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- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Nov 07, 2020
Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.
- Defer
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes in international politics, the better part of wisdom is to defer dangers rather than try to eliminate them altogether instantly.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no wisdom of man that can change men or change nations; it is the power and wisdom of God that can.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
Kabbalah is all about change. It isn't about being proud of our good qualities: the wisdom is about transforming our darkness into light.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
The democratic system is premised on trust in the masses' wisdom. We believe that the collective is wiser than its parts and that, at the end of the day, it shall make the right choices and take the right decisions.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
It isn't right to judge strength as better than good wisdom.
- Nov 07, 2020
The sweetest of all sounds is praise.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
For myself, I think that those who cultivate wisdom and believe themselves able to instruct their fellow-citizens as to their interests are least likely to become partisans of violence. They are too well aware that to violence attach enmities and dangers, whereas results as good may be obtained by persuasion safely and amicably.
- Beautiful Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
During the long process of history, by relying on our own diligence, courage and wisdom, Chinese people have opened up a good and beautiful home where all ethnic groups live in harmony and fostered an excellent culture that never fades.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have sympathy for young people, for their growing pains, but I balk when these growing pains are pushed into the foreground, when you make these young people the only vehicles of life's wisdom.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom the source of virtue, and of fame, obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed.
- Soar
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- Nov 07, 2020
Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father's wisdom than he who has a great deal left him does to his father's care.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
This, and this alone, is Christianity, a universal holiness in every part of life, a heavenly wisdom in all our actions, not conforming to the spirit and temper of the world but turning all worldly enjoyments into means of piety and devotion to God.
- Little
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.
- Nation
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- Nov 07, 2020
The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Lord, bless me with the ability to achieve all that I can, and the wisdom to realize it doesn't all have to be by tomorrow!
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
Wisdom and goodness are twin-born, one heart must hold both sisters, never seen apart.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
Your law may be perfect, your knowledge of human affairs may be such as to enable you to apply it with wisdom and skill, and yet without individual acquaintance with men, their haunts and habits, the pursuit of the profession becomes difficult, slow, and expensive.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
Come, come, leave business to idlers, and wisdom to fools: they have need of 'em: wit be my faculty, and pleasure my occupation, and let father Time shake his glass.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
- Conversation
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- Nov 07, 2020
Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation.
- Expects
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- Nov 07, 2020
The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
However great an evil immorality may be, we must not forget that it is not without its beneficial consequences. It is only through extremes that men can arrive at the middle path of wisdom and virtue.
- Nov 07, 2020
One reason the human race has such a low opinion of itself is that it gets so much of its wisdom from writers.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that music opens portals and doorways into unknown sectors that it takes courage to leap into. I always think that there's a potential that we all have, and we can emerge, rise up to this potential, when necessary. We have to be fearless, courageous, and draw upon wisdom that we think we don't have.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
Teach your children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.
- Beauty
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the most beautiful passages of Rousseau is that in the sixth book of Confessions, where he describes the awakening in him of the literary sense. Of such wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of beauty, the love of art for its own sake, has most.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
What could be more lonely than to be enveloped in silence, to be the last of your people to speak your native tongue, to have no way to pass on the wisdom of the elders, to anticipate the promise of the children. This tragic fate is indeed the plight of someone somewhere roughly every two weeks.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The time of wisdom cannot be measured, and for me, wisdom is the garden. There is no time in the garden.
- Forgiveness
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you are bitter, you are like a dry leaf that you can just squash, and you can get blown away by the wind. There is much more wisdom in forgiveness.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
What the tech industry often forgets is that with age comes wisdom. Older workers are usually better at following direction, mentoring, and leading.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Just look at what is right in front of you. People don't do that. They see what they expect to see, what they want to see, what conventional wisdom tells them to see. They only hear the music and not the lyrics of human events.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most people see what they expect to see, what they want to see, what they've been told to see, what conventional wisdom tells them to see - not what is right in front of them in its pristine condition.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
A thought transfixed me: for the first time in my life, I saw the truth as it is set into song by so many poets, proclaimed as the final wisdom by so many thinkers. The truth - that love is the ultimate and the highest goal to which man can aspire.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
Knowledge is not just the preserve of the educated elite. Just because someone has not had a formal education, that does not mean he does not have wisdom and common sense.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
And I pray thee, loving Jesus, that as Thou hast graciously given me to drink in with delight the words of Thy knowledge, so Thou wouldst mercifully grant me to attain one day to Thee, the fountain of all wisdom and to appear forever before Thy face.
- Hawks
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- Nov 07, 2020
An owl is traditionally a symbol of wisdom, so we are neither doves nor hawks but owls, and we are vigilant when others are resting.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm grateful for my lines of wisdom. Of course, there are days when I think: 'Oh my gawd, I look a bit tired.' But I can pull it together if I have to.
- Fruit
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- Nov 07, 2020
Artemisinin... is a true gift from old Chinese medicine. But this is not the only instance in which the wisdom of Chinese medicine has borne fruit.
- Grace
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't have the strength or wisdom to get through a single day without guidance and grace from God.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
Community organizing is all about building grassroots support. It's about identifying the people around you with whom you can create a common, passionate cause. And it's about ignoring the conventional wisdom of company politics and instead playing the game by very different rules.
- Enforcing
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- Nov 07, 2020
We must work toward cyber doctrine that reflects the wisdom of free markets, private competition, and the important but limited role of government in establishing and enforcing the rule of law, honoring the rights of personal property, the benefits of free and fair trade, and the fundamental principles of liberty.
- Beginning
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not wise, but the beginning of wisdom is there; it's like relaxing into - and an acceptance of - things.
- Nov 07, 2020
I think in conventional magazine wisdom, you need to have a redesign every decade or so.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nothing energizes me more than to burrow myself under a pile of received wisdom and emerge triumphant with the truth.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The philosophical point is that our happiness and wellbeing is not based on incomes rising. This is not just the wisdom of sages but of ordinary people. Prosperity is more social and psychological: it's about identification, affiliation, participation in society and a sense of purpose.
- Nov 07, 2020
My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
- Imagination
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- Nov 07, 2020
To think the world therefore a general Bedlam, or place of madmen, and oneself a physician, is the most necessary point of present wisdom: an important imagination, and the way to happiness.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
In regard of the rich grace and wisdom of his love toward his people; for who sees not, but that it is a curse to be unready as these foolish virgins, who were therefore shut out.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
And, if we have any evidence that the wisdom which formed the plan is in the man, we have the very same evidence, that the power which executed it is in him also.
- Planned
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every indication of wisdom, taken from the effect, is equally an indication of power to execute what wisdom planned.
- Nov 07, 2020
A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
This age thinks better of a gilded fool Than of a threadbare saint in wisdom's school.
- Nov 07, 2020
Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action.
- Flowers
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- Nov 07, 2020
To embrace the whole world in friendship is wisdom. This wisdom is not changeable like the flowers that bloom and fade.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Conventional wisdom tells us to avoid taking unalterable action while at a low point in life. I have never been conventional.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020