Wisdom Quotes
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The beauty of self realization lies in secretly working out within you everything that is virtuous, that is beautiful, that is joyful.
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A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.
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Knowledge is power but only wisdom is liberty.
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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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Tell the angel who will watch over your life to pray now and then for a man who, like Satan, believed himself for an instant to be equal to God, but who realized in all humility that supreme power and wisdom are in the hands of God alone.
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Let the people know my wisdom, fill the land with smoke
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Dignity and quiet joy in all that we do are the expression of perfect concentration and perfect wisdom.
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Wisdom delights in water; love delights in hills. Wisdom is stirring; love is quiet. Wisdom is merry; love grows old.
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Bestow upon me, O Lord my God, understanding to know thee, diligence to seek thee, wisdom to find thee, and a faithfulness that may finally embrace thee.
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Love should have no fear. It should have just free love, without any fear, without any aggression; enjoy that pure love.
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To know that which lies before us in daily life is the prime wisdom.
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I'd love to spend more time on the Isle of Man. I love the anonymity of putting on a boiler suit and going down to buy parts for the compressor. And Norman Wisdom's a neighbour; I salute him occasionally.
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One should be prepared to surrender completely, absolutely to the will of God. Whatever He does is for our good.
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If we buy a plant of a horticulturist we ask him many questions as to its needs, whether it thrives best in sunshine or in shade, whether it needs much or little water, what degrees of heat or cold; but when we hold in our arms for the first time a being of infinite possibilities, in whose wisdom may rest the destiny of a nation, we take it for granted that the laws governing its life, health, and happiness are intuitively understood, that there is nothing new to be learned in regard to it.
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The greatest wisdom is to get to know oneself.
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I think either party would have seen the wisdom in bailing out the American automobile industry, because one job in ten in the United States is either directly or indirectly connected to the automobile industry. You just could not let these companies go down.
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Surely what a man does when he is taken off his guard is the best evidence for what sort of man he is.
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In love you don't doubt, no question. Only when you think you doubt, but when you love you don't doubt, you just love because you enjoy love. And that's why love is joy and joy is love.
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Everyone has his own conscience, and there should be no rules about how a conscience should function.
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Wisdom is never dear, provided the article be genuine.
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No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.
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Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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Though one should live a hundred years without wisdom and control, yet better, indeed, is a single day's life of one who is wise and meditative.
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The right to work, I had assumed, was the most precious liberty that man possesses. Man has indeed as much right to work as he has to live, to be free, to own property.
