Wise Quotes
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I pray Heaven to bestow the best of blessings on this house and all that shall hereafter inhabit it. May none but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof.
John Adams -
The world has been made by fools that wise men may live in it.
Oscar Wilde
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We are braver and wiser because they existed, those strong women and strong men... We are who we are because they were who they were. It's wise to know where you come from, who called your name.
Maya Angelou -
Originally I was supposed to do Grand Prix, but I was under contract to 20th Century Fox at that time and Alex North was supposed to do Sand Pebbles, but he got sick, so Fox preempted me out of Grand Prix, and to my good fortune, I got to do Sand Pebbles. It was my first time working with Robert Wise and it was a great experience.
Jerry Goldsmith -
People do not naturally become morally excellent or practically wise. They become so, if at all, only as the result of lifelong personal and community effort.
Aristotle -
As for omens, there is no such thing as an omen. Destiny does not send us heralds. She is too wise or too cruel for that.
Oscar Wilde -
We live in an age that reads too much to be wise, and that thinks too much to be beautiful.
Oscar Wilde -
Yesterday I was clever, so I changed the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.
Rumi
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Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise.
Samuel Lover -
A wise woman wishes to be no one's enemy; a wise woman refuses to be anyone's victim.
Maya Angelou -
Even the wise need wisdom.
Sara Evans -
I'm not trying to sound like I turned into some kind of wise man, but it's nice to realize that your little pocket of the world isn't the whole world.
Chris Kattan -
If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one, but the wise man is foolish to give them the lie.
W. Somerset Maugham -
Those who are truly wise will remain unmoved by feelings of happiness and suffering, fame and disgrace, praise and blame, gain and loss.They will remain calm like the eye of a hurricane.
Gautama Buddha
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When we were subjected to a vicious character assassination campaign orchestrated by senior White House officials and championed by their allies in the right-wing echo chamber, Hillary reached out to us. Her counsel during that tumultuous period was as timely as it was wise.
Valerie Plame -
I'd like to be very wise.
Duffy -
Perhaps I am not as wise as I like to think I am.
Umberto Eco -
One of the pitfalls of writing about illness is that it is very easy to imagine people with cancer as either these wise, beyond-their-years creatures or else these sad-eyed, tragic people. And the truth is people living with cancer are very much like people who are not living with cancer.
John Green -
A lot of people look at playing overseas as a step down from the NBA. And, yes it is a step down from the NBA money-wise, but there is just as good of talent overseas as in the NBA. Not better talent.
Udonis Haslem -
Luck never made a man wise.
Seneca the Younger
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Happiness itself is sufficient excuse. Beautiful things are right and true; so beautiful actions are those pleasing to the gods. Wise men have an inward sense of what is beautiful, and the highest wisdom is to trust this intuition and be guided by it. The answer to the last appeal of what is right lies within a man's own breast. Trust thyself.
Aristotle -
The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
Baltasar Gracian -
Film wise, I invariably look at my work and reckon I could have done it better. I'm also conscious that I'm in a profession where we get more praise than we should compared to the usefulness of what we do.
Jeremy Irons -
Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
Quintilian