Quotes 23841 till 23860 of 25152.
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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
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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 lies in recognizing the resemblance among things which differ and the difference between things which are alike.
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Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.
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With a contained environment, there is the promise of friction. And that is where the drama comes from.
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With a fresh start, I hope it'll work out good. I know the whole Fox story and how he came over here and had a great year for them. I'm hoping that's what it'll be - fresh start, new faces, new team, new city. I'm looking forward to getting out there.
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