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Doubt is the beginning of wisdom -- Aristotle
The beginning of wisdom is to desire it. -- Solomon Ibn Gabirol
To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom. -- Bertrand Russell
Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end. -- Leonard Nimoy
A wholesome oblivion of one's neighbours is the beginning of wisdom. -- Richard Le Gallienne
Knowing that you are going to die is, I suspect, the beginning of wisdom. -- Terry Pratchett
Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom. -- Theodore Isaac Rubin
I'm not wise, but the beginning of wisdom is there; it's like relaxing into - and an acceptance of - things. -- Tina Turner
This fear of the Lord is indeed the beginning of wisdom. This consciousness of sin is the straight pathway to heaven. -- Joseph Barber Lightfoot
Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom. -- Bertrand Russell
By the time you've reached your sixties, you do know that one day you will die, and knowing that is at least the beginning of wisdom. -- Terry Pratchett
In the beginning, Adam was instructed to earn the bread by the sweat of his brow - not Eve. Contrary to conventional wisdom, a mother's place is in the home! -- Ezra Taft Benson
My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom. -- William Tecumseh Sherman
The ultimate wisdom which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls faith rather than reason. -- Hal Borland
In world mythology, there are countless examples of tragic characters whose greatest strength is also the source of their undoing. But the ancient Greeks and Romans also held the view that acceptance is the beginning of wisdom. -- Simon Van Booy
Perhaps religious conscience upsets the designs of those who feel that the highest wisdom and authority comes from government. But from the beginning, this nation trusted in God, not man. Religious liberty is the first freedom in our Constitution. -- Mitt Romney
Man is wise and constantly in quest of more wisdom; but the ultimate wisdom, which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls forth faith rather than reason. -- Hal Borland
This society in which we live is radically changing. What previous generations saw as evil is now embraced as being good. It is a dangerous and slippery slope upon which we stand when we reject what Solomon called the beginning of wisdom - the fear of God. -- Ray Comfort
There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives. -- Cyril Connolly
Humanity's legacy of stories and storytelling is the most precious we have. All wisdom is in our stories and songs. A story is how we construct our experiences. At the very simplest, it can be: 'He/she was born, lived, died.' Probably that is the template of our stories - a beginning, middle, and end. This structure is in our minds. -- Doris Lessing
Curiosity is the beginning of wisdom. -- Francoise Sagan
Wonder is the beginning of wisdom. -- Socrates
Surprise is the beginning of wisdom. -- David Gelernter
Fear is the beginning of wisdom. -- Eugenie de Guerin
Wonder is the beginning of all wisdom. -- Socrates
Doubt is often the beginning of wisdom. -- M. Scott Peck
Curiosity is the beginning of all wisdom. -- Francoise Sagan
To understand yourself is the beginning of wisdom. -- Jiddu Krishnamurti
Awareness of ignorance is the beginning of wisdom. -- Socrates
Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom. -- Aristotle
Fear can indeed be the beginning of wisdom. -- Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth
Knowledge of death is the beginning of wisdom. -- Mallory Ortberg
To know thyself is the beginning of wisdom. -- Socrates
Not to know is the beginning of wisdom. -- Jiddu Krishnamurti
Doubt is the beginning, not the end, of wisdom. -- George Iles
The study of History is the beginning of wisdom. -- Jean Bodin
The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms. -- Socrates
The beginning of wisdom is the knowledge of folly. -- Norm MacDonald
The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms. -- Socrates
The beginning of all wisdom is recognition of facts. -- Juho Kusti Paasikivi
Suspicion is the beginning of wisdom, and of madness. -- Mason Cooley
The exhaustion of the passions is the beginning of wisdom. -- James Hilton
The beginning of wisdom is the beginning of supernatural power. -- Paracelsus
To know you are ignorant is the beginning of wisdom. -- Marion Zimmer Bradley
Knowing what you don't know is the beginning of wisdom. -- Debasish Mridha
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. -- Solomon
The feeling of right or wrong is the beginning of wisdom -- Mencius
True: fear is the beginning of wisdom, but love perfects it! -- Stefan Emunds
madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom -- Hermann Hesse
The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their proper name. -- Confucius
Awe is the beginning of wisdom. Awe is the beginning of education. -- Matthew Fox
Curiosity is the beginning of knowledge, but understanding is the beginning of wisdom. -- Debasish Mridha M.D.
You can't trust God to be unmerciful. There you have the beginning of all wisdom. -- Robert Frost
Honeymoons are the beginning of wisdom--but the beginning of wisdom is the end of romance. -- Helen Rowland
The beginning of wisdom, as the Chinese say, is calling things by their right names. -- E. O. Wilson
Wonder is the beginning of wisdom in learning from books as well as from nature. -- Mortimer Adler
Wonder is the beginning of wisdom in learning from books as well as from nature. -- Mortimer Adler
He is beginning to master wisdom when he tries to learn how not to try. -- Paul Brunton
Fear of the Lord is not the beginning of wisdom. It is the beginning of insanity. -- C.J. Anderson
Faith in the self-attesting Christ of Scripture is the beginning, not the end result of wisdom. -- Greg L. Bahnsen
Fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge. Only Fools despise wisdom and discipline. Proverbs 1:7 NLT -- Eddie Johnson
Fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge. Only Fools despise wisdom and discipline." Proverbs 1:7 NLT -- Eddie Johnson
Ignorance is the beginning of knowledge; knowledge is the beginning of wisdom; wisdom is the awareness of ignorance. -- William Rotsler
Proverbs 9:10 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is understanding. -- Bible KJV
Now you are beginning to think for yourself instead of letting others think for you. That's the beginning of wisdom. -- Margaret Mitchell
As the fear of God is the beginning of wisdom, so the denial of God is the height of foolishness. -- R. C. Sproul
The fear of God is the beginning of wisdom, and they that lack the beginning have neither middle nor end -- John Bunyan
The beginning of all wisdom is to look fixedly on clothes, or even with armed eyesight, till they become transparent. -- Thomas Carlyle
Axiome: la haine du bourgeois est le commencement de la vertu. Axiom: Hatred of the bourgeois is the beginning of wisdom. -- Gustave Flaubert
I have always felt that doubt was the beginning of wisdom, and the fear of God was the end of wisdom. -- Clarence Darrow
If the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, then growing in our knowledge of God is always practical. -- Kevin DeYoung
To understand the actual world as it is, not as we should wish it to be, is the beginning of wisdom. -- Bertrand Russell
In these simple words, Lord, is it I? lies the beginning of wisdom and the pathway to personal conversion and lasting change. -- Dieter F. Uchtdorf
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
There is a time when a man distinguishes the idea of felicity from the idea of wealth; it is the beginning of wisdom. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting; by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth. -- Peter Abelard
Through indiscriminate suffering men know fear, and fear is the most divine emotion. It is the stones for altars and the beginning of wisdom. -- Zora Neale Hurston
The beginning of wisdom, as they say. When you're seventeen you know everything. When you're twenty-seven if you still know everything you're still seventeen. -- Ray Bradbury
Gratitude is the beginning of wisdom. Stated differently, true wisdom cannot be obtained unless it is built on a foundation of true humility and gratitude. -- Gordon B. Hinckley
It is no easy task to do away with a thing that is established. We, therefore, say that the non-beginning of a thing is supreme wisdom. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The beginning of all wisdom is to understand that you don't know. To know is the enemy of all learning. To be sure is the enemy of wisdom. -- Victor Villasenor

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