Wisdom Quotes
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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
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The free world knows, out of the bitter wisdom of experience, that vigilance and sacrifice are the price of liberty.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Wisdom consists in being able to distinguish among dangers and make a choice of the least harmful.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
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Man is wise and constantly in quest of more wisdom; but the ultimate wisdom, which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls forth faith rather than reason.
Hal Borland
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Whenever you argue with another wiser than yourself in order that others may admire your wisdom, they will discover your ignorance.
Saadi
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Eyes are at rest, the stars are setting.
Rabia Basri
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There are many who know many things, yet are lacking in wisdom.
Democritus
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Received wisdom is that if you spend time up front getting the design right, you avoid costs later. But the longer you spend getting the design right, the more your upfront costs are, and the longer it takes for the software to start earning.
Kent Beck
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Love, in the final analysis, is wisdom.
E. W. Kenyon
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All wisdom does not reside in Delhi.
P. Chidambaram
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The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
Isaac Asimov
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America's freedom of religion, and freedom from religion, offers every wisdom tradition an opportunity to address our soul-deep needs: Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, secular humanism, agnosticism and atheism among others.
Parker Palmer
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True happiness flows from the possession of wisdom and virtue and not from the possession of external goods.
Aristotle
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People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.
A. C. Benson
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Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom.
Sam Walton
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If you want to go east, don't go west.
Ramakrishna
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People spend too much time finding other people to blame, too much energy finding excuses for not being what they are capable of being, and not enough energy putting themselves on the line, growing out of the past, and getting on with their lives.
J. Michael Straczynski
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Each of us finds his unique vehicle for sharing with others his bit of wisdom.
Ram Dass
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They see me as being this Super Mom on TV who also can more than handle a difficult husband, and they assume I'm going to be just full of wisdom as a mother and wife myself.
Patricia Richardson
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I continue to believe, contrary to the given wisdom, that it's more interesting to have an album - or, indeed, an individual song - which has variety rather than homogeneity.
Peter Hammill
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Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.
Baltasar Gracian
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It is like the seed put in the soil - the more one sows, the greater the harvest.
Orison Swett Marden
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It is amazing that the wisdom of the chattering class to the Republicans is always, always, always 'Surrender your principles and agree with the Democrats.' That's been true for my entire lifetime.
Ted Cruz
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Many people have their reputations as reporters and analysts because they are on television, batting around conventional wisdom. A lot of these people have never reported a story.
Bob Woodward