Famous Quotes: Wisdom

Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it.
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Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.
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Perhaps religious conscience upsets the designs of those who feel that the highest wisdom and authority comes from government. But from the beginning, this nation trusted in God, not man. Religious liberty is the first freedom in our Constitution.
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It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and the Cross of the Legion of Honor.
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Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.
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The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.
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Start with God - the first step in learning is bowing down to God; only fools thumb their noses at such wisdom and learning.
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I don't trust what this life has given me.
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In life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by.
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Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of face within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.
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The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
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Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.
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This society in which we live is radically changing. What previous generations saw as evil is now embraced as being good. It is a dangerous and slippery slope upon which we stand when we reject what Solomon called the beginning of wisdom - the fear of God.
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Many spiritual teachers - in Buddhism, in Islam - have talked about first-hand experience of the world as an important part of the path to wisdom, to enlightenment.
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In societies where mature workers are respected and where their wisdom is respected, everybody benefits. Workers are more engaged and productive. Their health is better. They live longer.
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By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.
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We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
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Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.
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It takes a lot of courage to face up to things you can't do because we feed ourselves so much denial.
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I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.
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