Wisdom Quotes

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In the deepest night of trouble and sorrow God gives us so much to be thankful for that we need never cease our singing. With… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Unlike much of orthodox medicine, alternative approaches to healing typically honor the wisdom and capability of the human body. Their goal is often to support… — John Robbins
Happy will it be for ourselves, and most honorable for human nature, if we have wisdom and virtue enough to set so glorious an example… — Alexander Hamilton
Let the spirit out - Discard all thoughts of reward, all hopes of praise and fears of blame, all awareness of one's bodily self. And,… — Bruce Lee
Illness is the most heeded of doctors: to goodness and wisdom we only make promises; pain we obey. — Marcel Proust
Wisdom is not a question of learning facts with the mind; it can only be acquired through perfection of living. — Nilakanta Sri Ram
Wisdom is not a matter of study, but a matter of living, and of sure action which rises above opposites. — Nilakanta Sri Ram
The Wisdom is old, the Koran is old, the Bible is old. Disagreements? Work 'em out. — Paul Simon
Will not perhaps the temporal power of Islam return and with it the menace of an armed Mohammedan world, which will shake off the domination… — Hilaire Belloc
Therefore let us repent and pass from ignorance to knowledge, from foolishness to wisdom, from licentiousness to self-control, from injustice to righteousness, from godlessness to… — Clement of Alexandria
Our true and genuine wisdom can be summed up as the knowledge of God and the knowledge of ourselves. — John Calvin
A grandmother is a person with too much wisdom to let that stop her from making a fool of herself over her grandchildren. — Phil Moss
Learn, earn, return - these are the 3 phases of life. Jack Balousek There is no more noble occupation in the world than to assist… — Alan Loy McGinnis
Some folks are wise and some are otherwise. — Tobias Smollett
Gorbachev's stance contrasts admirably with the policy of the sainted Abraham Lincoln, who used massive force and mass murder to force the seceding Southern states… — Murray Rothbard
It is never for their wisdom that one loves the wisest. — Hester Lynch Piozzi
The rich man can afford to be happy and wise; the poor man is wiser still, for he understands sadness. — William Henry Chase
The first mark of intelligence, to be sure, is not to start things; the second mark of intelligence is to pursue to the end what… — Franklin Edgerton
Anger may glance into the breast of a wise man, but rests only in the bosom of fools. — David C. Stark
Life is so generous a giver but we, judging its gifts by their covering, cast them away as ugly or heavy or hard. Remove the… — Giovanni Giocondo

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