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Quote by Anne Bradstreet
Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge, fitte

Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish. – Anne Bradstreet

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If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome. – Anne Bradstreet

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In my definition of consciousness, consciousness is the same thing as life. What wisdom traditions also call spirit. – Deepak Chopra

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Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry. – Samuel Smiles

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Saudi Arabia is a puritanical state that claims a monopoly of wisdom and virtue. – James Buchan

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I actually dont think that Im that much smarter than anybody else. Its just that I frequently just seem to know what to do, and I think thats wisdom. – Benjamin Carson

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I think that two people who decide to live together in a marriage situation, they have an obligation to make the marriage work for them. – Helen Reddy

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I think we fool ourselves and really negate a great deal of history if we think that the oral history of poetry is shorter than the written history of poetry. Its not true. Poetry has a longer oral tradition than it does written. – Saul Williams

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[N]o man is a dullard… every man is a philosopher. – Joe Kita, “What I Know,” Wisdom of Our Fathers, 1999

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That which we call sin in others is experiment for us. – Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Experience”

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