Wisdom
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A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.
Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.
Because of my upbringing, I believe in things like limited government, fiscal responsibility and personal accountability. I believe in the wisdom of our founders and the sanctity of our Constitution.
The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
No one should be ashamed to admit they are wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that they are wiser today than they were yesterday.
Wisdom begins in wonder.
We all grow up. Hopefully, we get wiser. Age brings wisdom, and fatherhood changes one's life completely.
Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom, innocence with understanding, and lack of purpose with self-actualization.
Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences.
Cunning is but the low mimic of wisdom.
As you get older and wiser you realize that when people are given anything without having to earn it (unless they are physically or mentally utterly incapable of earning anything), they become ungrateful and lazy. They also become less happy.
Every judgement of conscience, be it right or wrong, be it about things evil in themselves or morally indifferent, is obligatory, in such wise that he who acts against his conscience always sins.
A wise woman recognizes when her life is out of balance and summons the courage to act to correct it, she knows the meaning of true generosity, happiness is the reward for a life lived in harmony, with a courage and grace.
A loving heart is the truest wisdom.
I'm now the elder in the position of doling out wisdom and trying to mend fences.
One part of wisdom is knowing what you don't need anymore and letting it go.
A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.
Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.
But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.
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