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Tag: Wisdom

3 December 2020 John Jewel

But the law of God came from heaven indeed. God wrote it with his finger, it is the fountain of all wisdom, and therefore shall it continue for ever, and never have an end.

3 December 2020 George Santayana

The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy.

3 December 2020 Robert Duvall

Spending two years on my uncle’s ranch in Montana as a young man gave me the wisdom and the thrust to do westerns.

3 December 2020 Julia Ward Howe

Theology in general seems to me a substitution of human ingenuity for divine wisdom.

3 December 2020 Leonard Nimoy

Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end.

3 December 2020 Mary Astell

Unhappy is that Grandeur which makes us too great to be good and that Wit which sets us at a distance from true Wisdom.

3 December 2020 Rosemarie DeWitt

I don’t want to put a pause on the rest of my life I’m really enjoying getting older and the wisdom that comes from that.

3 December 2020 George A. Romero

As great as Ed is, the wisdom out here is that he can’t carry a movie. They’ll pay him $3 million to be the second banana in Julia Roberts things. But they won’t put up $3 million for an Ed Harris movie.

3 December 2020 Gabriel Marcel

Contemplation and wisdom are highest achievements and man is not totally at home with them.

3 December 2020 Mary Astell

Although it has been said by men of more wit than wisdom, and perhaps more malice than either, that women are naturally incapable of acting prudently, or that they are necessarily determined to folly, I must by no means grant it.

3 December 2020 Anton Chekhov

People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy.

3 December 2020 John Burroughs

The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.

3 December 2020 Adlai E. Stevenson

That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.

3 December 2020 Diogenes

Wise kings generally have wise counselors and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one.

3 December 2020 Ezra Stiles

The constitutions of Maryland and New York are founded in higher wisdom.

3 December 2020 James Madison

Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every loss which can be sustained from the more systematic policy of its wiser neighbors.

3 December 2020 Albert Einstein

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

3 December 2020 Sally Kirkland

I always told, Sandra Bullock was my student when she was younger, I always told her it’s important that we hold on to our insecurity, the wisdom of insecurity.

3 December 2020 Mayim Bialik

When you’re used to being prepared to reject conventional wisdom, it leaves you open to learn more.

3 December 2020 Dick Cheney

The plan was criticized by some retired military officers embedded in TV studios. But with every advance by our coalition forces, the wisdom of that plan becomes more apparent.

3 December 2020 Stanley Kunitz

Old myths, old gods, old heroes have never died. They are only sleeping at the bottom of our mind, waiting for our call. We have need for them. They represent the wisdom of our race.

3 December 2020 Samuel Johnson

To keep your secret is wisdom but to expect others to keep it is folly.

3 December 2020 Joey Adams

Never let a fool kiss you, or a kiss fool you.

3 December 2020 Joe Baca

We learned in World War II that no single nation holds a monopoly on wisdom, morality or right to power, but that we must fight for the weak and promote democracy.

3 December 2020 Herbert Hoover

Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

3 December 2020 Parker Stevenson

I do interviews because it’s a chance to be myself. I sometimes wonder what I could have to say that would be of any interest. I don’t have any great wisdom.

3 December 2020 Bernard De Voto

Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerves give to wisdom.

3 December 2020 Elizabeth McGovern

I’m someone who’s done the opposite of whatever the received wisdom is, to keep your career going into your 50s.

3 December 2020 Lord John Russell

A proverb is the wisdom of many and the wit of one.

3 December 2020 Arthur Conan Doyle

It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.

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