Quotes 61 till 80 of 375.
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Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?
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Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.
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Education makes us more stupid than the brutes. A thousand voices call to us on every hand, but our ears are stopped with wisdom.
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Every speaker has a mouth; An arrangement rather neat. Sometimes it's filled with wisdom. Sometimes it's filled with feet.
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Few persons have sufficient wisdom to prefer censure, which is useful, to praise which deceives them.
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Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.
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Full of wisdom are the ordinations of fate.
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Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.
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Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.
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How earthy old people become, moldy as the grave! Their wisdom smacks of the earth. There is no foretaste of immortality in it. They remind me of earthworms and mole crickets.
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However great an evil immorality may be, we must not forget that it is not without its beneficial consequences. It is only through extremes that men can arrive at the middle path of wisdom and virtue.
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I acknowledge the privilege of being alive in a human body at this moment, endowed with senses, memories, emotions, thoughts, and the space of mind in its wisdom aspect.
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I am not the first Buddha who came upon Earth, nor shall I be the last. In due time, another Buddha will arise in the world - a Holy One, a supremely enlightened One, endowed with wisdom in conduct, auspicious, knowing the universe, an incomparable leader of men, a master of angels and mortals.
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I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.
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I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren't trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.
Source: De slinger van Foucault (2007) 60 -
I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
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I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere to go. My own wisdom, and that of all about me, seemed insufficient for the day.
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I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.
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I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.
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I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.
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