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The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.


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The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.
SOLOMON IBN GABIROL The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.
SOLOMON IBN GABIROL BEN JUDAH To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
BERTRAND RUSSELL Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
GREEK PROVERB Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
SOCRATES Wonder is the beginning of wisdom
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IBN GABIROL There are four types of men in this world: 1. The man who knows, and knows that he knows; he is wise...
IBN GABIROL Your secret is your prisoner; once you reveal it, you become its slave.
IBN GABIROL I am better able to retract what I did not say than what I did.
IBN GABIROL Kings may be judges of the earth, but wise men are the judges of kings.
IBN GABIROL My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private.
IBN GABIROL The knowledge of God is beginning of wisdom.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA To flee vice is the beginning of virtue, and to have got rid of folly is the beginning of wisdom.
HORACE Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.
THEODORE RUBIN Kindness is more important than wisdom and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.
THEODORE ISAAC RUBIN Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.
THEODORE ISAAC RUBIN The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
SOCRATES Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.
ARISTOTLE The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.
SOCRATES Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end.
LEONARD NIMOY Doubt is the beginning, not the end, of wisdom.
GEORGE ILES Doubt is the beginning not the end of wisdom
PROVERB Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end
LEONARD NIMOY The study of history is the beginning of political wisdom
JEAN BODIN Wonder is the beginning of wisdom. -Anonymous (Greek Proverb).
GREEK PROVERB The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right names.
CHINESE PROVERB The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right names
CHINESE PROVERBS The beginning of a plot is the prompting of desire.
CHRISTOPHER LEHMANN-HAUPT Knowing that you are going to die is, I suspect, the beginning of wisdom.
TERRY PRATCHETT If the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, then the love of GOD is the apex of it!
TEMITOPE IBRAHIM Perhaps you are beginning to see how essential a part of reading it is to be perplexed and know it. ...
MORTIMER J. ADLER Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW To realize that all people are alike and all are different is the beginning of wisdom.
JEFFREY FRY There is a time when a man distinguishes the idea of felicity from the idea of wealth; it is the beg...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON The Fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instructions
ANONYMOUS I desire knowledge and wisdom.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA I have always felt that doubt was the beginning of wisdom, and the fear of God was the end of wisdom...
CLARENCE DARROW دخلتُ يوماً بقرطبةَ على قاضيها أبى الوليد بن رشد ، وكان...
IBN ARABI Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is ...
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ROBERT A. HEINLEIN It is what it is, it is what you make it.
JAMES DURBIN Know that wealth, sex-delights, power, learning are all bondage. This is the beginning of wisdom.
SWAMI SIVANANDA I know what’s wrong with me; and knowing your own flaws is the beginning of wisdom.
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SOURCE UNKNOWN A desire not to butt into other people's business is at least eighty percent of all human wisdom.
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SOLOMON IBN GABIROL Many men hoard for the future husbands of their wives.
SOLOMON IBN GABIROL Thou hast created me not from necessity but from grace.
SOLOMON IBN GABIROL And when I was born, I drew in the common air, and fell upon the earth, which is of like nature; and...
SOLOMON IBN GABIROL All men have one entrance into life, and the like going out.
SOLOMON IBN GABIROL One is punished by the very things by which he sins.
SOLOMON IBN GABIROL I am better able to retract what I did not say than what I did.
SOLOMON IBN GABIROL If you want to keep something concealed from your enemy, don't disclose it to your friend.
SOLOMON IBN GABIROL As the lily among thorns, so is my love among the daughters.
SOLOMON IBN GABIROL Jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire.
SOLOMON IBN GABIROL A wise man's question contains half the answer.
SOLOMON IBN GABIROL As long as a word remains unspoken, you are its master; once you utter it, you are its slave.
SOLOMON IBN GABIROL Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to...
SOLOMON IBN GABIROL My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private.
SOLOMON IBN GABIROL Your secret is your prisoner; once you reveal it, you become its slave.
SOLOMON IBN GABIROL Kings may be judges of the earth, but wise men are the judges of kings.
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JOY DAVIDMAN No matter how fleeting
Your smile is,
Your smile is the very beginning
Of your wisdo...
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KYARI MOHAMMED Fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge. Only Fools despise wisdom and discipline."
EDDIE JOHNSON I am Happy and satisfied with what I am. 10000 will take me wrong, 1000 will go against me, 100 will...
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ABHIJIT NASKAR He who doesn't understand history is doomed to repeat it.
PITTACUS LORE According to Diotima, Love is not a god at all, but is rather a spirit that mediates between people ...
PLATO We all are wearing many hundred glasses of different colors. So, everyone see the world in different...
MUDITHA CHAMPIKA I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is.
TED TURNER Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters.
JEFFREY FRY Between what i see in a field and what I see in another field
There passes for a moment the fig...
ALBERTO CAEIRO To stand on the
brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeli...
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LUCE IRIGARAY It is a lie.
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