Wisdom
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To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.
Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
Don't gain the world and lose your soul; wisdom is better than silver or gold.
Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.
Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.
Divide and rule, the politician cries; unite and lead, is watchword of the wise.
Wisdom sails with wind and time.
Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.
Be quick to learn and wise to know.
Study how water flows in a valley stream, smoothly and freely between the rocks. Also learn from holy books and wise people. Everything — even mountains, rivers, plants and trees — should be your teacher.
What I want to do with my filmmaking is help kids experience the truth and wisdom of nature no matter where they are, whether or not they have the opportunity to go to a national park.
Now, if you notice how the swan, putting its neck down into the deep water, brings up food for itself from below, then you will discover the wisdom of the Creator, in that He gave it a neck longer than its feet for this reason, that it might, as if lowering a sort of fishing line, procure the food hidden in the deep water.
The good and the wise lead quiet lives.
A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.
Nothing is as dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is to be preferred.
I have to convince other Democrats and Republicans that it's wise to invest in the U.S.-Mexico border, not just for security, but also for mobility and trade, and that's why we should open up the border.
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