Quotes 25041 till 25060 of 26406.
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Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.
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Wisdom happens through meditation, and bliss also happens through meditation. Both the flowers bloom on the same branch.
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Wisdom hath her excesses, and no less need of moderation than folly.
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Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it.
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Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.
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Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.
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Wisdom is your perspective on life, your sense of balance, your understanding of how the various parts and principles apply and relate to each other. It embraces judgment, discernment, comprehension. It is a gestalt or oneness, and integrated wholeness.
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Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.
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Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.
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Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil - not the strength to choose between the two.
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Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.
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Wise and humane management of the patient is the best safeguard against infection.
― Florence Nightingale
English social reformer, founder of modern nursing and statistician (1820 - 1910) -
Wise anger is like fire from a flint: there is great ado to get it out; and when it does come, it is out again immediately.
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Wise men are not wise at all hours, and will speak five times from their taste or their humor, to once from their reason.
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Wise men never sit and wail their loss, but cheerily seek how to redress their harms.
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Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent.
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Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.
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Wit and Humor - if any difference, it is in duration - lightning and electric light. Same material, apparently; but one is vivid, and can do damage - the other fools along and enjoys elaboration.
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Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it; most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in themselves. A man must have a good share of wit himself to endure a great share of it in another.
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Wit is the most rascally, contemptible, beggarly thing on the face of the earth.
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