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Kutipan (Quote) - Wisdom (4)

When I can look life in the eyes, grown calm and very coldly wise, life will have given me the truth, and taken in exchange - my youth.
Sara Teasdale

Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.
Sophocles

Of prosperity mortals can never have enough.
Aeschylus

He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself at twenty.
Mary Wilson Little

The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.
Napoleon Bonaparte

What is man's ultimate direction in life? It is to look for love, truth, virtue, and beauty.
Shinichi Suzuki

Wise men make more opportunities than they find.
Francis Bacon

Some folks are wise and some are otherwise.
Tobias Smollett

You can't sweep other people off their feet, if you can't be swept off your own.
Clarence Day

Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
Alexander Pope

It is much more difficult to measure nonperformance than performance.
Harold S. Geneen

Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.
Walter Benjamin

Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.
David Herbert Lawrence

Public opinion is no more than this: what people think that other people think.
Alfred Austin

In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.
Arthur Schopenhauer

You must accept responsibility for your actions, but not the credit for your achievements.
Denis Waitley

The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
William Faulkner

People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.
Anton Chekhov

It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.
Arthur Conan Doyle

Self-suggestion makes you master of yourself.
W. Clement Stone

It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary.
Richard Whately

Spectacular achievement is always preceded by unspectacular preparation.
Robert H. Schuller

Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.
Jean Paul

Wise kings generally have wise counselors; and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one.
Diogenes

The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense.
Dean Inge

Rarely promise, but, if lawful, constantly perform.
William Penn

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

Wisdom begins at the end.
Daniel Webster

Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
Alan Kay

Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action.
Thomas B. Macaulay

The difference between chirping out of turn and a faux pas depends on what kind of a bar you're in.
Wilson Mizner

It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.
William Ralph Inge

The future has already arrived. It's just not evenly distributed yet.
William Gibson

Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.
Phil Jackson

Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
David Starr Jordan

If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe.
Lord Salisbury

The opportunity for brotherhood presents itself every time you meet a human being.
Jane Wyman

Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.
Juvenal

The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
Alan Kay

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

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