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“Wisdom is not book learning but, rather, a quality or state of knowing what is true or right coupled with the judgment to discern constructive action. Wisdom is the insight and intuition contained in the proverbial still, small voice that only a quiet mind can hear and know.”

Knows Mind Stills Book States Wisdom Action Voice Quality Knowing Quiet Judgment Insight Intuition Constructive Proverbial Small Voice Book Learning

Book:The Mindful Woman: Gentle Practices for Restoring Calm, Finding Balance, and Opening Your Heart

Source: The Mindful Woman: Gentle Practices for Restoring Calm, Finding Balance, and Opening Your Heart

“Some virtues, when they become fashions, also become exaggerated. Just because nobody likes a judgmental attitude does not mean that there isn't a sort of spoiled, self-righteous hypocrisy when one man obsessively commands other men not to judge without knowing the circumstances without himself, too, knowing their circumstances behind their judgments.”

Men Mean Doe Self Behinds Attitude Knowing Virtue Fashion Judging Circumstances Judgment Likes Command Hypocrisy One Man Righteous Spoiled Exaggerated Judgmental Mental Attitude Self Righteous

Author:Criss Jami

“You can tell a man's taste in literature by his judgment in knowing what not to read.”

Men Literature Knowing Taste Judgment

Author:Evan Esar

“It is concern that precedes and inspires agendas, and survives when agendas fail, and it causes us to try again, always trying our best, never certain about our own judgment. It is knowing that God's purpose exceeds whatever we can put in an agenda.”

Trying Purpose Certain Causes Knowing Failing Inspire Judgment Concern Agendas Exceed Always Trying Try Again Trying Our Best

Author:John C. Danforth

“We judge other according to results; how else?--not knowing the process by which results are arrived at.”

Process Results Knowing Judging Judgment Not Knowing

Book:Four Novels of George Eliot

Source: Four Novels of George Eliot

“Showed good business judgment, knowing that these continued lawsuits would be the untimely death of the gun industry.”

Would Be Knowing Industry Judgment Gun Lawsuit Good Business Untimely Death

Author:Andrew Cuomo

“[W]e shall have the satisfaction of knowing that we have acted conscientiously, and have used our best judgment. And if we have to throw away our votes, we had better do so upon a worthy rather than an unworthy individual who might make use of the weapon we put in his hand to destroy us.”

Ifs Use Hands Might Used Individual Knowing Judgment Weapons Vote Satisfaction Worthy Unworthy

Author:Joseph Smith, Jr.

“It is important to remember that value investing is not a perfect science. It is an, with an ongoing need for judgment, refinement, patience, and reflection. It requires endless curiosity, the relentless pursuit of additional information, the raising of questions, and the search for answers. It necessitates dealing with imperfect information - knowing you will never know everything and that that must not prevent you from acting. It requires a precarious balance between conviction, steadfastness in the face of adversity, and doubt - keeping in mind the possibility that you could be wrong.”

“Knowing is different from doing and therefore theory must never be used as norms for a standard, but merely as aids to judgment.”

Different Used Knowing Theory Judgment Standards Aids Norm

Author:Carl von Clausewitz

“Without faith in his own judgment no man can go very far in this game. That is about all I have learned - to study general conditions, to take a position and stick to it. I can wait without a twinge of impatience. I can see a setback without being shaken, knowing that it is only temporary.”

Men I Can Games Waiting Knowing Study Conditions Position Judgment Sticks Temporary I Have Learned Impatience Setback

Author:Jesse Lauriston Livermore

“All of us have many habits of whose import we are quite unaware, since they were formed without our knowing what we were about. Consequently they possess us, rather than we them. They move us; they control us. Unless we become aware of what they accomplish, and pass judgment upon the worth of the result, we do not control them.”

Moving Results Knowing Habit Judgment Accomplish Imports

Book:Democracy and Education - An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education

Source: Democracy and Education - An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education