712 private quotes tagged wisdom

“There's the conventional wisdom, of which I have none, where you get a record deal, you get a publicist, you get a campaign, and you do the tour, but none of that adds up to things like nuance and subtlety and dynamic.” — Chris Robinson

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“Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.” — Felix Frankfurter

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“Preconceived notions are the locks on the door to wisdom.” — Merry Browne

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“It is costly wisdom that is bought by experience.” — Roger Ascham

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“We have heeded no wisdom offering guidance.” — Dora Russell

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“Mainstream media tend to just mouth the conventional wisdom, to see everything through the filter of right and left.” — Arianna Huffington

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“Pain is the doorway to wisdom and to truth.” — Keith Miller

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“I'm not a money manager, but I can tell you what the conventional wisdom is. The younger you are, the more risk you can take on.” — Maria Bartiromo

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“Dr. Johnson has said that the chief glory of a country arises from its authors. But then that is only as they are oracles of wisdom unless they teach virtue, they are more worthy of a halter than of the laurel.” — Jane Porter

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“I covered my face because they had taken my wisdom teeth out.” — Josh Brolin

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“To keep your secret is wisdom to expect others to keep it is folly.” — William Samuel Johnson

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“But in its final creation it was not the part of the Father's power to fail as though exhausted. It was not the part of His wisdom to waver in a needful matter through poverty of counsel.” — Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

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“Lord, give us the wisdom to utter words that are gentle and tender, for tomorrow we may have to eat them.” — Mo Udall

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“Nobility of spirit has more to do with simplicity than ostentation, wisdom rather than wealth, commitment rather than ambition.” — Riccardo Muti

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“This land, which we have watered with our tears and our blood, is now our mother country, and we are well satisfied to stay where wisdom abounds and gospel is free.” — Richard V. Allen

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“Every indication of wisdom, taken from the effect, is equally an indication of power to execute what wisdom planned.” — Thomas Reid

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“Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerves give to wisdom.” — Bernard De Voto

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“He whose wisdom cannot help him, gets no good from being wise.” — Quintus Ennius

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“Now it is time to turn to an older wisdom that, while respecting material comfort and security as a basic right of all, also recognises that many of the most valuable things in life cannot be measured.” — Michael D. Higgins

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“Words of wisdom are spoken by children at least as often as scientists.” — James Newman

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“Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.” — Lactantius

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“What I lack in energy, I have in wisdom.” — Marcia Cross

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“I have tried at every point to seek God's wisdom on the decisions I made, and I made it my business to speak up on behalf of the things God tells us are important to Him.” — Jesse Helms

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“But the Wisdom of God, which is His only-begotten Son, being in all respects incapable of change or alteration, and every good quality in Him being essential, and such as cannot be changed and converted, His glory is therefore declared to be pure and sincere.” — Origen

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“We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.” — Stephen Vincent Benet

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