Wise Quotes
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The people who are competing business-wise out there want what other successful labels and artists have. I don't want what they have; I want my own path, my own sound, my own identity. Record labels care nothing about identity or artistic freedom, they want good business.
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The will of God is sweet tonight, altogether ‘good and acceptable and perfect.’ The considerate love of the Lord Jesus for us seems such a kind thing now. I know it has always been so, but somehow I didn’t see how wise it was when it didn’t seem kind… Remind me of this when I cannot regard His love as considerate some time.
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Education, n. That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
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There is in human nature generally more of the fool than of the wise.
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My daughter loves stories about my childhood, and we both love discussing women's issues. She's a wise and mature ten-year-old.
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Human opinions are formed by accident and hardened by repetition. We cling to acquired opinions only because they give the illusion of being wise opinions. This creates division and hostility between people.
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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.
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The wise trusts not only to his physical eyes - thus he can see clearly.
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Ah, on what little things does happiness depend! I have read all that the wise men have written, and all the secrets of philosophy are mine, yet for want of a red rose is my life made wretched.
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Wise and humane management of the patient is the best safeguard against infection.
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To me, a wise and humane policy is occasionally to let inflation rise even when inflation is running above target.
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Robespierre listened to me with terror. He grew pale and silent for some time. This interview confirmed me in the opinion that I always had of him, that he unites the knowledge of a wise senator with the integrity of a thoroughly good man and the zeal of a true patriot but that he is lacking as a statesman in clearness of vision and determination.
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But since the devil's bride, Reason, that pretty whore, comes in and thinks she's wise, and what she says, what she thinks, is from the Holy Spirit, who can help us, then? Not judges, not doctors, no king or emperor, because reason is the Devil's greatest whore.
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If you young fellows were wise, the devil couldn't do anything to you, but since you aren't wise, you need us who are old.
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The best test of whether someone is extremely stupid (or extremely wise) is whether financial and political news makes sense to him.
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Wine can of their wits the wise beguile, Make the sage frolic, and the serious smile.
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There was a time in the mid-'50s when the Philippines was in the same league as Japan economically and academics-wise.
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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.
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I am very healthy. Career wise, even old men get to be in movies. So as long as I am healthy, I will continue to make movies.
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Statistics may be defined as "a body of methods for making wise decisions in the face of uncertainty.
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I am quite ready to acknowledge . . . that I ought to be grieved at death, if I were not persuaded that I am going to other gods who are wise and good, and to men departed who are better than those whom I leave behind. And therefore I do not grieve as I might have done, for I have good hope that there is yet something remaining for the dead.
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Of course some wars may have been necessary or inevitable, but none was ever regarded as holy. For us, a holy war is a contradiction in terms. War dehumanizes, war diminishes, war debases all those who wage it. The Talmud says, 'Talmidei hukhamim marbin shalom baolam' (It is the wise men who will bring about peace). Perhaps, because wise men remember best.
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It is always wise, as it is also fair, to test a man by the standards of his own day, and not by those of another.
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Wise is one who knows much by nature
