Wise Quotes
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The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.
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I had a very wise mother. She always kept books that were my grade level in our house.
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I think if I did something in the pop world right now, it would be for Rihanna. I'd love to do something production wise for her.
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Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment the treasurer, of a wise man.
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To be wise means to be a teacher, means to be a soul winner. That's our business - That's our only business!
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Or yet in wise old Ravenclaw, if you've a ready mind, Where those of wit and learning, Will always find their kind.
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Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.
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Nationalism in Norway was very strong in 1905, that we must be free of Sweden. But I must say, I'm not 100 percent sure that was a wise decision. We had the war; we were occupied by Germans from 1940 to '45. And if there had been one Scandinavian country, then it would not have been so very easy probably to go ahead with the occupation.
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I understand that it would be smart, career-wise, to line up something, but it wouldn't be smart for my personal life or my sanity. Some people thrive when they're working. I thrive when I'm hanging out with my friends and doing yoga.
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Even a fool knows you can't touch the stars, but it won't keep the wise from trying.
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God saw fit, for wise reasons to allow the people of Israel thus to make and possess slaves; but is this any license to us to enslave any of our fellow-men, to kill any of our fellow-men whom we please and are able to destroy, and take possession of their estates?
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I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.
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He that is rich is wise.
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My mother went to university, my father didn't. But they are very educated, very wise people. My father went to the military, so he's worldly.
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The wise are wise only because they love.
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A wise lover values not so much the gift of the lover as the love of the giver.
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Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.
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Of what's to come the wise perceive things about to happen. Sometimes during moments of intense study their hearing's troubled: the hidden sound of things approaching reaches them, and they listen reverently, while in the street outside the people hear nothing whatsoever.
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Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable.
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I grew up in Germany for a little while, and all my German friends said that Seattle, weather and energy-wise, is a lot like West Germany. It's true.
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Of the 25 songs we've recorded there were 24 that we wanted to have on an album. That wouldn't have worked. So when one of our wise managers suggested the idea of considering two different album, it cleared the way for us.
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Let wise men piece the world together with wisdom Or poets with holy magic. Hey-di-ho.
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God alone fully understands what each one of us needs; we make mistakes continually and pray for things which would be harmful to us if we received them. Afterwards we see our mistakes and realize that God is good and wise in not giving us these things, even though we plead ever so earnestly for them.
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At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time.
