Kindness is more important than wisdom and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.


Theodore Isaac Rubin

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Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.
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Kindness is wisdom.
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Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
GREEK PROVERB
Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
SOCRATES
Wonder is the beginning of wisdom
GREEK PROVERB
What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?
JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU
What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?
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Inner wisdom is more important than wealth. The more you spend it, the more you gain.
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The knowledge of God is beginning of wisdom.
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THE TALMUD
The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
SOCRATES
My wisdom absent of God’s wisdom is nothing more than a best-guess.
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Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.
ARISTOTLE
To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
BERTRAND RUSSELL
The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.
SOLOMON IBN GABIROL
The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.
IBN GABIROL
The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.
SOLOMON IBN GABIROL BEN JUDAH
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
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The study of history is the beginning of political wisdom
JEAN BODIN
Wonder is the beginning of wisdom. -Anonymous (Greek Proverb).
GREEK PROVERB
Kindness is true wisdom—not cleverness.
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The activity of loving kindness is the bridge that allows you to slowly, slowly realise the wisdom a...
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To flee vice is the beginning of virtue, and to have got rid of folly is the beginning of wisdom.
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The end is the matter! A step to the end is a factor!
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Please be SILENT and LISTEN.
I am the SCHOOLMASTER
and you are in the CLASSROOM.
Just...
PSEUDONYMOUS BOSCH
She openeth her mouth with wisdom; and in her tongue is the law of kindness.
BIBLE
Kindness and wisdom is the pathway leading to GOD'S LOVE! -Clara.
CLARA
All the beauty of wisdom and knowledge resides in kindness.
DEBASISH MRIDHA
Know that wealth, sex-delights, power, learning are all bondage. This is the beginning of wisdom.
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Wisdom is a true activity of compassion. And so, meditation is the act of loving kindness. It is the...
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Wisdom is the most important part of happiness.
SOPHOCLES
The Fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instructions
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We all are wearing many hundred glasses of different colors. Therefore, everyone sees the world in d...
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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
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The more you know, the less you need.
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An ounce of wisdom is worth more than a pound of knowledge.
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Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.
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Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.
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The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction. King S...
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We all are wearing many hundred glasses of different colors. So, everyone see the world in different...
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Kindness is wisdom. There is none in life But needs it and may learn.
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Knowing that you are going to die is, I suspect, the beginning of wisdom.
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To realize that all people are alike and all are different is the beginning of wisdom.
JEFFREY FRY
I know what’s wrong with me; and knowing your own flaws is the beginning of wisdom.
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Good deeds allied to the pleasure of God are sure to cultivate kindness and wisdom.
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No light is brighter than wisdom, wisdom is the light in the world.
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Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.
SOURCE UNKNOWN
The machines do not solve problems with greater insight than men do, only faster. Only faster!
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The fruit of wisdom is better than gold
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Strength is the vitality and virility of Wisdom. Beauty is the apparitional status of Wisdom. Wisdom...
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If the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, then the love of GOD is the apex of it!
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Wisdom is greater than knowledge,but imagination is greater than both wisdom & knowledge.
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Only the strong will remain, all the weak will be consumed by fire
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Facts and science without the presence of wisdom and reason are worth a little less than nothing, wh...
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There is a wisdom of the head, and... there is a wisdom of the heart.
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Beauty is the wisdom of women. Wisdom is the beauty of men.
CHINESE PROVERB
Beauty is the wisdom of women. Wisdom is the beauty of men.
CHINESE PROVERBS
Better than the strength of men and horses is our wisdom.
XENOPHANES
There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.
CHARLES DICKENS
There is a wisdom of the head, and... a wisdom of the heart.
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The secret of my success is my hairspray.
RICHARD GERE
Love is blind, and a deaf-mute too.
PATRICK ROTHFUSS
Understanding the limitations of human beings as well as understanding your own is the beginning of ...
SOURCE UNKNOWN
There is very little recognition that the conscience of the woman is as important, let alone more im...
FRANCES KISSLING
Life requires more than a whisper of wisdom
JULIAN PENCILLIAH
Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning ... and there is wisdom in the ...
BERGEN EVANS
Wisdom is meaningless until your own experience has given it meaning and there is wisdom in the sele...
BERGEN EVENS
Wisdom is meaningless until your own experience has given it meaning and there is wisdom in the sele...
BERGEN EVANS
Fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge. Only Fools despise wisdom and discipline."
EDDIE JOHNSON
Wisdom is a shelter as money is a shelter, but the advantage of knowledge is this: that wisdom prese...
KING SOLOMON
[T]here is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
BERGEN EVANS
Beauty is the index of a larger fact than wisdom.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES
Seek wisdom, not knowledge. Knowledge is of the past, Wisdom is of the future.
AMERICAN INDIAN PROVERB
The highest form of intelligence is wisdom; the highest form of wisdom is love.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO
No one should let yesterday use up too much of today. Easy to say, hard to live.
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A shade of sorrow passed over Taliesin's face. 'There are those,' he said gently, 'who must first le...
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Many people think that love represents chains, bondage, the opposite of freedom. But people who beli...
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Men have two greatest fears: the first fear is the fear of being needed, and the second fear is the ...
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With no more sign of wisdom than a beard.
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There is a time when a man distinguishes the idea of felicity from the idea of wealth; it is the beg...
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If kindness wins, accountability rules.
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Pure, holy simplicity confounds all the wisdom of this world and the wisdom of the flesh.
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THEODORE PARKER
Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect.
THEODORE PARKER
The spirit of brotherhood recognizes of necessity both the need of self-help and also the need of he...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
[America is] a rebellious nation. Our whole history is treason; our blood was attained before we wer...
THEODORE PARKER
My hat is in the ring.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he should be able and willing...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft!
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
The men with the muck-rake are often indispensable to the well-being of society, but only if they k...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
Americanism means the virtues of courage, honor, justice, truth, sincerity, and hardihood—the virt...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting, but never hit soft.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
A man who is good enough to shed his blood for his country is good enough to be given a square dea...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure,...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
Every man owes a part of his time and money to the business or industry in which he is engaged. No ...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure t...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
We can have no "50-50" allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing else, or...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart, and that is softness of head.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
Here is your country. Cherish these natural wonders, cherish the natural resources, cherish the hist...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
No man needs sympathy because he has to work. Far and away the best prize that life offers is the ch...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
Politeness [is] a sign of dignity, not subservience.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants them to do, a...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
No man is above the law and no man is below it; nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him t...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
Why do we kill people who are killing people to show that killing people is wrong?
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
We are not put on earth for ourselves, but are placed here for each other. If you are there always f...
THEODORE REIK
Justice consists not in being neutral between right and wrong, but in finding out the right and upho...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
A mind too active is no mind at all.
THEODORE ROETHKE
If I have erred, I err in company with Abraham Lincoln.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
Knowing what's right doesn't mean much unless you do what's right.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other pu...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the Preside...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
The things that will destroy America are prosperity at any price, peace at any price, safety first i...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
Magnificent promises are always to be suspected.
THEODORE PARKER