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Letter "W" » Wisdom
«Arrogance diminishes wisdom»
«A loving heart is the truest wisdom.»
«As a vessel is known by the sound, whether it be cracked or not; so men are proved, by their speeches, whether thy be wise or foolish»
Author: Demosthenes
| About:
Foolishness,
Mankind,
Speech,
Wisdom
| Keywords:
cracked, proved, Speeches, The Sound, vessel
«At the end of knowledge, wisdom begins, and at the end of wisdom, there is not grief...but hope»
«A lawyer's relationship to justice and wisdom is on a par with a piano tuner's relationship to a concert. He neither composes the music, nor interprets it-he merely keeps the machinery running.»
Author: Lucille Kallen
| About:
Justice,
Law and lawyers,
Wisdom
| Keywords:
composes, concert, concerts, interprets, in concert, Keep On Running, lawyer, machinery, par, piano, pianos, piano tuner, tuner
«A child's hand in yours-what tenderness it arouses, what power it conjures. You are instantly the very touchstone of wisdom and strength.»
Author: Marjorie Holmes
| About:
Power,
Strength,
Tenderness,
Wisdom
| Keywords:
arouses, conjure, conjured, conjures, conjure up, conjuring, instantly, tenderness, touchstone, touchstones
«A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.»
Author: John Henry Newman
(Cardinal)
| About:
Wisdom
| Keywords:
dictionary, synonymous, treatise, with wisdom
«A man's wisdom maketh his face to shine, and the boldness of his face shall be changed»
«A fool finds pleasure in evil conduct, but a man of understanding delights in wisdom»
«As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.»
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