#wisdo

Wisdom is the quality that keeps you from getting into situations where you need it. ↗

— Doug Larson

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Conventional wisdom notwithstanding, there is no reason either in football or in poetry why the two should not meet in a man's life if he has the weight and cares about the words. ↗

— Archibald MacLeish

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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. ↗

— Stanford Moore

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In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks. ↗

— John Muir

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And I love that even in the toughest moments, when we're all sweating it - when we're worried that the bill won't pass, and it seems like all is lost - Barack never lets himself get distracted by the chatter and the noise. Just like his grandmother, he just keeps getting up and moving forward... with patience and wisdom, and courage and grace. ↗

— Michelle Obama

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But the Wisdom of God, which is His only-begotten Son, being in all respects incapable of change or alteration, and every good quality in Him being essential, and such as cannot be changed and converted, His glory is therefore declared to be pure and sincere. ↗

— Origen

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There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain. ↗

— Plato

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Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences. ↗

— Plato

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This is perhaps the most profound meaning of the book of Job, the best example of wisdom. ↗

— Paul Ricoeur

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Novels are the Socratic dialogues of our time. Practical wisdom fled from school wisdom into this liberal form. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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