“ God has graced every tradition with insight into the divine mystery, from the most primitive to the most sophisticated-each has a gift to bring to the world. ”
- Bede Griffiths- Copy
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“ Good instincts usually tell you what to do long before your head has figured it out. ”
- Michael Burke- Copy
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“ Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding. For the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold. ”
- The Bible- Copy
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“ The wisdom of the ignorant somewhat resembles the instinct of animals; it is diffused in but a very narrow sphere, but within the circle it acts with vigor, uniformity, and success. ”
- Oliver Goldsmith- Copy
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“ Never, no, never did Nature say one thing and Wisdom say another. ”
- Edmund Burke- Copy
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“ Though wisdom cannot be gotten for gold, still less can be gotten without it. ”
- Samuel Butler- Copy
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“ The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. ”
- Marcel Proust- Copy
- 492
“ I know what I have given you. I do not know what you have received. ”
- Antonio Porchia- Copy
- 2K
“ I am particularly delighted that so many of the members of the evaluation commission are on this team. They already have a great insight about our plans, aspirations and visions. ”
- Sebastian Coe- Copy
- 430
“ I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean. ”
- Socrates- Copy
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“ When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought And with old woes now wail my dear time's waste. Then can I drown an eye For precious friends hid in death's dateless night, and weep afresh love's long since cancelled woe, and moan the expense of many a vanished sight… ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ It gives us a great deal of insight into the way government does business. Whether or not you find Ryan guilty, you see the relation of lobbyists to government contracts and how the process of spending the people's money is determined. ”
- Don Rose- Copy
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“ Miracles seem to rest, not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from far off, but upon our perceptions being made finer so that for a moment our eyes can see and our ears can hear that which is about us always. - Willa Cather. ”
- Willa Cather- Copy
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“ It should be noted that the seeds of wisdom that are to bear fruit in the intellect are sown less by critical studies and learned monographs than by insights, broad impressions, and flashes of intuition. ”
- Carl von Clausewitz- Copy
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“ Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the world consists, other, new insights begin. ”
- Herman Hesse- Copy
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“ If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things. ”
- Vincent van Gogh- Copy
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“ During periods of relaxation after concentrated intellectual activity, the intuitive mind seems to take over and can produce the sudden clarifying insights which give so much joy and delight. ”
- Fritjof Capra- Copy
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“ Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight. ”
- Helen Keller- Copy
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“ A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding. ”
- Marshall McLuhan- Copy
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“ Ages when custom is unsettled are necessarily ages of prophecy. The moralist cannot teach what is revealed; he must reveal what can be taught. He has to seek insight rather than to preach. ”
- Walter Lippmann- Copy
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“ All of the top achievers I know are life-long learners… Looking for new skills, insights, and ideas. If they're not learning, they're not growing… not moving toward excellence. ”
- Denis Waitley- Copy
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