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No great wisdom can be reached without sacrifice. -- C. S. Lewis
Great wisdom not applied to action and behavior is meaningless data. -- Peter Drucker
Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous. -- Zhuangzi
Life is absolutely insane. Yes, life is insane but the great wisdom lies in choosing your insanity wisely. -- Paulo Coelho
The great wisdom of life is that we can be masters of the things that try to enslave us. -- Paulo Coelho
The great wisdom for writers, perhaps for everybody, is to come to understand to be at one with their own tempo. -- Alan Hollinghurst
The great wisdom traditions of the world all recognize that the main impediment to living a life of meaning is being self-absorbed. -- Barbara Brown Taylor
The small wisdom is like water in a glass: clear, transparent, pure. The great wisdom is like the water in the sea: dark, mysterious, impenetrable. -- Rabindranath Tagore
It is great wisdom to know how to be silent and to look at neither the remarks, nor the deeds, nor the lives of others. -- John of the Cross
I would beseech you not only to be pure beyond suspicion but I would ask you to combine with stainless purity, great wisdom and great ability. -- Mahatma Gandhi
It's important to resolve to yourself, 'I will absolutely win!' Then this firm commitment will serve as the wellspring of great wisdom and courage that surges forth from within. -- Daisaku Ikeda
Through mutual understanding, sincerity and goodwill, and with great wisdom and broad views, the leaders on both sides should jointly initiate new opportunities for peace, stability, cooperation and mutual benefit. -- Chen Shui-bian
I do interviews because it's a chance to be myself. I sometimes wonder what I could have to say that would be of any interest. I don't have any great wisdom -- Parker Stevenson
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
When I was at drama school, I wanted to change the world, and thought I had some great wisdom to impart to people about humanity. Now that I'm older, I know enough to realise that I know nothing at all. -- Michael Sheen
Ideas are merely sensations imprinted deep inside us...Like attracts like...There is great wisdom in the subconscious mind. If you begin to work with it, it can be of tremendous benefit to you and serve as an excellent reservoir of knowledge.. -- James Van Praagh
Youll come to see that a man learns nothing from winning. The act of losing, however, can elicit great wisdom. Not least of which is how much more enjoyable it is to win. Its inevitable to lose now and again. The trick is not to make a habit of it. -- Albert Finney
Many great writers address audiences who do not exist; to address passionately and sometimes with very great wisdom people who do not exist has this advantage - that there will always be a group of people who, seeing a man shouting apparently at somebody or other, and seeing nobody else in sight, will think it is they who are being addressed. -- Wyndham Lewis
Arrogance is a great obstruction to wisdom. -- Wilfred Bion
When wisdom and knowledge appear, great pretense arises. -- Laozi
There is no great concurrence between learning and wisdom. -- Francis Bacon
The knowledge of the Holy Scripture is a great wisdom. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Ignorance of certain subjects is a great part of wisdom. -- Hugo Grotius
Great children's books are wisdom dipped in words and art. -- Peter H. Reynolds
Failure will teach you more wisdom than a great success. -- Debasish Mridha
Men who love wisdom should acquaint themselves with a great many particulars. -- Heraclitus
May the Lord grant you great grace, great strength and great wisdom. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Leadership is only courage and wisdom, and a great carefulness of self. -- John Buchan
Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
No matter how great your wisdom, you can still make a fool of yourself. -- James Cook
My mother is a great source of advice and wisdom and consolation for me. -- Katherine Heigl
The Bible is a great source of wisdom and consolation and should be read frequently -- Albert Einstein
Great men have been among us; hands that penn'd And tongues that utter'd wisdom--better none -- William Wordsworth
[Government's] great contribution to human wisdom...is the discovery that the taxpayer has more than one pocket. -- H. L. Mencken
The great creative individual . . . is capable of more wisdom and virtue than collective man ever can be. -- John Stuart Mill
The six great gifts of an Irish girl are beauty, soft voice, sweet speech, wisdom, needlework, and chastity. -- Theodore Roosevelt
There is, in all great poets, a wisdom of humanity which is superior to any talents they exercise. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A grain of gold will gild a great surface, but not so much as a grain of wisdom. -- Henry David Thoreau
And if I have the gift of prophesy, all-wisdom and great faith but without love, I am nothing. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Youngsters lack wisdom; elders lack energy! When wisdom and energy comes to gather, great things are destined to happen! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
I haven't any wisdom - just a child like everybody else. I'm not as great as Frank Lloyd Wright. -- Philip Johnson
To build a great company, which is a CEO's job, sometimes you have to stand up against conventional wisdom. -- Carly Fiorina
A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise. -- John Henry Newman
No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful. -- Ernest Hemingway
Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together. -- Edmund Burke
Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom-box. -- Thomas Huxley
So great and boundless is God's wisdom that he knows right well how to use evil instruments to do good. -- John Calvin
Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain. -- Khalil Gibran
I am not one who was born with great wisdom. I love the ancients and diligently seek wisdom among them. -- Confucius
Great is wisdom; infinite is the value of wisdom. It cannot be exaggerated; it is the highest achievement of man. -- Thomas Carlyle
