Wise Quotes
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It is wise to be silent when occasion requires, and better than to speak, though never so well.
Plutarch
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In one thing you have not changed, dear friend," said Aragorn: "you still speak in riddles." "What? In riddles?" said Gandalf. "No! For I was talking aloud to myself. A habit of the old: they choose the wisest person present to speak to; the long explanations needed by the young are wearying.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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The dead keep their secrets, and in a while we shall be as wise as they - and as taciturn.
Alexander Smith
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A wise woman keeps her hands firmly in her pockets and does not accidentally unzip anything, including her mouth.
Twinkle Khanna
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It’s time to stop being vague. If you wish to be an extraordinary person, if you wish to be wise, then you should explicitly identify the kind of person you aspire to become.
Epictetus
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It was not until I had graduated from college that I made a professional commitment to it. Frankly, I didn't think it wise. I was my own interior parental force, and it's very difficult to justify a profession as a dancer.
Twyla Tharp
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There is one safeguard known generally to the wise, which is an advantage and security to all, but especially to democracies as against despots - suspicion.
Demosthenes
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My mom didn't write, but she loved to read. She liked books 'that made you a little nervous.' Stephen King, Dean Koontz and Peter Straub were the three wise men of our family bookshelf.
Michael Easton
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Saints live in flames; wise men, next to them.
Emil Cioran
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I remeber asking a wise man, once . . . 'Why do Men fear the dark?' . . . 'Because darkness' he told me, 'is ignorance made visable.' 'And do Men despise ignorance?' I asked. 'No,' he said, 'they prize it above all things--all things!--but only so long as it remains invisible.
Richard Scott Bakker
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In the wise words of Mahatma Gandhi: have a sense of humor.
Drew Chadwick
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The stupid speak of the past, the wise of the present, and fools of the future.
Napoleon Bonaparte
