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" Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom. "
Francis Bacon
Nourishes
Sleep
Silence
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" While I have no empirical evidence to back this up, I bet that the number of homosexual people per thousand has not fluctuated all that much over the centuries. I do not believe the dented wisdom my father used to extol, that homosexuality was a sure sign of a civilization in decline. "
Henry Rollins
Believe
Back
Wisdom
" Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul. "
Francis Bacon
Soul
Out
Patience
" I think in conventional magazine wisdom, you need to have a redesign every decade or so. "
Timothy White
Wisdom
You
Think
" As you walk in God's divine wisdom, you will surely begin to see a greater measure of victory and good success in your life. "
Joseph Prince
Wisdom
Walk
God
" The seat of knowledge is in the head; of wisdom, in the heart. We are sure to judge wrong, if we do not feel right. "
William Hazlitt
Knowledge
Judge
Heart
" Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom. "
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wisdom
Goodness
Root
" A promise made is a debt unpaid. "
Robert W. Service
Debt
Wisdom
Unpaid
" To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly. "
Samuel Johnson
Others
Secret
Wisdom
" To comprehend the Wisdom of this Injunction the better, and explain the Duty before us, it should be considered, that Government is the only Means by which human Happiness can be attained. "
Charles Inglis
Better
Government
Happiness
" Self-suggestion makes you master of yourself. "
W. Clement Stone
You
Makes
Master
" The problem lies with us: we've become addicted to experts. We've become addicted to their certainty, their assuredness, their definitiveness, and in the process, we have ceded our responsibility, substituting our intellect and our intelligence for their supposed words of wisdom. "
Noreena Hertz
Us
Intelligence
Wisdom
" It is while you are patiently toiling at the little tasks of life that the meaning and shape of the great whole of life dawn on you. "
Phillips Brooks
Wisdom
You
Life
" Nothing is pleasant that is not spiced with variety. "
Francis Bacon
Nothing
Variety
Pleasant
" I know that inner wisdom is more precious than wealth. The more you spend it, the more you gain. "
Oprah Winfrey
You
Wealth
Precious
" Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only. "
Samuel Smiles
Life
Wisdom
School
" A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow. "
Charlotte Bronte
Restless
Pillow
Makes
" Sometimes I am happy and sometimes not. I am, after all, a human being, you know. And I am glad that we are sometimes happy and sometimes not. You get your wisdom working by having different emotions. "
Yoko Ono
Happy
Wisdom
I Am Happy
" In the end, the real wisdom of menopause may be in questioning how fun or even sane this chore wheel called modern life actually is. "
Sandra Tsing Loh
Life
Wisdom
Fun
" Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done. "
Amelia Earhart
Someone
Wisdom
You
" 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
Power
Heart
Story
" Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows. "
Alfred North Whitehead
Wisdom
Knowledge
Grows
" I'm a member of the 1960s generation. We didn't have any wisdom. "
P. J. O'Rourke
Wisdom
1960s
Any
" Perhaps religious conscience upsets the designs of those who feel that the highest wisdom and authority comes from government. But from the beginning, this nation trusted in God, not man. Religious liberty is the first freedom in our Constitution. "
Mitt Romney
Beginning
Wisdom
Man
" We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do. "
Francis Bacon
Much
Write
Ought
" Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired. "
Plautus
Wisdom
Age
Capacity
" Humanity's legacy of stories and storytelling is the most precious we have. All wisdom is in our stories and songs. A story is how we construct our experiences. At the very simplest, it can be: 'He/she was born, lived, died.' Probably that is the template of our stories - a beginning, middle, and end. This structure is in our minds. "
Doris Lessing
Wisdom
Beginning
End
" We all have within us a deep wisdom, but sometimes we don't know we have it. "
Shakti Gawain
Sometimes
Within
Wisdom
" It is wisdom in prosperity, when all is as thou wouldn't have it, to fear and suspect the worst. "
Desiderius Erasmus
Prosperity
Worst
Wisdom
" Nobility of spirit has more to do with simplicity than ostentation, wisdom rather than wealth, commitment rather than ambition. "
Riccardo Muti
Commitment
Ambition
Simplicity
" I reject most conventional wisdom. "
Rush Limbaugh
Most
Wisdom
Conventional Wisdom