Wise Quotes
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I'd like to be very wise.
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It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to.
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Happiness itself is sufficient excuse. Beautiful things are right and true; so beautiful actions are those pleasing to the gods. Wise men have an inward sense of what is beautiful, and the highest wisdom is to trust this intuition and be guided by it. The answer to the last appeal of what is right lies within a man's own breast. Trust thyself.
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All who have taken it upon themselves to rule over others have incurred hatred and unpopularity for a time; but if one has a great aim to pursue, this burden of envy must be accepted, and it is wise to accept it.
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I write for children because I am interested in fantasy and the possibilities for experience of all kinds before the time of compromise. I believe that children are far more perceptive and wise than American books give them credit for being.
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Luck never made a man wise.
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Usually my characters, though young, tend to be street-wise.
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When it comes to power, God Himself is the power. God often uses foolish things to confound the wise. That is why people like me will ever be grateful to God. In terms of knowledge, education and name, I am nowhere - a neglected stone.
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Rushing to war is not a wise course of action.
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A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.
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Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.
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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.
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Titles are marks of honest men, and wise;The fool or knave that wears a title lies.
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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.
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Make the wise man within you your living ideal.
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I don't know what I'm qualified to do, film-wise... So it's really down to a director or a casting director to find something that they think I could do.
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And what has been hidden from the wise and the prudent been revealed in the mouth of the toddlers.
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My idea is always to reach my generation. The wise writer writes for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmasters of ever afterward.
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Be wise with speed;A fool at forty is a fool indeed.
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The philosopher must teach these pupils French students that it is far less essential to understand nature than to enjoy and respect its laws; that these laws are both wise and simple; that they are written in all human hearts, and that one need merely question a heart in order to appreciate its impulses.
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The wise become as the unwise in the enchanted chambers of Power, whose lamps make every face the same colour.
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When the wise plant developer goes into his garden or orchard... his eyes turn always first and foremost to the leaves...
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The All-Wise Maker attaches hundreds of instances of wisdom to each of the beings in the palace of the universe and equips them to perform hundreds of duties. To all trees He bestows instances of wisdom to the number of its fruits and gives duties to the number of its flowers.
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We now occupy the proud attitude of a sovereign and independent Republic, which will impose upon us the obligation of evincing to the world that we are worthy to be free. This will only be accomplished by wise legislation, the maintenance of our integrity, and the faithful and just redemption of our plighted faith wherever it has been pledged.
