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Tag: Wisdom

3 December 2020 Alex Grey

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.

3 December 2020 Gene Oliver

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.

3 December 2020 Eliot Spitzer

After 25-plus years as a lawyer, prosecutor, and defense attorney, I have developed a deep appreciation for both the wisdom of the law and the role that jurists play in framing the rights and responsibilities that define our society.

3 December 2020 Nelson Mandela

A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.

3 December 2020 Alexander Pope

Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.

3 December 2020 John Kenneth Galbraith

One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.

3 December 2020 Sheryl Crow

Your art kind of changes as you get older, by nature of the fact that you’re hopefully gaining wisdom and you’re starting to watch things with a better overview.

3 December 2020 Omar Sharif

He read his mind. He’s a strange sort of man, isn’t he? It’s not just the advice and the wisdom that he has.

3 December 2020 Friedrich Nietzsche

Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?

3 December 2020 Ray Kurzweil

Even by common wisdom, there seem to be both people and objects in my dream that are outside myself, but clearly they were created in myself and are part of me, they are mental constructs in my own brain.

3 December 2020 Baltasar Gracian

Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.

3 December 2020 Jeremy Collier

Knowledge is the consequence of time, and multitude of days are fittest to teach wisdom.

3 December 2020 Sophocles

If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom, you would not please him more than if you gave him a drink.

3 December 2020 Laurence Sterne

Sciences may be learned by rote, but wisdom not.

3 December 2020 K. D. Lang

Spend time reflecting on your emotional and physical existence and how that applies to the voice. You have to apply that wisdom and experience when you sing – it’s what comes through.

3 December 2020 Sophocles

Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

3 December 2020 China Mieville

But I do think it’s important to remember that writers do not have a monopoly of wisdom on their books. They can be wrong about their own books, they can often learn about their own books.

3 December 2020 Lin Yutang

Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.

3 December 2020 David Puttnam

There’s always a miasma of misinformation emerging from the higher education sector as to which are the ‘best’ courses to take. My advice would always be to ignore the perceived wisdom and look for the most reliable evidence on the ground.

3 December 2020 George Santayana

Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

3 December 2020 Thomas Reid

And, if we have any evidence that the wisdom which formed the plan is in the man, we have the very same evidence, that the power which executed it is in him also.

3 December 2020 Dora Russell

We have heeded no wisdom offering guidance.

3 December 2020 Carl Sandburg

Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen.

3 December 2020 Paul Ricoeur

Wisdom finds its literary expression in wisdom literature.

3 December 2020 Myrtle Reed

Silence and reserve will give anyone a reputation for wisdom.

3 December 2020 Charles Caleb Colton

Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance.

3 December 2020 will.i.am

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.

3 December 2020 Edgar R. Fiedler

He who lives by the crystal ball soon learns to eat ground glass.

3 December 2020 John F. Kennedy

When written in Chinese, the word ‘crisis’ is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.

3 December 2020 Christopher Reeve

What makes Superman a hero is not that he has power, but that he has the wisdom and the maturity to use the power wisely. From an acting point of view, that’s how I approached the part.

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