712 private quotes tagged wisdom

“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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“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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“God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.” — Reinhold Niebuhr

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“Never say never, but the thought of electively cutting oneself is beyond my grasp, and I also object to it politically. Denying the lines on our faces makes a comment about age and wisdom I don't care to make.” — Debra Winger

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“I'm very accepting with my age. It's like notches on your belt: experience, wisdom, and a different kind of beauty. There comes a day when you've become comfortable in your skin.” — Zoe Saldana

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

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“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.” — William Congreve

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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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“Every day, every birthday candle I blow out, every penny I throw over my shoulder in a wishing well, every time my daughter says, 'Let's make a wish on a star,' there's one thing I wish for: wisdom.” — Rene Russo

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“In seeking wisdom thou art wise in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool.” — Lord Chesterfield

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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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“Man's wisdom is his best friend folly his worst enemy.” — William Temple

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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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“Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two.” — John Cheever

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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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“Central banks don't have divine wisdom. They try to do the best analysis they can and must be prepared to stand or fall by the quality of that analysis.” — Mary Kay Ash

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“The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.” — William James

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“Age is a terrible avenger. The lessons of life give you so much to work with, but by the time you've got all this great wisdom, you don't get to be young anymore.” — Elizabeth Wurtzel

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“In garden arrangement, as in all other kinds of decorative work, one has not only to acquire a knowledge of what to do, but also to gain some wisdom in perceiving what it is well to let alone.” — Gertrude Jekyll

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“There is a universal, intelligent, life force that exists within everyone and everything. It resides within each one of use as a deep wisdom, an inner knowing. We can access this wonderful source of knowledge and wisdom through our intuition, an inner sense that tells us what feels right and true for us at any given moment.” — Shakti Gawain

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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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“After the knowledge of, and obedience to, the will of God, the next aim must be to know something of His attributes of wisdom, power, and goodness as evidenced by His handiwork.” — James Prescott Joule

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“You can practice to attain knowledge, but you can't practice to attain wisdom.” — Herbie Hancock

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“Now all the knowledge and wisdom that is in creatures, whether angels or men, is nothing else but a participation of that one eternal, immutable and increased wisdom of God.” — Ralph Cudworth

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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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