Wisdom Quotes
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Wisdom consists of knowing how to distinguish the nature of trouble, and in choosing the lesser evil.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
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Was Jesus sleeping? There are mysteries of your wisdom and creation that we don't understand.
Craig Parker
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Innocence is the way you really give fun to others, create the fun part of it. The fun is created only through innocence and innocence is the only way you can really emit also the fun. Imagine this world without any fun, what would happen? But people are very much confused between fun and the pleasure. The pleasure is nice to begin with and horrible to end with. But fun is a treasure. Anything that is full of fun you remember all your life.
Nirmala Srivastava
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I suppose that people, using themselves and each other so much by words, are at least consistent in attributing wisdom to a still tongue.
William Faulkner
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God in His answers to prayer often says "Yes." Sometimes He says "Wait." Often He says "No." In any case, His will is done, and true faith is to believe that what happened has happened for the best. If one does not take that attitude, he is setting his personal desire against the wisdom of God. Oftentimes we confuse with faith merely that which we desire.
Norman Vincent Peale
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I, as a human, do not become the power or love or wisdom of God; I merely contain Him who is all these, and everything.
Norman Grubb
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Truthful speech provides, in the sphere of interpersonal communication, a parallel to wisdom in the sphere of private understanding.
Bhikkhu Bodhi
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One has to understand that we have to become a higher personality which is the spirit, which is the truth, which is the enlightened attention, and which is the joy.
Nirmala Srivastava
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There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance-that principle is contempt prior to investigation.
Herbert Spencer
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A dog is grateful for what is, which I am finding to be the soundest kind of wisdom and very good theology.
Carrie Newcomer
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Though wisdom is common, yet the many live as if they had a wisdom of their own.
Heraclitus
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The due administration of justice is the firmest pillar of good government, I have considered the first arrangement of the judicial department as essential to the happiness of the country, and to the stability of its political system.
George Washington
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So to have peace, the best way to put your mind right is to think of good things. Think of the flowers, not of the thorns. What good things others have done to you, what good things there are, what are the beautiful moments you have had, and count your blessings . Count your blessings, otherwise you cannot create peace.
Nirmala Srivastava
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Without loving and caring for others, most of us stand little chance of communing with God/the Divine Wisdom, no matter how many years we may spend in silent prayer.
Bo Lozoff
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Your innocence itself is a power and your innocence will definitely give you that wisdom by which you can solve all the problems without any difficulty.
Nirmala Srivastava
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If your mind is happy then you are happy anywhere you go.
When wisdom awakens within you, you will see Truth wherever you look.
Truth is all there is.
It's like when you learned how to read, you can then read anywhere you go.
Ajahn Chah
