdom, and health of mind and body."
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Wisdom can only come through honest introspection.
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Roque...lined his men up and had them produce all the clothing, jewels, money, and other objects that they had stolen since the last time they had divided the spoils. Having made a hasty appraisal and reduced to terms of money those items that could not be divided, he split the whole into shares with such equity and exactitude that in not a single instance did he go beyond or fall short of a strict distributive justice. They were all well satisfied with the payment received, indeed they were quite well pleased; and Roque then turned to Don Quixote.
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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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The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.
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Boldness, and still boldness, was the only wisdom. To be cautious was to be rash.
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Old Marley was dead as a doornail... The wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile.
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There is one respect in which beasts show real wisdom... their quiet, placid enjoyment of the present moment.
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Of all the beautiful truths pertaining to the soul None is more gladdening or fruitful than to know You can regenerate and make yourself what you will.
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If the universe is so bad...how on earth did human beings ever come to attribute it to the activity of a wise and good Creator?
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It is easy for men to write and talk like philosophers, but to act with wisdom, there is the rub!
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Wisdom and love do not take up their abode in the same breast.
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We must recognize that personal freedoms diminish as the welfare state grows. The price of more and more public programs is less and less private freedom.
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Suffering should always open the door to wisdom.
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Wisdom makes light the darkness of ignorance.
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One thing I know, that I know nothing. This is the source of my wisdom.
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The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying.
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Fame and wealth without wisdom are unsafe possessions.
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Consider this point. It is a main point of true wisdom. Whenever there is an execution of purpose, there must be an agent.
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Be it known that Men of dull faculties and slight wisdom, They who cling proudly to signs, Cannot believe in this Dharma. Now I, joyfully and fearlessly, In the midst of the bodhisattvas Frankly casting aside my expedient devices, Merely preach the Unexcelled Path.
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Science tells us how to heal and how to kill; it reduces our death rate in retail and then kills us wholesale in war; but only wisdom - desire coordinated in the light of all experience - can tell us when to heal and when to kill.
