Wise Quotes
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It might not be wise for a sometime political journalist to admit this, but the 2016 campaign doesn't seem like fun to me.
George Packer
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Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life.
Epicurus
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You think it - wise - to trust Hagrid with something as important as this?" "I would trust Hagrid with my life," said Dumbledore.
Joanne Rowling
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Nor has his death the world deceived than his wondrous life surprised; if he like a madman lived least he like a wise one died.
Miguel de Cervantes
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Brand-wise, I love Doc Martens, Topshop, All Saints, and Lord & Taylor.
Grace Martine Tandon
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Many years ago a very wise man named Bernard Baruch took me aside and put his arm around my shoulder. "Harpo my boy," he said, "I'm going to give you three pieces of advice, three things you should always remember." My heart jumped and I glowed with expectation. I was going to hear the magic password to a rich, full life from the master himself. "Yes sir?" I said. And he told me the three things. I regret that I've forgotten what they were.
Harpo Marx
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Clever men are impressed in their differences from their fellows. Wise men are conscious of their resemblance to them.
R. H. Tawney
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Louis deliberately chose someone who hadn’t been to university because theories of animal behaviour at that time were very rigid, and Louis didn’t want someone whose mind was biased in that way. Wise man. But still I had the responsibility to prove myself. I remember looking up at the hills and wondering, 'Can I do it?'
Jane Goodall
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A couple of weeks before the 1992 Houston Open, I was probably as low as I could get confidence-wise. I didn't think I was going to go any further, and then, out of nowhere, I won that week. That kind of got me going.
Fred Funk
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Father sat down on the edge of the narrow bed. "Corrie," he began gently, "when you and I go to Amsterdam-when do I give you your ticket?" I sniffed a few times, considering this. "Why, just before we get on the train." "Exactly. And our wise Father in heaven knows when we're going to need things, too. Don't run out ahead of Him, Corrie. When the time comes that some of us will have to die, you will look into your heart and find the strength you need-just in time.
Corrie Ten Boom
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Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.
John Selden
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'Let byegones be byegones,' - they foolishly say,And bid me be wise and forget them;But old recollections are active to-day,And I can do nought but regret them.
Martin Farquhar Tupper
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Cats always seem so very wise, when staring with their half-closed eyes. Can they be thinking, I'll be nice, and maybe she will feed me twice?
Bette Midler
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For the wise have always known that no one can make much of his life until self-searching has become a regular habit, until he is able to admit and accept what he finds, and until he patiently and persistently tries to correct what is wrong.
William Griffith Wilson
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Let's face it, making movies is all risk. Most of the time, batting average-wise, the reward does not outweigh the risk.
John Slattery
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Choose a good disagreeable friend, if you be wise--a surly, steady, economical, rigid fellow.
William Makepeace Thackeray
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The United States must not adopt the tactics of the enemy. Means are important, as ends. Crisis makes it tempting to ignore the wise restraints that make men free. But each time we do so, each time the means we use are wrong, our inner strength, the strength which makes us free, is lessened.
Frank Church
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They are not wise, then, who stand forth to buffet against Love; for Love rules the gods as he will, and me.
Sophocles
