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" Blessed are those who give without remembering and take without forgetting. "
Elizabeth Bibesco
Wisdom
Remembering
Forgetting
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" The left has come to regard common sense - the traditional wisdom and folkways of the community - as an obstacle to progress and enlightenment. "
Christopher Lasch
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" Discipline is wisdom and vice versa. "
M. Scott Peck
Wisdom
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" They are few in the midst of an overwhelming mass of brute force, and their submission is wisdom; but for a nation like England to submit to be robbed by any invader who chooses to visit her shores seemed to me to be nonsense. "
George Combe
Nation
Nonsense
Wisdom
" We gain the strength of the temptation we resist. "
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Gain
Temptation
Strength
" I'm particularly interested in black swan events: unprecedented surprises that destroy the conventional wisdom about how the world works. "
Paolo Bacigalupi
Events
World
Wisdom
" A good memory is surely a compost heap that converts experience to wisdom, creativity, or dottiness; not that these things are of much earthly value, but at least they may keep you amused when the world is keeping you locked away or shutting you out. "
Michael Leunig
Creativity
Wisdom
Experience
" Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time. "
Theodore Roosevelt
Being
Nine-Tenths
Time
" Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself. "
Oprah Winfrey
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Where
Follow
" 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
" Even youngish men can acquire wisdom as time goes by. "
John Bercow
Time
Wisdom
Time Goes By
" You need to have extraordinary wisdom to be the forerunner. "
Ma Huateng
Need
Wisdom
You
" Tis but a part we see, and not a whole. "
Alexander Pope
Tis
Whole
Part
" 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
" Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it. "
David Starr Jordan
Virtue
Knowing
Doing
" Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control. "
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Science
Knowledge
Power
" There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives. "
Cyril Connolly
Beginning
Rest
Strong
" He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich. "
Evelyn Waugh
Rich
Sharp
Instinct
" Protection, as we use the word in Buddhism, is actually wisdom, it's insight. Protection is seeing and knowing deeply that all things in our experience arise due to causes, due to conditions coming together in a certain way. "
Sharon Salzberg
Experience
Together
Seeing
" I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done. "
Lucille Ball
Things
Wisdom
Rather
" 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
" Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom. "
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wisdom
Goodness
Root
" Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable. "
Sydney J. Harris
Things
Wisdom
Time
" Through the years, I, like you, have experienced pressures and disappointments that would have crushed me had I not been able to draw upon a source of wisdom and strength far greater than my own. He has never forgotten or forsaken me, and I have come to know for myself that Jesus is the Christ and that this is His Church. "
Sheri L. Dew
Myself
Strength
Wisdom
" A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom. "
Robert Frost
Delight
Poem
Begins
" Plodding wins the race. "
Aesop
Race
Plodding
Wins
" For the Holy Ghost blesses us with optimism and wisdom at times of challenge that we simply cannot muster on our own. "
Sheri L. Dew
Wisdom
Own
Optimism
" Combine the extremes, and you will have the true center. "
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Will
True
Combine
" If an idea is indeed sensible, it will eventually become just part of the accepted wisdom. "
Nigel Farage
Wisdom
Indeed
Idea
" We are wiser than we know. "
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wiser
Wisdom
Know
" Theology in general seems to me a substitution of human ingenuity for divine wisdom. "
Julia Ward Howe
Theology
Wisdom
Me