Wisdom Quotes
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Let wise men piece the world together with wisdom Or poets with holy magic. Hey-di-ho.
Wallace Stevens
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Be an example in your Church activity-honor the Sabbath day, attend your meetings, observe the Word of Wisdom, pay your tithes and offerings, support your leaders, and otherwise keep the commandments. Serve cheerfully and gratefully in every calling you receive. Live worthy of a temple recommend and enjoy the sweet, sacred spirit that comes from frequent temple attendance.
Ezra Taft Benson
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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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There is no wisdom in useless and hopeless sorrow; but there is something in it so like virtue, that he who is wholly without it cannot be loved.
Samuel Johnson
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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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People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.
A. C. Benson
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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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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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True happiness flows from the possession of wisdom and virtue and not from the possession of external goods.
Aristotle
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It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
Walter Lippmann
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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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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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Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom.
Sam Walton
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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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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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Each of us finds his unique vehicle for sharing with others his bit of wisdom.
Ram Dass
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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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The true Wisdom is in recognizing our own ignorance.
Socrates
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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.
R. Buckminster Fuller
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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
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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 isn't right to judge strength as better than good wisdom.
Xenophanes
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There's only one pure desire and that is to be one with the Divine.
Nirmala Srivastava