Quotes 221 till 240 of 375.
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That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in the next.
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That's a valiant flea that dares eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.
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The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set some limit on infinite error.
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The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.
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The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.
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The doors of wisdom are never shut.
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The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is the knowledge of our own ignorance.
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The easiest ways to improve your appearance is with a really good moisturizer that will plump up your skin, a bit of concealer and a creamy blush on your cheek and lip. It's quick and easy and you'll look so much better.
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The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events.
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The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning; whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom.
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The extreme limit of wisdom -that's what the public calls madness.
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The future always comes as a surprise, but political wisdom consists in attempting at least some partial judgment of what that surprise may be. And for my part I cannot but believe that a main unexpected thing of the future is the return of Islam.
Source: The Great Heresies (1938) H. III -
The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed.
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The greatest wisdom doesn't know itself. The richest plan is not to have one.
Source: Liefdesmedicijn (2010) 66 -
The greatest wisdom is to realize one's lack of it
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The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill temper.
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The hours of folly are measured by the clock, but of wisdom no clock can measure.
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The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.
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The live in wisdom who see themselves in all and all in them, who have renounced every selfish desire and sense craving tormenting the heart.
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