#wisdo

How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it ↗

— Alexandre Dumas

#education #humor #innate-wisdom #education

He was one of the numerous and varied legion of dullards, of half-animated abortions, conceited, half-educated coxcombs, who attach themselves to the idea most in fashion only to vulgarize it and who caricature every cause they serve, however sincerely. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#fyodor-dostoevsky #hipsters #ignorance #politics #wisdom

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

— Sidney Lanier

#acquired #endeavor #rests #through #upon

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

— Doug Larson

#getting #into #keeps #need #quality

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

#aura #ceremony #chemist #grown #intellectual

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

— John Muir

#every #far #more #nature #receives

Words of wisdom are spoken by children at least as often as scientists. ↗

— James Newman

#least #often #scientists #spoken #wisdom

It may be assumed as an axiom that Providence has never gifted any political party with all of political wisdom or blinded it with all of political folly. ↗

— John George Nicolay

#assumed #axiom #blinded #folly #gifted

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

#bill #chatter #courage #distracted #even

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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