Wise Quotes
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Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
Quintilian
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Usually my characters, though young, tend to be street-wise.
Rachel Cohn
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Many people know how to get money, but few know how to keep it. Wise investments are always based on information, Johannes, so the more you know, the better.
Louis L'Amour
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If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one, but the wise man is foolish to give them the lie.
W. Somerset Maugham
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It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods.
H. L. Mencken
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It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.
Epictetus
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Titles are marks of honest men, and wise;The fool or knave that wears a title lies.
Edward Young
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Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.
Benjamin Franklin
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All that glitters is not gold; Often have you heard that told: Many a man his life has sold But my outside to behold: Gilded tombs do worms enfold Had you been as wise as bold, Your in limbs, in judgment old, Your answer had not been in'scroll'd Fare you well: your suit is cold.' Cold, indeed, and labour lost: Then, farewell, heat and welcome, frost!
William Shakespeare
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It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to.
Fannie Hurst
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Make the wise man within you your living ideal.
Karl G. Maeser
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And what has been hidden from the wise and the prudent been revealed in the mouth of the toddlers.
Bob Marley
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Everybody gets typecast in movies, but you have to make wise choices. I'd say around 90 percent of movie casting is about the way you look, so you have to fight that. If producers had their way, I'd only be in action films, but I'm interested in a more varied career than that.
Famke Janssen
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The wise man knows how to run his life so that contemplation is Possible.
Gabriel Marcel
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Rushing to war is not a wise course of action.
Zbigniew Brzezinski
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The wise stand out because they see themselves as part of the Whole. They shine because they don't want to impress. They achieve great things because they don't look for recognition. Their wisdom is contained in what they are, not their opinions. They refuse to argue, so no-one argues with them.
Lao Tzu
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Job-wise, I did have a moment of panic that I should have been a doctor a few years ago, but I hate when people vomit.
Kate Beckinsale
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Let me lay emphasis on the opportunity now presented in the United States for observing and, if we are wise, aiding in what I think it fair to say is the grandest opportunity ever presented of developing the finest race the world has ever known out of the vast mingling of races brought here by immigration.
Luther Burbank
