Wisdom Quotes
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The reason we go to poetry is not for wisdom, but for the dismantling of wisdom.
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The free world knows, out of the bitter wisdom of experience, that vigilance and sacrifice are the price of liberty.
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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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As the fear of God is the beginning of wisdom, so the denial of God is the height of foolishness.
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To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly.
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I'll come to you with gifts of knowledge, wisdom and truth.
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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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What has history said of eminence without honor, wealth without wisdom, power and possessions without principle? The answer is reiterated in the overthrow of the mightiest empires of ancient times. Babylon, Persia, Greece, Rome! The four successive, universal powers of the past. What and where are they?
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Only your ascent is important. Once you ascend, everything is saved
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Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.
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Wisdom consists in being able to distinguish among dangers and make a choice of the least harmful.
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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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I believe we have become paralyzed, paralyzed by our desire to be loved. Now our founding fathers had the wisdom to know that social acceptance and popularity were fleeing, and that this country's principles needed to be rooted in strengths greater than the passions and the emotions of the times.
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Nature utters her voice in lessons of heavenly wisdom and eternal truth.
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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.
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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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Imagine that every person in the world is enlightened but you. They are all your teachers, each doing just the right things to help you learn perfect patience, perfect wisdom, perfect compassion.
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It is like the seed put in the soil - the more one sows, the greater the harvest.
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Don't taunt the alligator until after you've crossed the creek.
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We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.
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Wisdom is the daughter of experience.
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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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Information is not knowledge, and knowledge is not wisdom. Reading - even browsing - an old book can yield sustenance denied by a database search. Patience is a virtue, gluttony a sin.
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Habit is the nursery of errors.
