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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?

Quotes by T. S. Eliot

Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.

Quotes by Sydney J. Harris

We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.

Swami Vivekananda

I do think that the standard media is controlled by the conventional wisdom about global warming. We've come to believe - from reading a lot of articles and talking to a lot of scientists - that there's another side to be heard.

Quotes by Steven Levitt

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

Quotes by Stephen Vincent Benet

The American people voted for a president, Donald Trump, who's very tough, very strong, very aggressive on terrorism, but at the same time smart. At the same time sophisticated. At the same time, heeding the wisdom of our founders who warned about entangling foreign engagement.

Quotes by Stephen Miller

The greater the step forward in knowledge, the greater is the one taken backward in search of wisdom.

Quotes by Stephen Gardiner

Cynicism masquerades as wisdom, but it is the furthest thing from it. Because cynics don't learn anything. Because cynicism is a self-imposed blindness: a rejection of the world because we are afraid it will hurt us or disappoint us. Cynics always say 'no.' But saying 'yes' begins things. Saying 'yes' is how things grow.

Quotes by Stephen Colbert

The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.

Quotes by Stendhal

I've always enjoyed doing challenging things and also challenging common wisdom.

Quotes by Stefan Hell

This ceremony and the intellectual aura associated with the Nobel Prizes have grown from the wisdom of a practical chemist who wrote a remarkable will.

Quotes by Stanford Moore

Only people who lack wisdom would say that a project should be pursued even if it leads to wanton destruction of forests.

Quotes by Sreenivasan

Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.

Sophocles

Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Sophocles

A short saying often contains much wisdom.

Sophocles

Quick decisions are unsafe decisions.

Sophocles

Much wisdom often goes with fewest words.

Sophocles

Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

Once you label me you negate me.

Quotes by Soren Kierkegaard

Rich people without wisdom and learning are but sheep with golden fleeces.

Quotes by Solon

The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Quotes by Solomon Ibn Gabirol

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

Socrates

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.

Socrates

Wisdom begins in wonder.

Socrates

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.

Socrates

Be as you wish to seem.

Socrates

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

Socrates

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

Quotes by Sigmund Freud

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.

Quotes by Sigmund Freud

Wisdom is a kind of knowledge. It is knowledge of the nature, career, and consequences of human values.

Quotes by Sidney Hook

Virtues are acquired through endeavor, which rests wholly upon yourself.

Quotes by Sidney Lanier

If you want to be found stand where the seeker seeks.

Quotes by Sidney Lanier

After all my possessions had been burned, God gave me the wisdom to return to Jerusalem.

Quotes by Shmuel Yosef Agnon

What is man's ultimate direction in life? It is to look for love, truth, virtue, and beauty.

Quotes by Shinichi Suzuki

Your art kind of changes as you get older, by nature of the fact that you're hopefully gaining wisdom and you're starting to watch things with a better overview.

Quotes by Sheryl Crow

The Ohio Legislature's passed a law to allow concealed weapons in day care centers, but interesting: this same Legislature, in its wisdom, doesn't allow concealed weapons in the statehouse.

Quotes by Sherrod Brown

When I go out to direct a film, every day we prepare too much, we think too much. Knowledge becomes a weight upon wisdom. You know, simple words lost in the quicksand of experience.

Quotes by Shekhar Kapur

My own feelings of where I am in this world and the questions that I am asking myself, I started to explore them through the story 'Four Feathers' and through this actor called Heath Ledger. I knew that I had to find a 21-year-old who could play wisdom at the end. He's only 21 or 22, and I tested him.

Quotes by Shekhar Kapur

I have devoted my life to uncertainty. Certainty is the death of wisdom, thought, creativity.

Quotes by Shekhar Kapur

The more I draw and write, the more I realise that accidents are a necessary part of any creative act, much more so than logic or wisdom. Sometimes a mistake is the only way of arriving at an original concept, and the history of successful inventions is full of mishaps, serendipity and unintended results.

Quotes by Shaun Tan

We all have within us a deep wisdom, but sometimes we don't know we have it.