Isabel Wilkerson's book is a masterful narrative of the rich wisdom and deep courage of a great people. Don't miss it! -- Cornel West
Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues. -- Abigail Adams
All great art originates from the innocent child within us expressing itself through the wisdom, experience and skill of an adult. -- Richard Schmid
It is only by prudence, wisdom, and dexterity that great ends are attained and obstacles overcome. Without these qualities nothing succeeds. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
The few have not strength to achieve great changes unaided; the many have not wisdom to be moved by truth unmixed. -- Lord Acton
This is the great secret. This is the sacred wisdom. Do unto others as you would have it done unto you. -- Neale Donald Walsch
Blessed is he who devotes his life to great and noble ends, and who forms his well-considered plans with deliberate wisdom. -- Saint Augustine
True fortitude is seen in great exploits That justice warrants, and that wisdom guides; And all else is tow'ring phrenzy and distraction. -- Joseph Addison
The contradictory, consuming, contested relationship between detail and whole, event an eventuality, breathes fire and wisdom in every great work of art. -- Russell Sherman
The Art of Peace is based on four Great Virtues: Bravery, Wisdom, Love, and Friendship, symbolized by Fire, Heaven, Earth, and Water. -- Morihei Ueshiba
At sixty, I know little more about wisdom than I did at thirty, but I know a great deal more about folly. -- Mason Cooley
Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of great sculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves. -- Aldous Huxley
It is a great blessing to be able to forget, but it takes a lot of wisdom to know what should be forgotten. -- Martha Albrand
It's the bringing together of knowledge and wisdom that is a great part - perhaps the greatest part - of our life's journey. -- Roger Housden
However glorious an action in itself, it ought not to pass for great if it be not the effect of wisdom and intention. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
God designed it this way; He intended that His great power, wisdom, and love should become visible in very ordinary and otherwise inconsequential people. -- Ray Stedman
All began in love, all seeks to return in love. Love is the law, the teacher of wisdom, and the great revealer of mysteries. -- Starhawk
I did learn that some of the things that are great for locker rooms are inappropriate for political discourse. That's a wisdom I've garnered. -- George Allen
I love being. There's so much wisdom in it. You wake up in the morning and you think, Hey, isn't it great just being? -- Gwyneth Paltrow
In history, a great volume is unrolled for our instruction, drawing the materials of future wisdom from the past errors and infirmities of mankind. -- Edmund Burke
Unhappy is that Grandeur which makes us too great to be good; and that Wit which sets us at a distance from true Wisdom. -- Mary Astell
Was not this ... what we spoke of as the great advantage of wisdom -- to know what is known and what is unknown to us? -- Plato
Let us unlearn our wisdom of the world. Let us lie low in the Lord's power, and learn that truth alone makes rich and great. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A sense of our own folly is a great step towards being wise, when it leads us to rely on the wisdom of the Lord. -- Charles Spurgeon
To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living. -- Herman Melville
The strength of a man is in his character. A strong man is great man of wisdom who understands, his top priority is to his family. -- Ellen J. Barrier
I think we need to recover the depth, the subtlety, the generosity of imagination, the respect for wisdom that so marked Islam in its great ages. -- Prince Charles
Follow the wisdom of the great actor, James Cagney, you hit your mark, you look the other guy in the eye, and you tell the truth. -- Larry Merchant
Wisdom is not what comes from reading great books. When it comes to understanding life, experiential learning is the only worthwhile kind, everything else is hearsay. -- Joan Erikson
The strength of a man is in his character. A strong man is a great man of wisdom who understands, his top priority is to his family. -- Ellen J. Barrier
The purposes of our God are great, His love unfathomable, His wisdom infinite, and His power unlimited; therefore, the Saints have cause to rejoice and be glad. -- Joseph Smith, Jr.
He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father's wisdom than he who has a great deal left him does to his father's care. -- William Penn
Great are those two gifts, wisdom and continence: wisdom, forsooth, whereby we are formed in the knowledge of God; continence whereby we are not conformed to this world. -- Saint Augustine
I go by the great republican principle, that the people will have the virtue and intelligence to select men of virtue and wisdom [to the offices of government]. -- James Madison
Magic has power to experience and fathom things which are inaccessible to human reason. For magic is a great secret wisdom, just as reason is a great public folly. -- Paracelsus
Our addiction to always being right is a great block to the truth. It keeps us from the kind of openness that comes from confidence in our natural wisdom. -- Stephen Levine
Exploding many things under the name of trifles is a very false proof either of wisdom or magnanimity, and a great check to virtuous actions with regard to fame. -- Jonathan Swift
There are compensations for growing older. One is the realization that to be sporting isn't at all necessary. It is a great relief to reach this stage of wisdom. -- Cornelia Otis Skinner
There is no creature among all the Beasts of the world which hath so great and ample demonstration of the power and wisdom of almighty God as the Elephant. -- Edward Topsell
Surely, God on high has not refused to give us enough wisdom to find ways to bring us an improvement in relations between the two great nations on earth. -- Mikhail Gorbachev
We all feel better when we are grateful. There is great wisdom in understanding that no matter the situation, there is always something for which we can choose to be grateful. -- Andy Andrews
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