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Tag: Wisdom

3 December 2020 Anatole France

I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.

3 December 2020 Nelson Mandela

If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.

3 December 2020 William Cowper

Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.

3 December 2020 Leo Buscaglia

If I don’t have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance.

3 December 2020 Jason Aldean

I don’t think I really have any wisdom. Stay out of trouble. Good luck. Stay away from women because they will burn you, haha.

3 December 2020 Confucius

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest Second, by imitation, which is easiest and third by experience, which is the bitterest.

3 December 2020 Arthur Helps

Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away.

3 December 2020 Eric Ries

You know how people always talk about how vision is the key to entrepreneurship and perseverance and really seeing what other people don’t see? We can actually redeem a fair amount of that folk wisdom.

3 December 2020 Rod Taylor

I am a poor student sitting at the feet of giants, yearning for their wisdom and begging for lessons that might one day make me a complete artist, so that if all goes well, I may one day sit beside them.

3 December 2020 Walter Lippmann

It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.

3 December 2020 Roone Arledge

The current wisdom now is that if the three networks are covering the news the same way the difference is the anchor people. I think that won’t be true in the future.

3 December 2020 Joseph Roux

Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.

3 December 2020 Pindar

Even wisdom has to yield to self-interest.

3 December 2020 Joseph Barber Lightfoot

This fear of the Lord is indeed the beginning of wisdom. This consciousness of sin is the straight pathway to heaven.

3 December 2020 Ralph Waldo Emerson

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

3 December 2020 Khalil Gibran

The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.

3 December 2020 Anthony Trollope

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.

3 December 2020 Mason Cooley

At sixty, I know little more about wisdom than I did at thirty, but I know a great deal more about folly.

3 December 2020 Venerable Bede

And I pray thee, loving Jesus, that as Thou hast graciously given me to drink in with delight the words of Thy knowledge, so Thou wouldst mercifully grant me to attain one day to Thee, the fountain of all wisdom and to appear forever before Thy face.

3 December 2020 Lucille Ball

In life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by.

3 December 2020 Elizabeth George

Writing is no dying art form in America because most published writers here accept the wisdom and the necessity of encouraging the talent that follows in their footsteps.

3 December 2020 Homer

In youth and beauty, wisdom is but rare!

3 December 2020 Charles Caleb Colton

Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.

3 December 2020 Robert Kennedy

Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.

3 December 2020 Henry Ward Beecher

What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young trees growing upon the roots of the old trunks that have crumbled away.

3 December 2020 Richard Le Gallienne

A wholesome oblivion of one’s neighbours is the beginning of wisdom.

3 December 2020 Shakti Gawain

We all have within us a deep wisdom, but sometimes we don’t know we have it.

3 December 2020 Peter Guber

Every journey that is successful has culs-de-sac and speed bumps. I carry a wisdom gene through my life through the good, the bad, and the ugly.

3 December 2020 Francis Bacon

A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.

3 December 2020 Charles Stanley

Earthly wisdom is doing what comes naturally. Godly wisdom is doing what the Holy Spirit compels us to do.

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