#wisdom

Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

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The result showed the wisdom of your orders. ↗

— John Bigelow

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It is by now proverbial that every proverb has its opposite. For every Time is money there is a Stop and smell the roses. When someone says You never stand in the same river twice someone else has already replied There is nothing new under the sun. In the mind's arithmetic, 1 plus -1 equals 2. Truths are not quantities but scripts: Become for a moment the mind in which this is true. ↗

— James Richardson

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The truest wisdom is a resolute determination. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

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It's very hard to know what wisdom is. ↗

— James Hillman

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Wisdom is keeping a sense of fallibility of all our views and opinions. ↗

— Gerald Brenan

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Beauty, the eternal Spouse of the Wisdom of God and Angel of his Presence thru' all creation. ↗

— Robert Bridges

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Knowledge is going to make you stronger. Knowledge is going to let you control your life. Knowledge is going to give you the wisdom to teach their children. Knowledge is the thing that makes you smile in the face of disaster. ↗

— Avery Brooks

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Evil can be a teacher, if you look at the wisdom of its negative power. ↗

— Tom Brown, Jr.

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Saudi Arabia is a puritanical state that claims a monopoly of wisdom and virtue. ↗

— James Buchan

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