“Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.”
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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“Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.”
— Walter Benjamin
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“But the Wisdom of God, which is His only-begotten Son, being in all respects incapable of change or alteration, and every good quality in Him being essential, and such as cannot be changed and converted, His glory is therefore declared to be pure and sincere.”
— Origen
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“In life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by.”
— Lucille Ball
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“God the Father, the supreme Architect, had already built this cosmic home we behold, the most sacred temple of His godhead, by the laws of His mysterious wisdom.”
— Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
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“It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.”
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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“During the long process of history, by relying on our own diligence, courage and wisdom, Chinese people have opened up a good and beautiful home where all ethnic groups live in harmony and fostered an excellent culture that never fades.”
— Xi Jinping
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“Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences.”
— Plato
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“Self-suggestion makes you master of yourself.”
— W. Clement Stone
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“The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it.”
— Reinhold Niebuhr
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“Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.”
— Anatole France
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