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" Quotes and Sayings About wisdom

You know, many people have said that I'm on the edge and I'm maverick for some of the big operations that I've done. I'm not at all. I pray; I ask God to give me wisdom, 'Should I do it?', guidance in terms of how to do it, who to consult with. All those kind of things are incredibly important.

Big Consult Done Edge
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I actually don't think that I'm that much smarter than anybody else. It's just that I frequently just seem to know what to do, and I think that's wisdom.

Actually Anybody Else Frequently
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In my own personal life, God plays a great role in the risk, because I pray before I go into the operating room for every case, and I ask him to give me wisdom, to help me to know what to do - and not only for operating, but for everything.

Operating Own Personal Plays
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Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.
Empire Go Great Ill
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I had more energy at 50. On the other hand, at 75, I've probably got a little more wisdom and good judgment than I had at 50 because I've got more experience. But I haven't really changed. I'm still driven by the same philosophy.

Because Changed Driven Energy
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There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.
Head Heart Wisdom
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Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

Book Chapter First Honesty
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Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.

Wise Deal Fool Great
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Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.

Compassion Courage Moral Qualities
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They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.

Change Constant Happiness Must
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Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.

Enlightenment Knowing Others Wisdom
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I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

Believe Collective Ignorance Individual
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Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end.

Beginning End Logic Wisdom
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It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law.

Authority Law Makes Wisdom
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The gateways to wisdom and learning are always open, and more and more I am choosing to walk through them. Barriers, blocks, obstacles, and problems are personal teachers giving me the opportunity to move out of the past and into the Totality of Possibilities.

Always Am Barriers Blocks
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If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance.
I Can Ignorance Only Teach
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Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

Information Knowledge Life Living
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Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.

Amount Break Hearts Including
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Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control.

Control Gives Knowledge Man
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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
Know Knowing Nothing Only
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I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.

Decided Deliver Find Inspiration
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True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

About Around Each How
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Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.

Alone Also Anticipate Businessman
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If the Bill of Rights contains no guarantee that a citizen shall be secure against lethal poisons distributed either by private individuals or by public officials, it is surely only because our forefathers, despite their considerable wisdom and foresight, could conceive of no such problem.

Bill-of-rights Forefathers Pollution
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If facts are the seeds that later produce knowledge and wisdom, then the emotions and the impressions of the senses are the fertile soil in which the seeds must grow.

Curiosity inspirational Knowledge Wonder
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More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.

Forsake Helpful Human More
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Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.

Consist Dam Day Every
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Each of us finds his unique vehicle for sharing with others his bit of wisdom.
Bit Each Finds His
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O Lord, how happy should we be If we would cast our care on Thee, If we from self would rest; And feel at heart that One above, In perfect wisdom, perfect love, Is working for the best!

Care Happiness Wisdom
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A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
Begins Delight Ends Poem
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Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.

Counsel Fabric Life Real
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The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.

Truth Dying Wisdom Art
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Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.

Better Fate Kisses Than
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To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly.

Expect Folly Keep Others
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Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.
Gain Guide Live Living
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I am deeply impressed with the gravity and wisdom with which most federal judges approach the responsibility of sentencing. It is a difficult, soul-searching task at best.

Am Approach Best Deeply
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Grief can be the garden of compassion. If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can become your greatest ally in your life's search for love and wisdom.

Ally Become Compassion Everything
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The war... was an unnecessary condition of affairs, and might have been avoided if forebearance and wisdom had been practiced on both sides.

Affairs Avoided Been Both
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We must expect reverses, even defeats. They are sent to teach us wisdom and prudence, to call forth greater energies, and to prevent our falling into greater disasters.

Call Defeats Disasters Energies
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God has already done everything He's going to do. The ball is now in your court. If you want success, if you want wisdom, if you want to be prosperous and healthy, you're going to have to do more than meditate and believe; you must boldly declare words of faith and victory over yourself and your family.

Ball Believe Boldly Court
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Let us not take ourselves too seriously. None of us has a monopoly on wisdom.

Wisdom Life and Love Monopoly
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Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.

Bliss Complete Created Eternal
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Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.

Calls Consider Despise False
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The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.

Bid Does Enter His
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Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.

Away Before Bow Children
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Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

Between Change Dialectic Lies
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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.

Between Change Coming Constant
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The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.

End Wisdom High Seeking
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Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.

Call Experience Fruit Great
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The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion.

Human Process First Wisdom
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