712 private quotes tagged wisdom

“My past is my wisdom to use today... my future is my wisdom yet to experience. Be in the present because that is where life resides.” — Gene Oliver

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“Someday in the distant cyborg future, when our internal and external memories fully merge, we may come to possess infinite knowledge. But that's not the same thing as wisdom.” — Joshua Foer

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“Without wisdom, the future has no meaning, no valuable purpose.” — Herbie Hancock

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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.” — King Solomon

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“God in His wisdom has decided that He will reward no works but His own.” — Johannes Tauler

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“Don't follow any advice, no matter how good, until you feel as deeply in your spirit as you think in your mind that the counsel is wise.” — Joan Rivers

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“In life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by.” — Lucille Ball

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“Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. People have the right to expect that these wants will be provided for by this wisdom.” — Jimmy Carter

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“Always keep your mind as bright and clear as the vast sky, the great ocean, and the highest peak, empty of all thoughts. Always keep your body filled with light and heat. Fill yourself with the power of wisdom and enlightenment.” — Morihei Ueshiba

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“In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.” — Arthur Schopenhauer

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“Through mutual understanding, sincerity and goodwill, and with great wisdom and broad views, the leaders on both sides should jointly initiate new opportunities for peace, stability, cooperation and mutual benefit.” — Chen Shui-bian

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“I love being. There's so much wisdom in it. You wake up in the morning and you think, Hey, isn't it great just being?” — Gwyneth Paltrow

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“There is this difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so but he that thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.” — Charles Caleb Colton

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“The Divine of the Lord in heaven is love, for the reason that love is receptive of all things of heaven, such as peace, intelligence, wisdom and happiness.” — Emanuel Swedenborg

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“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.” — Thomas Traherne

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“To comprehend the Wisdom of this Injunction the better, and explain the Duty before us, it should be considered, that Government is the only Means by which human Happiness can be attained.” — Charles Inglis

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“History is filled with tragic examples of wars that result from diplomatic impasse. Whether in our local communities or in international relations, the skillful use of our communicative capacities to negotiate and resolve differences is the first evidence of human wisdom.” — Daisaku Ikeda

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“God the Father, the supreme Architect, had already built this cosmic home we behold, the most sacred temple of His godhead, by the laws of His mysterious wisdom.” — Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

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“All human wisdom is summed up in two words wait and hope.” — Alexandre Dumas

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“While many of us never knew Ronald Reagan personally, we felt close to him because we shared his lighthearted sense of humor, admired his uncommon virtue, and were moved by his remarkable wisdom.” — Randy Forbes

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“Imagination allows us to escape the predictable. It enables us to reply to the common wisdom that we cannot soar by saying, 'Just watch!'” — Bill Bradley

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“If you have the guts to keep making mistakes, your wisdom and intelligence leap forward with huge momentum.” — Holly Near

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“To acquire knowledge, one must study but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.” — Marilyn vos Savant

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“I'll come to you with gifts of knowledge, wisdom and truth.” — Barry White

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“Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.” — Jimi Hendrix

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