#wisdom

If an idea is indeed sensible, it will eventually become just part of the accepted wisdom. ↗

— Nigel Farage

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The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education. ↗

— John Updike

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By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest. ↗

— Confucius

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Books should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use. ↗

— John Denham

#delight #ends #fours #piety #should

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. ↗

— Ruth St. Denis

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The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom. ↗

— William Blake

#excess #leads #palace #road

The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure. ↗

— William Blake

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What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children. ↗

— William Blake

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We do not sit as a superlegislature to weigh the wisdom of legislation. ↗

— William O. Douglas

#sit #weigh #wisdom

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

— Robert Duvall

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