Wise Quotes
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But I think I have done right to save the vision in this way, even though I may die sooner because I did it; for I know the meaning of the vision is wise and beautiful and good; and you can see that I am only a pitiful old man after all.
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The birds did not understand a single word of what he was saying, but that made no matter, for they put their heads on one side, and looked wise, which is quite as good as understanding a thing, and very much easier.
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When the ignorant have become numerous or powerful enough, they have been referred to by a special name. This names is 'the Wise'.
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Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable.
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I went to a public high school that had a very small graduating class of 156 students. I lived a relatively normal childhood until I turned probably around 16. Things started to take off career-wise.
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Fools make researches and wise men exploit them-that is our earthly way of dealing with the question, and we thank Heaven for an assumed abundance of financially impotent and sufficiently ingenious fools.
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True love is not a strong, fiery, impetuous passion. It is, on the contrary, an element calm and deep. It looks beyond mere externals, and is attracted by qualities alone. It is wise and discriminating, and its devotion is real and abiding.
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Christian, learn from Christ how you ought to love Christ. Learn a love that is tender, wise, strong; love with tenderness, not passion, wisdom, not foolishness, and strength, lest you become weary and turn away from the love of the Lord.
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I think I happened to work with sort of a bunch of slightly difficult male directors when I was a kid. I've since worked with lots of male directors that I love, so I no longer see the distinction gender-wise.
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What a wise man knows seems so plain and simple to himself that he easily makes the mistake of thinking it to be so for others.
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When I am talking to people who I feel don't like me or are mean, I get really shy, and I kind of curl up personality wise.
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Will people ever be wise enough to refuse to follow bad leaders or to take away the freedom of other people? (16 October 1939)
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It is a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals.
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I'm very positive - music-wise, production-wise and life-wise.
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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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The only difference between a wise man and a fool is that the wise man knows he's playing.
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Law is nothing else but the best reason of wise men applied for ages to the transactions and business of mankind.
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All teems with symbol; the wise man is the man who in any one thing can read another.
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What shelter to grow ripe is ours? What leisure to grow wise?
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I hold no dream of fortune vast,Nor seek undying fame.I do not ask when life is pastThat many know my name.I may not own the skill to riseTo glory's topmost height,Nor win a place among the wise,But I can keep the right.And I can live my life on earthContented to the end,If but a few shall know my worthAnd proudly call me friend.
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And ninety-nine percent of the human race, no matter how smart they are, will do the convenient thing instead of the wise thing, and kid themselves into thinking they can somehow escape the consequences. We’re just built that way.
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I often feel like I have this spirit living inside of me, always dressing in like short mini skirts... but then I start to discover myself. So there are eight spirits, mischievous ones, sad ones, handsome ones, wise ones, and crazy ones.
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There's a lot of people I've encouraged and helped to get into the House of Commons. Looking at them now, I'm not so sure it was a wise thing to do.
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I would employ the wise and strong of the empire, using righteousness to lead them. In this way, nothing is impossible.
