Wise Quotes
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Hold back your mind from pride, for pride comes only from ignorance. The man who does not know thinks that he is great, that he has done this or that great thing; the wise man knows that only God is great, that all good work is done by God alone.
Jiddu Krishnamurti -
Reckless action is worse than wise restraint.
Danielle Trussoni
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Concerning the female sorcerer. Roman law also prescribes this. Why does the law name women more than men here, even though men are also guilty of this? Because women are more susceptible to those superstitions of Satan; take Eve, for example. They are commonly called 'wise women.' Let them be killed.
Martin Luther -
To be wise means to be a teacher, means to be a soul winner. That's our business - That's our only business!
J. Frank Norris -
Enough is abundance to the wise.
Euripides -
They would need to be already wise, in order to love wisdom.
Friedrich Schiller -
Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.
Jean de La Fontaine -
I will say this: I know no wise person who doesn't read a lot. I suspect that you can read on the computer now and get a lot of benefit out of it, but I doubt that it'll work as well as reading print worked for me.
Charlie Munger
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Manmohan Singh is a wise, wonderful man.
Barack Obama -
In cloud-ships the gods are wont to travel, and wise cotters have legends that keep them from certain high peaks at night when it is cloudy, for the gods are not lenient as of old.
H. P. Lovecraft -
The wise man lives as long as he should, not just as long as he likes.
Seneca the Younger -
Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak, and to speak well, are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks...
Ben Jonson -
These notices had been written by Christopher Robin, who was the only one in the forest who could spell; for Owl, wise though he was in many ways, able to read and write and spell his own name WOL, yet somehow went all to pieces over delicate words like MEASLES and BUTTEREDTOAST.
A. A. Milne -
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.
Taylor Swift
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Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.
Plautus -
Be wise; soar not too high to fall; but stoop to rise.
Philip Massinger -
It is a wise man who knows where courage ends and stupidity begins.
Jerome Cady -
The wise man is he who knows the relative value of things.
Dean Inge -
Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.
Charles Caleb Colton -
The wound of peace is surety, Surety secure; but modest doubt is called The beacon of the wise, the tent that searches To th' bottom of the worst.
William Shakespeare
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Those who are wise won't be busy, and those who are too busy can't be wise.
Lin Yutang -
Things that we need to learn are the importance of establishing brand, establishing market presence. Technology-wise, it's things like ease of use, user interfaces; all of these things that tend to be less important in our other business segments are important things for us in the consumer market.
Charles Giancarlo -
Wise men never grow up; indeed, they grow younger, for they lose the appalling worldly wisdom of youth.
John Buchan -
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.
Edward Heath