Quotes by Shakti Gawain

We live in a culture that doesn't acknowledge or validate human intuition and doesn't encourage us to rely on our intuitive wisdom.

Quotes by Shakti Gawain

When I wrote Living in the Light, I wanted to share about how I live my own life and to encourage people to tap into their own inner wisdom.

Quotes by Shakti Gawain

There is a universal, intelligent, life force that exists within everyone and everything. It resides within each one of us as a deep wisdom, an inner knowing. We can access this wonderful source of knowledge and wisdom through our intuition, an inner sense that tells us what feels right and true for us at any given moment.

Quotes by Shakti Gawain

Sometimes it might seem like I'm using my songs to give other people pointers. But mainly, they're for me, just little notes to myself that I collected, and the wisdom that I've read. I give myself a lot of advice.

Quotes by Seinabo Sey

It is one thing to oppose a bill and say, 'Well, I'm smarter than the other side and have more wisdom than they do,' but it is another thing to oppose a law because it violates the very principles upon which this country was founded.

Quotes by Scott Garrett

Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching.

Quotes by Satchel Paige

My first spoken word poem, packed with all the wisdom of a 14-year-old, was about the injustice of being seen as unfeminine. The poem was very indignant, and mainly exaggerated, but the only spoken word poetry that I had seen up until that point was mainly indignant, so I thought that that's what was expected of me.

Quotes by Sarah Kay

When I can look life in the eyes, grown calm and very coldly wise, life will have given me the truth, and taken in exchange - my youth.

Quotes by Sara Teasdale

Wisdom is not acquired save as the result of investigation.

Quotes by Sara Teasdale

In the end, the real wisdom of menopause may be in questioning how fun or even sane this chore wheel called modern life actually is.

Quotes by Sandra Tsing Loh

The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning; whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom.

Quotes by Samuel Smiles

Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only.

Quotes by Samuel Smiles

Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry.

Quotes by Samuel Smiles

We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

Quotes by Samuel Smiles

Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

Quotes by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The perceived wisdom is that people do not go in large numbers to black-and-white movies anymore - which is a great shame, but I'd love to make a black-and-white movie one day.

Quotes by Sam Mendes

Nothing can be better calculated to advance our interests and character than the establishment of a liberal and disinterested policy, enlightened by patriotism and guided by wisdom.

Quotes by Sam Houston

I always told, Sandra Bullock was my student when she was younger, I always told her it's important that we hold on to our insecurity, the wisdom of insecurity.

Quotes by Sally Kirkland

All things must come to the soul from its roots, from where it is planted.

Quotes by Saint Teresa of Avila

The All-Wise Maker attaches hundreds of instances of wisdom to each of the beings in the palace of the universe and equips them to perform hundreds of duties. To all trees He bestows instances of wisdom to the number of its fruits and gives duties to the number of its flowers.

Quotes by Said Nursi

The divine wisdom which requires a division of labor has sown different abilities and tendencies in human nature and has enabled human beings to carry out the duty of establishing sciences and developing technology. The fulfillment of this duty is obligatory upon humanity as a whole, though not on every individual.

Quotes by Said Nursi

Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.

Quotes by Saint Augustine

A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.

Quotes by Saint Basil

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.

Quotes by Saint Basil

Our wisdom comes from our experience, and our experience comes from our foolishness.

Quotes by Sacha Guitry

With age comes wisdom.

Quotes by S. Sreesanth

Whenever you argue with another wiser than yourself in order that others may admire your wisdom, they will discover your ignorance.

Quotes by Saadi

Wisdom is important in every man's life.

Quotes by Rza

Our bodies are at once the receiving and transmitting stations for life itself. It is the highest wisdom to recognize this fact and train our bodies to render them sensitive and responsive to nature. art and religion.

Quotes by Ruth St. Denis

Surely wisdom will come as we listen to learn from children, parents, partners, neighbors, Church leaders, and the Lord.

