712 private quotes tagged wisdom

“Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.” — Abigail Adams

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“I sought my father in the world of the black musician, because it contained wisdom, experience, sadness and loneliness. I was not ever interested in the music of boys. From my youngest years, I was interested in the music of men.” — Eric Clapton

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“Life is the only real counselor wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.” — Edith Wharton

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“Our wisdom comes from our experience, and our experience comes from our foolishness.” — Sacha Guitry

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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.” — Bell Hooks

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“What if Barack Obama established a Presidential Advisory Committee that would meet once every couple of months, bringing together the former presidents for a conference in order to seek their collective wisdom? There is a wealth of experience in former presidents that generally goes untapped.” — Tony Campolo

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“The wisdom and experience of older people is a resource of inestimable worth. Recognizing and treasuring the contributions of older people is essential to the long-term flourishing of any society.” — Daisaku Ikeda

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“Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only.” — Samuel Smiles

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“The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom.” — Samuel Smiles

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“Putting is like wisdom - partly a natural gift and partly the accumulation of experience.” — Arnold Palmer

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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.” — Samuel Smiles

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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 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 faith rather than reason.” — Hal Borland

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“A few years ago you couldn't go from TV to film. It was like a 'no no' but I believe when you find a plan and purpose that God has for your life, there's not anything man can do to you. Especially when your faith is not really standing in the wisdom of man, you're really standing in the wisdom of God.” — Derek Luke

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“Losing faith in your own singularity is the start of wisdom, I suppose also the first announcement of death.” — Peter Conrad

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“Clearly older women and especially older women who have led an active life or elder women who successfully maneuver through their own family life have so much to teach us about sharing, patience, and wisdom.” — Alice Walker

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“The seven wise men of Greece, so famous for their wisdom all the world over, acquired all that fame, each of them, by a single sentence consisting of two or three words.” — Robert South

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“Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.” — Francis of Assisi

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“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.” — William Tecumseh Sherman

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“It is wisdom in prosperity, when all is as thou wouldn't have it, to fear and suspect the worst.” — Desiderius Erasmus

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“We simply can no longer afford to deny the full potential of one half of the population. The world needs to tap into the talent and wisdom of women. Whether the issue is food security, economic recovery, health, or peace and security, the participation of women is needed now more than ever.” — Michelle Bachelet

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“A man of strength and wisdom, John Paul became an inspiration to generations of both Catholics and non-Catholics throughout the world by encouraging freedom, promoting peace and respecting all faiths.” — Greg Walden

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“I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.” — Pietro Aretino

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“I have no agenda except to be funny. Neither I or the writers profess to offer any worldly wisdom.” — Julia Louis-Dreyfus

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“The future has already arrived. It's just not evenly distributed yet.” — William Gibson

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