Famous Quotes: Wisdom

Doubt the conventional wisdom unless you can verify it with reason and experiment.
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We learned in World War II that no single nation holds a monopoly on wisdom, morality or right to power, but that we must fight for the weak and promote democracy.
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Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every loss which can be sustained from the more systematic policy of its wiser neighbors.
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It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.
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Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.
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It is good even for old men to learn wisdom.
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Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom.
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Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action.
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The Divine wisdom has given us prayer, not as a means whereby to obtain the good things of earth, but as a means whereby we learn to do without them; not as a means whereby we escape evil, but as a means whereby we become strong to meet it.
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Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.
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Old myths, old gods, old heroes have never died. They are only sleeping at the bottom of our mind, waiting for our call. We have need for them. They represent the wisdom of our race.
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Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness.
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After all my possessions had been burned, God gave me the wisdom to return to Jerusalem.
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Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
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I don't think you can come into your wisdom until you have made mistakes on your own skin and felt them in reality of your own life.
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True wisdom listens more, talks less and can get along with all types of people.
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Unhappy is that Grandeur which makes us too great to be good; and that Wit which sets us at a distance from true Wisdom.
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There is a universal, intelligent, life force that exists within everyone and everything. It resides within each one of use as a deep wisdom, an inner knowing. We can access this wonderful source of knowledge and wisdom through our intuition, an inner sense that tells us what feels right and true for us at any given moment.
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What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?
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The future has already arrived. It's just not evenly distributed yet.
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