Quotes by Russell M. Nelson

Wisdom is a gift but has nothing to do with age. That was probably the case with me.

Quotes by Ruby Bridges

And when the world is created, it is created in such a way that those eternal objects of God's loving wisdom become actualities - interacting with one another, relating to God in the finite realm.

Quotes by Rowan Williams

I don't want to put a pause on the rest of my life; I'm really enjoying getting older and the wisdom that comes from that.

Quotes by Rosemarie DeWitt

If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself.

Quotes by Rollo May

The long-standing wisdom that everyone wins in a single world market has been undermined. Global trade, capital flows, and immigration are declining.

Quotes by Roger Altman

It is costly wisdom that is bought by experience.

Quotes by Roger Ascham

I am a poor student sitting at the feet of giants, yearning for their wisdom and begging for lessons that might one day make me a complete artist, so that if all goes well, I may one day sit beside them.

Quotes by Rod Taylor

A promise made is a debt unpaid.

Quotes by Robert W. Service

The seven wise men of Greece, so famous for their wisdom all the world over, acquired all that fame, each of them, by a single sentence consisting of two or three words.

Quotes by Robert South

F. Lee Bailey had been an inspiration to me. It was my desire to have him behind the scenes, to rely on his great wisdom and his brainpower, but I did not feel he should be in the courtroom.

Quotes by Robert Shapiro

Every speaker has a mouth; An arrangement rather neat. Sometimes it's filled with wisdom. Sometimes it's filled with feet.

Quotes by Robert Orben

For the men and women of the FBI, bravery is reflected not only in the physical courage often necessary in the job. It can be seen in the courage of conviction, in the courage to act with wisdom in the face of fear, and in the courage it takes to admit mistakes and move forward.

Quotes by Robert Mueller

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.

Quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson

Slow and steady wins the race.

Quotes by Robert Lloyd

The Gross National Product measures neither our wit nor our courage, neither our wisdom nor our learning, neither our compassion nor our devotion to our country. It measures everything, in short, except that which makes life worthwhile, and it can tell us everything about America - except whether we are proud to be Americans.

Quotes by Robert Kennedy

Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.

Quotes by Robert Kennedy

I think we do need to try to not just rely on the central bank to, in its wisdom, adjust interest rates, but allow for people to avoid being exposed to inflation risk.

Quotes by Robert J. Shiller

Spectacular achievement is always preceded by unspectacular preparation.

Quotes by Robert H. Schuller

We are to seek wisdom and understanding only in the length of days.

Quotes by Robert Hall

How do you rate works of genius? Partly by personal inclination, partly by accepted wisdom, partly by popularity.

Quotes by Robert Gottlieb

Spending two years on my uncle's ranch in Montana as a young man gave me the wisdom and the thrust to do westerns.

Quotes by Robert Duvall

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

Quotes by Robert E. Lee

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.

Quotes by Robert E. Lee

Wisdom, prudence, forethought, these are essential. But not second to these that noble courage which adventures the right, and leaves the consequences to God.

Quotes by Robert Dale Owen

Beauty, the eternal Spouse of the Wisdom of God and Angel of his Presence thru' all creation.

Quotes by Robert Bridges

History does not repeat itself. Nor does it unfold in cycles. The real future is contingent, rich beyond imagining, a perennial gobsmack, tragic and glorious in equal measure; the pundits' future, spun of 'conventional wisdom,' is only a sucker punch to that common-sense fact.

Quotes by Rick Perlstein

It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary.

Quotes by Richard Whately

This land, which we have watered with our tears and our blood, is now our mother country, and we are well satisfied to stay where wisdom abounds and gospel is free.

Quotes by Richard V. Allen

It is in the interest of Americans to find out what those wanting to be president think about a wide range of challenges and what they might do about them. We should want to get their take on the wisdom of past decisions, what they agree and disagree with, and why.

Quotes by Richard N. Haass

Unrestrained zeal to make the world better could make it worse. Promoting democracy must be undertaken with humility, care, and wisdom.

Quotes by Richard N. Haass

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