Wisdom Quotes

The common wisdom is that only about 1 percent of a novelist's research ends up in his or her book. In my experience, it's even less - closer to a tenth of a percent.

Gayle Lynds

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As you walk in God's divine wisdom, you will surely begin to see a greater measure of victory and good success in your life.

Joseph Prince

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What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens.

Ellen Glasgow

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In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.

Lao Tzu

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Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.

Thomas J. Watson

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Whatever religion or wisdom, spirituality and values are important to me and to the business.

Isabelle Kocher

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The superior man blames himself. The inferior man blames others.

Don Shula

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I sought my father in the world of the black musician, because it contained wisdom, experience, sadness and loneliness. I was not ever interested in the music of boys. From my youngest years, I was interested in the music of men.

Eric Clapton

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My abiding faith in the wisdom of our electorate is what gives me hope.

Kapil Sibal

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I think we perhaps are, with sleep, where we were with smoking about 50 years ago, in that we had all of the science, and it was right there for the public discussion, but it's not yet adequately sort of percolated out into policy or even just public wisdom.

Matthew Walker

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War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end; it has but one thing certain, and that is to increase taxes.

Thomas Paine

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It was not that long ago when the accepted wisdom in football was that the running game had to be established - that was always the obligatory verb: established - before passes could become effective. My, we know how that has changed. Now the pass is established from the get-go, and running is an afterthought.

Frank Deford

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A few years ago you couldn't go from TV to film. It was like a 'no no' but I believe when you find a plan and purpose that God has for your life, there's not anything man can do to you. Especially when your faith is not really standing in the wisdom of man, you're really standing in the wisdom of God.

Derek Luke

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Age is a terrible avenger. The lessons of life give you so much to work with, but by the time you've got all this great wisdom, you don't get to be young anymore.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

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It is much more difficult to measure nonperformance than performance.

Harold S. Geneen

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Global security can be formed or threatened by heads of state whose wisdom, folly and obsessions shape global events. But often it is the security practitioners, those rarely in the headlines but whose craft and energy quietly break new ground, who keep us safe or put us in peril.

Michael Hayden

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An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with.

Thomas Fuller

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Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.

Francis of Assisi

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Ending poverty calls for humility, honesty, freedom from ideology and refusal to accept cruel simplicities about anyone's human potential. It requires listening to the wisdom and cutting the nonsense from both the Right and the Left.

Donella Meadows

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Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.

Elizabeth Gaskell

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Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.

Hal Borland

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For the subtlest folly proceeds from the subtlest wisdom.

John Webster

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What is important to me is that when I write something, people listen to me. I provide my wisdom to people, whether they agree or not.

Nouriel Roubini

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