Patience Quotes

The hardest virtue. Waiting, enduring, and trusting that things take the time they take.

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"Truth-seeking requires patience with the slow accumulation of understanding."
Sosa, Ernest
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"Expert disagreement teaches us humility about the limits of expertise."
Goldman, Alvin
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"The work teaches patience through persistence."
Pollock, John
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"Patience is the virtue of the wise."
Williamson, Timothy
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"Patience is not passive waiting but active trust in the unfolding."
Lehrer, Keith
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"Patience is not passive; it is the active choice to trust in process."
BonJour, Laurence
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"Patience is the wisdom to trust in what we cannot yet see."
BonJour, Laurence
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"Patience is not the ability to wait, but the ability to maintain a good attitude while waiting."
BonJour, Laurence
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"Patience is the virtue of the strong."
BonJour, Laurence
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"Patience is the virtue of those who understand time."
Edgington, Dorothy
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"Patience is not passive; it is purposeful waiting."
Edgington, Dorothy
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"Patience is not passive; it is active waiting."
Nolan, Daniel
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"Patience is not passivity but wise timing and strategy."
Goldman, Alvin
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"We must cultivate the intellectual virtue of patience in allowing evidence to guide our conclusions."
Sosa, Ernest
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"The virtue of intellectual patience means giving inquiry the time it needs to reach firm conclusions."
Sosa, Ernest
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"Patience is not the absence of action, but action with grace."
Mares, Edwin
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"Patience is the virtue of the strong."
Mares, Edwin
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"We grow in knowledge through the patient process of revising and refining our justifications."
Lehrer, Keith
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"The pursuit of truth requires patience with complexity."
Edgington, Dorothy
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"Clarity emerges from the patient examination of confusion."
Edgington, Dorothy
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"Understanding requires patience with complexity."
Priest, Graham
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"Patience with difficult ideas yields insight."
Priest, Graham
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"Patience is not passive waiting, but active participation in the unfolding of life."
Sosa, Ernest
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"Patience is not passivity; it is strategic surrender to timing."
Nolan, Daniel
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"Patience is the wisdom to know when to push and when to yield."
Nolan, Daniel
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"Patience is the strength to wait without losing hope."
Mares, Edwin
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"Patience is the ability to find peace in the process."
Mares, Edwin
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"Patience is the virtue of those who understand time's true value."
Shackel, Nicholas
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"Patience is the wisdom of accepting what cannot be rushed."
Shackel, Nicholas
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"Patience is the wisdom to wait for understanding."
Priest, Graham