712 private quotes tagged wisdom

“Wisdom is knowing when you can't be wise.” — Paul Engle

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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.” — Frederick William Robertson

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“The left has come to regard common sense - the traditional wisdom and folkways of the community - as an obstacle to progress and enlightenment.” — Christopher Lasch

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“I always see where I didn't do things the right way. I only see the heavy lifting. That's a bit of my wisdom, if you want to call it that.” — Vera Wang

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“Saudi Arabia is a puritanical state that claims a monopoly of wisdom and virtue.” — James Buchan

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“Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness.” — Cyril Connolly

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“Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense.” — Julian Casablancas

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“Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.” — John Updike

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“I acknowledge the privilege of being alive in a human body at this moment, endowed with senses, memories, emotions, thoughts, and the space of mind in its wisdom aspect.” — Alex Grey

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“It has become part of the accepted wisdom to say that the twentieth century was the century of physics and the twenty-first century will be the century of biology.” — Freeman Dyson

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“Focus on the mind and the soul. Read. Study. Enrol in a course of lectures. Pray. Become a member of a religious congregation. Study the Bible or other ancient works of wisdom.” — Jonathan Sacks

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“If you have a vaccine or an antidote that people can benefit from, you're not going to want to keep it to yourself. You're going to want to spread that wisdom or whatever to as many people as you can, so everybody can benefit from it.” — will.i.am

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“The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practiced, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good.” — Pierre Charron

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“Spending two years on my uncle's ranch in Montana as a young man gave me the wisdom and the thrust to do westerns.” — Robert Duvall

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“If an idea is indeed sensible, it will eventually become just part of the accepted wisdom.” — Nigel Farage

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“Silence and reserve will give anyone a reputation for wisdom.” — Myrtle Reed

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“He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.” — Evelyn Waugh

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“There is a trade off - as you grow older you gain wisdom but you lose spontaneity.” — Kenny Rogers

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“One part of wisdom is knowing what you don't need anymore and letting it go.” — Jane Fonda

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“It may almost be a question whether such wisdom as many of us have in our mature years has not come from the dying out of the power of temptation, rather than as the results of thought and resolution.” — Anthony Trollope

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“The weak have remedies, the wise have joys superior wisdom is superior bliss.” — Edward Young

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“The clouds may drop down titles and estates, and wealth may seek us, but wisdom must be sought.” — Edward Young

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“We all admire the wisdom of people who come to us for advice.” — Arthur Helps

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“The plan was criticized by some retired military officers embedded in TV studios. But with every advance by our coalition forces, the wisdom of that plan becomes more apparent.” — Dick Cheney

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“Many people have their reputations as reporters and analysts because they are on television, batting around conventional wisdom. A lot of these people have never reported a story.” — Bob Woodward

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