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" You should never ask a horse or an actor to do something they cannot do. Wisdom will teach you to find out what they can do and then make it easy for them. "
Tommy Lee Jones
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" The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it. "
Reinhold Niebuhr
Life
Achievement
Serenity
" There is no greater privilege in living than bringing a tiny new human being into the world and then trying to raise him or her properly during the next eighteen years. Doing that job right requires all the intelligence, wisdom, and determination you will be able to muster from day to day. "
James Dobson
Wisdom
Day
Determination
" The tactic of leading people into... a war that doesn't make any sense by telling them they are under attack, and if they raise any objection they're unpatriotic, is a very old tactic. And it doesn't intimidate me. "
Tommy Lee Jones
" The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing. "
Socrates
True
Know
Nothing
" Pure, holy simplicity confounds all the wisdom of this world and the wisdom of the flesh. "
Francis of Assisi
Simplicity
Pure
Holy
" To light one candle to God and another to the Devil is the principle of wisdom. "
Jose Bergamin
God
Wisdom
Light
" It is better to rust out than wear out. "
Edwin Markham
Rust
Better
Wisdom
" Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom. "
Walter Benjamin
Real
Real Life
Life
" The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk. "
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Wisdom
Walk
Should
" If an idea is indeed sensible, it will eventually become just part of the accepted wisdom. "
Nigel Farage
Wisdom
Indeed
Idea
" My mom calls me an older soul because, growing up, she taught me stuff real early. Now I spend most of my time chasing wisdom, chasing understanding. "
Ray Lewis
Growing Up
Time
Me
" Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use. "
Thomas J. Watson
Wisdom
Time
Power
" The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion. "
Robert Frost
Wisdom
Life
Stay
" All things must come to the soul from its roots, from where it is planted. "
Saint Teresa of Avila
Where
Wisdom
Come
" It isn't right to judge strength as better than good wisdom. "
Xenophanes
Judge
Better
Wisdom
" 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
" The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out. "
Walter Benjamin
Side
End
Dying
" Cynicism masquerades as wisdom, but it is the furthest thing from it. Because cynics don't learn anything. Because cynicism is a self-imposed blindness: a rejection of the world because we are afraid it will hurt us or disappoint us. Cynics always say 'no.' But saying 'yes' begins things. Saying 'yes' is how things grow. "
Stephen Colbert
World
Wisdom
Hurt
" The ultimate wisdom which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls faith rather than reason. "
Hal Borland
Wisdom
Faith
Seed
" The all-seeing eye of God beheld our deplorable state; infinite pity touched the heart of the Father of mercies; and infinite wisdom laid the plan of our recovery. "
David Brainerd
Father
Moving On
Wisdom
" In life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by. "
Lucille Ball
Wisdom
Life
Hard
" I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom. "
Anatole France
Wisdom
Folly
Indifference
" Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two. A constant coming and going: wisdom lies in the momentary. "
Octavio Paz
Going
Coming
Lies
" Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking. "
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Wisdom
Character
Think
" In my definition of consciousness, consciousness is the same thing as life. What wisdom traditions also call spirit. "
Deepak Chopra
Life
Spirit
Wisdom
" Who in their infinite wisdom decreed that Little League uniforms be white? Certainly not a mother. "
Erma Bombeck
Mother
Infinite
White
" All the great evils which men cause to each other because of certain intentions, desires, opinions, or religious principles, are likewise due to non-existence, because they originate in ignorance, which is absence of wisdom. "
Maimonides
Opinions
Wisdom
Ignorance
" We are wiser than we know. "
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wiser
Wisdom
Know
" Influential people are never satisfied with the status quo. They're the ones who constantly ask, 'What if?' and 'Why not?' They're not afraid to challenge conventional wisdom, and they don't disrupt things for the sake of being disruptive; they do it to make things better. "
Travis Bradberry
Better
Wisdom
People
" In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head. "
Arthur Schopenhauer
Heart
Wisdom
Work