Quotes with wisdom

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  • Euripides In goodness there are all kinds of wisdom.
    Euripides
    Greek tragedian and poet (480 - 406)
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  • Ben Carson In my own personal life, God plays a great role in the risk, because I pray before I go into the operating room for every case, and I ask him to give me wisdom, to help me to know what to do - and not only for operating, but for everything.
    Ben Carson
    American politician, and author (1951 - )
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  • Bruce Bueno de Mesquita In order to predict effectively, we need to use science. And the reason that we need to use science is because then we can reproduce what we're doing; it's not just wisdom or guesswork. And if we can predict, then we can engineer the future.
    Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
    American political scientist (1946 - )
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  • William Blake Innocence dwells with Wisdom, but never with Ignorance.
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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  • Margaret Fuller It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods.
    Margaret Fuller
    American writer (1810 - 1850)
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  • Henry David Thoreau It is characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Roger Ascham It is costly wisdom that is bought by experience.
    Roger Ascham
    English scholar and didactic writer (1515 - 1568)
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  • Thomas à Kempis It is no little wisdom for a man to keep himself in silence and in good peace when evil words are spoken to him, and to turn his heart to God and not to be troubled with man's judgment.
    Thomas à Kempis
    Dutch medieval Augustinian canon, writer and mystic (1380 - 1471)
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  • Sir Roger L'Estrange It may serve as a comfort to us, in all our calamities and afflictions, that he that loses anything and gets wisdom by it is a gainer by the loss.
    Sir Roger L'Estrange
    English journalist (1616 - 1702)
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  • Benjamin Cardozo Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances. Substitute statute for decision, and you shift the center of authority, but add no quota of inspired wisdom.
    Lecture at Yale University Law School (1923)
    Benjamin Cardozo
    American lawyer and jurist (1870 - 1938)
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  • Kahlil Gibran Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh, and the greatness which does not bow before children.
    Kahlil Gibran
    Libian painter and writer (1883 - 1931)
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  • Theodore I. Rubin Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.
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  • Philip James Bailey Kindness is wisdom.
    Philip James Bailey
    English Spasmodic poet (1816 - 1902)
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  • James Redfield Knowing our personal mission further enhances the flow of mysterious coincidences as we are guided toward our destinies. First we have a question, then dreams, daydreams, and intuitions lead us toward the answers, which usually are synchronistically provided by the wisdom of another human being.
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  • Alfred Lord Tennyson Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
    Alfred Lord Tennyson
    English poet (1809 - 1892)
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  • William Cowper Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; Wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
    William Cowper
    English poet (1731 - 1800)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Laurence Sterne Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of a story, which engages the passions.
    Laurence Sterne
    British author (1713 - 1768)
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  • Umberto Eco Love is wiser than wisdom.
    Umberto Eco
    Italian writer and critic (1932 - 2016)
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  • Arianna Huffington Mainstream media tend to just mouth the conventional wisdom, to see everything through the filter of right and left.
    Arianna Huffington
    Greek-American author, syndicated columnist, and businesswoman (1950 - )
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