Wise Quotes
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Those who are truly wise will remain unmoved by feelings of happiness and suffering, fame and disgrace, praise and blame, gain and loss.They will remain calm like the eye of a hurricane.
Gautama Buddha
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Usually my characters, though young, tend to be street-wise.
Rachel Cohn
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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.
T. B. Joshua
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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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Titles are marks of honest men, and wise;The fool or knave that wears a title lies.
Edward Young
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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.
Pericles
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Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
Quintilian
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Make the wise man within you your living ideal.
Karl G. Maeser
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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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Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.
Benjamin Franklin
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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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Rushing to war is not a wise course of action.
Zbigniew Brzezinski
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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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The wise man knows how to run his life so that contemplation is Possible.
Gabriel Marcel
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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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It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to.
Fannie Hurst
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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...
Luther Burbank
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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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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.
Said Nursi
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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.
Aristotle
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Bombino's a super modest guy, very nice. His whole crew is a bunch of characters and he's definitely the Grand Poobah. I don't think the other guys are that much younger than him, but he definitely feels like the wise man; you just sort of get that sense when you're around him. He doesn't say that much but he's humble and well-respected.
Dan Auerbach The Black Keys
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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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Luck never made a man wise.
Seneca the Younger
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I'd like to be very wise.
Duffy