Wise Quotes
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Sweet songs of youth, the wise, the meeting of all wisdom To believe in the good in man.
John Roy Anderson
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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.
John Lancaster Spalding
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Though lust do masque in ne'er so strange disguise she's oft found witty, but is never wise.
John Webster
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It is a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals.
Felix Frankfurter
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Sometimes you can tell a wise person not only by what he says but also by what he doesn't say. Remember, it is much better to say little than to say too much and regret it later.
Christian Slater
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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.
Bai Ling
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The wise are above books.
Samuel Daniel
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Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots.
Karl Kraus
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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.
Ellen G. White
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There are two things which make it impossible to believe that this world is the successful work of an all-wise, all-good, and, at the same time, all-powerful Being; firstly, the misery which abounds in it everywhere; and secondly, the obvious imperfection of its highest product, man, who is a burlesque of what he should be.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable.
John Patrick
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Phoebe Wolkind Ephron cracked wise like Dorothy Parker and looked like Katharine Hepburn.
Hallie Ephron
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What shelter to grow ripe is ours? What leisure to grow wise?
Matthew Arnold
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You can be very wild and still be very wise.
Yoko Ono
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To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.
Edmund Burke
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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'.
Idries Shah
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You can have no wise laws nor free enforcement of wise laws unless there is free expression of the wisdom of the people -- and, alas, their folly with it. But if there is freedom, folly will die of its own poison, and the wisdom will survive.
William Allen White
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A prince, the moment he is crown'd,Inherits every virtue sound,As emblems of the sovereign power,Like other baubles in the Tower:Is generous, valiant, just, and wise,And so continues till he dies.
Prince
