Wisdom
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Of course, when you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.
Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.
It is time to remember that old wisdom our soldiers will never forget: that whether we are black or brown or white, we all bleed the same red blood of patriots, we all enjoy the same glorious freedoms, and we all salute the same great American Flag.
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.
There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.
Silence is true wisdom's best reply.
God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.
Always keep your mind as bright and clear as the vast sky, the great ocean, and the highest peak, empty of all thoughts. Always keep your body filled with light and heat. Fill yourself with the power of wisdom and enlightenment.
You can be very wild and still be very wise.
It is a wise father that knows his own child.
Patience is the companion of wisdom.
A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.
Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.
We need to have complete certainty that things will work out, not because we are righteous or wise, but because of the time, the effort, the prayers, and the tools we are using. From the moment we are given awareness about some bigger picture or mission, we have to have complete focus on what to do to get to that place.
The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying.
Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.