Wisdom Quotes
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For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later.
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Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.
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The fear of the Lord is the Beginning of Wisdom. This life is one great object lesson to practice on the principles of immortality and eternal life. Man grows with his higher aims. Let naught that is unholy enter here.
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Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being.
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You can observe a lot by watching.
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Wisdom is knowing what you don't know.
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By meditation we develop that strength within us, so automatically we start solving the problem.
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On one level, wisdom is nothing more than the ability to take your own advice.
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If he didn't have the calf situation, he would have practiced, ... He played extremely well. . . . The game was very physical and he got some hits. Quarterback-wise, the odds that we can go through the year like that and keep the guy healthy. . . . I hope we can keep him healthy.
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For those of you who pray, I ask that you pray that I will always judge with wisdom and integrity as a faithful servant of the law.
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My own philosophy is that one should share what wisdom he has, one should help others to help themselves and one should keep going despite heavy weather, for there is always a calm ahead.
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What I like about graduation speeches is that they're an opportunity for someone to make sense of their life and to impart that wisdom to someone else. It's like a sanctioned self-help moment.
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The reason we go to poetry is not for wisdom, but for the dismantling of wisdom.
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To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly.
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Initiative can neither be created nor delegated. It can only spring from the self-determining individual, who decides that the wisdom of others is not always better than his own.
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As the fear of God is the beginning of wisdom, so the denial of God is the height of foolishness.
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Don't taunt the alligator until after you've crossed the creek.
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There is often, in the affairs of government, more efficiency and wisdom in non-action than in action.
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Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.
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The true leader is a different sort; he seeks effective activity which has a truly beneficient purpose. He inspires others to follow in his wake, and holding aloft the torch of wisdom, leads the way for society to realize its genuinely great aspirations.
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It takes thousands of them to create an archive of human wisdom; only one to set a torch to it. Wouldn’t you have to say, then, that the work of the librarians is more typical of mortal behavior than the work of the arsonist?
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Through consciousness, our minds have the power to change our planet and ourselves. It is time we heed the wisdom of the ancient indigenous people and channel our consciousness and spirit to tend the garden and not destroy it.
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Wisdom is the daughter of experience.
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O God, help me to win, but in thy wisdom if thou willest me not to win, then O God, make me a good loser.
