Wise Quotes
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Men frequently think that the evils in the world are more numerous than the good things; many sayings and songs of the nations dwell on this idea. ...Not only common people make this mistake, but even many who think they are wise.
Maimonides
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Very many maintain that all we know is still infinitely less than all that still remains unknown; nor do philosophers pin their faith to others' precepts in such wise that they lose their liberty, and cease to give credence to the conclusions of their proper senses. Neither do they swear such fealty to their mistress Antiquity that they openly, and in sight of all, deny and desert their friend Truth.
William Harvey
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Stimulation-wise, I might be a little bit addicted when it comes to pushing my body to extremes.
Takeru Kobayashi
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It is a wise man who knows where courage ends and stupidity begins.
Jerome Cady
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You are keeping the possibility [of peace] open. No wise leader would do anything less.
Patrick Ness
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To form a truly free constitution, that’s to say, truly just and wise, the first point, the main point, the capital point, is that all the laws be agreed on by the people, after considered reflection, and especially having taken time to see what’s at stake…
Jean-Paul Marat
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I think the hardest thing to do in the world, show-business-wise, is write comedy.
Carol Burnett
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Wise is one who knows much by nature
Pindar
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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.
H. G. Wells
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All teems with symbol; the wise man is the man who in any one thing can read another.
Plotinus
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We need to have complete certainty that things will work out, not because we are righteous or wise, but because of the time, the effort, the prayers, and the tools we are using. From the moment we are given awareness about some bigger picture or mission, we have to have complete focus on what to do to get to that place.
Yehuda Berg
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My breadth of football experience, my injury history, and my all-or-nothing goal to become one of the best linebackers in the NFL, combined with all I'd been learning about the game's neurological effects on the brain, convinced me I'd be wise in choosing another career.
Chris Borland
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If you still think me mad, you will think so no longer when I describe the wise precautions I took for the concealment of the body. The night waned, and I worked hastily, but in silence. First of all I dismembered the corpse. I cut off the head and the arms and the legs.
Edgar Allan Poe
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Fate is the friend of the good, the guide of the wise, the tyrant of the foolish, the enemy of the bad.
William R. Alger
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Enough is abundance to the wise.
Euripides
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Would we if we could, educate and sophisticate pigs, geese, cattle? Would it be wise to establish diplomatic relations with the hen that now functions, satisfied with mere sense of achievement by way of compensation? I think we're property'
Charles Fort
