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Tag: Wisdom

3 December 2020 Riccardo Muti

Nobility of spirit has more to do with simplicity than ostentation, wisdom rather than wealth, commitment rather than ambition.

3 December 2020 Susan Orlean

I don’t turn to greeting cards for wisdom and advice, but they are a fine reflection of the general drift of the culture.

3 December 2020 Jane Fonda

One part of wisdom is knowing what you don’t need anymore and letting it go.

3 December 2020 M. Scott Peck

Discipline is wisdom and vice versa.

3 December 2020 Edward Young

The clouds may drop down titles and estates, and wealth may seek us, but wisdom must be sought.

3 December 2020 Elizabeth Gaskell

Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.

3 December 2020 Alice Walker

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.

3 December 2020 Shakti Gawain

When I wrote Living in the Light, I wanted to share about how I live my own life and to encourage people to tap into their own inner wisdom.

3 December 2020 Francis Quarles

Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

3 December 2020 Henry David Thoreau

It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.

3 December 2020 Nina Totenberg

I actually think with age comes some level of wisdom.

3 December 2020 Doug Larson

Wisdom is the quality that keeps you from getting into situations where you need it.

3 December 2020 Marcel Proust

We don’t receive wisdom we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.

3 December 2020 Ralph Waldo Emerson

Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.

3 December 2020 Reinhold Niebuhr

The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it.

3 December 2020 Pierre Charron

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.

3 December 2020 Billy Ray Cyrus

I always prayed that God would give me the wisdom and the vision to do the things on this earth that I was supposed to do to express His life and love and His will.

3 December 2020 Martin Henry Fischer

Knowledge is a process of piling up facts wisdom lies in their simplification.

3 December 2020 Elizabeth Gilbert

I don’t think you can come into your wisdom until you have made mistakes on your own skin and felt them in reality of your own life.

3 December 2020 George Bernard Shaw

Beware of false knowledge it is more dangerous than ignorance.

3 December 2020 Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

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.

3 December 2020 Avery Brooks

Knowledge is going to make you stronger. Knowledge is going to let you control your life. Knowledge is going to give you the wisdom to teach their children. Knowledge is the thing that makes you smile in the face of disaster.

3 December 2020 Sacha Guitry

Our wisdom comes from our experience, and our experience comes from our foolishness.

3 December 2020 Adam Clarke

To suppose more than one supreme Source of infinite wisdom, power, and all perfections, is to assert that there is no supreme Being in existence.

3 December 2020 Francis Bacon

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

3 December 2020 Saadi

Whenever you argue with another wiser than yourself in order that others may admire your wisdom, they will discover your ignorance.

3 December 2020 Rowan D. Williams

And when the world is created, it is created in such a way that those eternal objects of God’s loving wisdom become actualities – interacting with one another, relating to God in the finite realm.

3 December 2020 Ralph Waldo Emerson

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

3 December 2020 Aesop

Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.

3 December 2020 Cat Cora

Even when you have doubts, take that step. Take chances. Mistakes are never a failure – they can be turned into wisdom.

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