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wisdom wise
He is wise that is wise to himself. Euripides
wisdom cards dice
You will cast away your cards and dice when you find the sweetness of youthful learning. Richard Baxter
wisdom prayer giving
God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other. This prayer was first printed in a monthly bulletin of the Federal Council of Churches and has become enormously popular. It has been circulated in millions of copies. Reinhold Niebuhr
wisdom doubt orthodoxy
Frantic orthodoxy is never rooted in faith but in doubt. It is when we are unsure that we are doubly sure.
wisdom knowledge knowing
Nothing worth knowing can be understood with the mind. Woody Allen
wisdom fowl righteous
Whosoever loveth wisdom is righteous, but he that keepeth company with fowl is weird.
wisdom greatness men
Great men have been among us; hands that penn'd And tongues that utter'd wisdom--better none William Wordsworth
wisdom children knees
Wisdom sits with children round her knees.
wisdom philosophical learning
Wisdom is learning what to overlook. William James
knowledge love mainly power pursuit
The pursuit of knowledge is, I think, mainly actuated by love of power Bertrand Russell
knowledge deals known
A very great deal more truth can become known than can be proven. Richard P. Feynman
knowledge men ideas
According to the technical language of old writers, a thing and its qualities are described as subject and attributes; and thus a man's faculties and acts are attributes of which he is the subject. The mind is the subject in which ideas inhere. Moreover, the man's faculties and acts are employed upon external objects; and from objects all his sensations arise. Hence the part of a man's knowledge which belongs to his own mind, is subjective: that which flows in upon him from the world external to him, is objective. William Whewell
knowledge possession labor
Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession -a property entirely our own. Samuel Smiles
knowledge knows
Indeed he knows not how to know who knows not also how to un-know. Richard Francis Burton
knowledge proportion objects
The worth and value of knowledge is in proportion to the worth and value of its object. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
knowledge giving mind
Every human being whose mind is not debauched, will be willing to give all that he has to get knowledge. Samuel Johnson
knowledge men wife
All knowledge is of itself of some value. There is nothing so minute or inconsiderable, that I would not rather know it than not. In the same manner, all power, of whatever sort, is of itself desirable. A man would not submit to learn to hem a ruffle, of his wife, or his wife's maid; but if a mere wish could attain it, he would rather wish to be able to hem a ruffle.
knowledge mean mind
To understand the works of celebrated authors, to comprehend their systems, and retain their reasonings, is a task more than equal to common intellects; and he is by no means to be accounted useless or idle, who has stored his mind with acquired knowledge, and can detail it occasionally to others who have less leisure or weaker abilities.
skills well-being wells
Happiness and well-being are actually best regarded as skills. Richard Davidson
skills way juxtaposition
The photo collage is a way to travel that must be used with skill and precision if we are to arrive... The collage as a flexible hieroglyph language of juxtaposition: A collage makes a statement. William S. Burroughs
skills talking president
When you're president, you learn to act like you know what you're talking about. And it's a great skill. William J. Clinton
skills shame rashness
To be rash is to be bold without shame and without skill. Roger Ascham
skills littles sticks
Learning to shoot firearms to me is a little like driving stick - it seems like a decent skill to have. Sarah Wayne Callies
skills criticism spleen
There are come Critics so with Spleen diseased, They scarcely come inclining to be pleased: And sure he must have more than mortal Skill, Who please one against his Will. William Congreve
skills ideas boredom
We are raising a generation that has a woefully small stock of ideas and interests and emotions. It must be amused at all costs but it has little skill in amusing itself. It pays some of its members to do what the majority can no longer do for themselves. It is this inner poverty that makes for the worst kind of boredom. Robert McCracken
skills
It requires less skill to love than to be loved. Robin Skelton
skills brain victory
Like a lawyer, the human brain wants victory, not truth; and, like a lawyer, it is sometimes more admirable for skill than virtue. Robert Wright