Plutarch Quotes
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Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance.
Isaac Asimov -
Rushing to war is not a wise course of action.
Zbigniew Brzezinski -
The man who can keep a secret may be wise, but he is not half as wise as the man with no secrets to keep.
E. W. Howe -
This character in the film, these things that he says which sound like advice and wise things, they are very common for Orientals. It's all the tradition.
Omar Sharif -
It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods.
H. L. Mencken -
I don't know what I'm qualified to do, film-wise... So it's really down to a director or a casting director to find something that they think I could do.
Larry Mullen, Jr. U2
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Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
H. G. Wells -
A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.
Samuel Johnson -
Product-wise, I use a morning and night cleanser. I'm really not a brand person.
Halima Aden -
It takes a wise man to recognize a wise man.
Xenophanes -
The wise become as the unwise in the enchanted chambers of Power, whose lamps make every face the same colour.
Walter Savage Landor -
The All-Wise Maker attaches hundreds of instances of wisdom to each of the beings in the palace of the universe and equips them to perform hundreds of duties. To all trees He bestows instances of wisdom to the number of its fruits and gives duties to the number of its flowers.
Said Nursi
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I write for children because I am interested in fantasy and the possibilities for experience of all kinds before the time of compromise. I believe that children are far more perceptive and wise than American books give them credit for being.
Natalie Babbitt -
Everybody gets typecast in movies, but you have to make wise choices. I'd say around 90 percent of movie casting is about the way you look, so you have to fight that. If producers had their way, I'd only be in action films, but I'm interested in a more varied career than that.
Famke Janssen -
I was meant to be a composer and will be I'm sure. Don't ask me to try to forget this unpleasant thing and go play football – please.
Samuel Barber -
The wise are above books.
Samuel Daniel -
Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
Samuel Johnson -
Above all, I would not expect a wise race, at great expense, to set loose an army of self-replicating robots.
Barney Oliver
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What shelter to grow ripe is ours? What leisure to grow wise?
Matthew Arnold -
You cant please all the people all the time.
Miranda Richardson -
Alas! that all we loved of him should be, But for our grief, as if it had not been, And grief itself be mortal! Woe is me! Whence are we, and why are we? of what scene The actors or spectators?
Percy Bysshe Shelley -
One of the high points of my life was when I suddenly realized that this dream I had in my late adolescence of combining pure mathematics, very pure mathematics with very hard things which had been long a nuisance to scientists and to engineers, that this combination was possible and I put together this new geometry of nature, the fractal geometry of nature.
Benoit Mandelbrot -
To please the many is to displease the wise.
Plutarch