Quotes 221 till 240 of 361.
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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.
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.
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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The mintage of wisdom is to know that rest is rust, and that real life is love, laughter, and work.
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The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
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The most foolish kind of a book is a kind of leaky boat on the sea of wisdom; some of the wisdom will get in anyhow.
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The most manifest sign of wisdom is a continual cheerfulness; her state is like that in the regions above the moon, always clear and serene.
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The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.
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The old, like children, talk to themselves, for they have reached that hopeless wisdom of experience which knows that though one were to cry it in the streets to multitudes, or whisper it in the kiss to one's beloved, the only ears that can ever hear one's secrets are one's own!
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The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion.
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The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
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The only thing that we know is that we know nothing and that is the highest flight of human wisdom.
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The Prophet's words were true; The mouth of Ali is the golden door Of Wisdom. When his friends to Ali bore These words, he smiled and said: And should they ask The same until my dying day, the task Were easy; for the stream from Wisdom's well, Which God supplies, is inexhaustible.
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