Quotes with wisdom

Quotes 341 till 360 of 361.

  • Sophocles Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.
    Sophocles
    Greek poet (496 - 406)
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  • Stephen R. Covey 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.
    Stephen R. Covey
    American educator, author and businessman (1932 - 2012)
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  • Octavio Paz Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.
    Octavio Paz
    Mexican Poet, Essayist (1914 - 1998)
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  • Oliver Goldsmith Wisdom makes a slow defense against trouble, though a sure one in the end.
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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  • Francis Quarles Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.
    Francis Quarles
    British poet (1592 - 1644)
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  • Herbert Hoover Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.
    Herbert Hoover
    American engineer, businessman and politician (1874 - 1964)
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  • Juvenal Wisdom overcomes fortune.
    Juvenal
    Roman poet
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  • Kahlil Gibran Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.
    Kahlil Gibran
    Libian painter and writer (1883 - 1931)
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  • Felix Frankfurter Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.
    Felix Frankfurter
    Austrian-American lawyer, professor, and jurist (1882 - 1965)
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  • John Cheever Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil - not the strength to choose between the two.
    John Cheever
    American writer (1912 - 1982)
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  • Confucius Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Yes! To this thought I hold with firm persistence; The last result of wisdom stamps it true; He only earns his freedom and existence Who daily conquers them anew.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Ben Carson You know, many people have said that I'm on the edge and I'm maverick for some of the big operations that I've done. I'm not at all. I pray; I ask God to give me wisdom, 'Should I do it?', guidance in terms of how to do it, who to consult with. All those kind of things are incredibly important.
    Ben Carson
    American politician, and author (1951 - )
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  • Jim Rohn You must learn to translate wisdom and strong feelings into labor.
    Jim Rohn
    American entrepreneur, author and motivational speaker (1930 - 2009)
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  • A. Lawrence Lowell Your aim will be knowledge and wisdom, not the reflected glamour of fame.
    A. Lawrence Lowell
    American educator and legal scholar (1856 - 1943)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Experience. The wisdom that enables us to recognize in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Ludwig Wittgenstein If a person tells me he has been to the worst places I have no reason to judge him; but if he tells me it was his superior wisdom that enabled him to go there, then I know he is a fraud.
    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    Austrian - English philosopher (1889 - 1951)
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  • Ludwig Wittgenstein It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed ''Wisdom.'' And then I know exactly what is going to follow: ''Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.''
    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    Austrian - English philosopher (1889 - 1951)
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  • Simone Weil Misfortunes leave wounds which bleed drop by drop even in sleep; thus little by little they train man by force and dispose him to wisdom in spite of himself. Man must learn to think of himself as a limited and dependent being; and only suffering teaches
    Simone Weil
    French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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  • Antoine de Saint-Exupéry More wisdom is latent in things as they are than in all the words men use.
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    French writer (1900 - 1944)
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