Wise Quotes
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A person can be educated and still be stupid, and a wise man can have no education at all.
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When a king speaks, the armies move. But when a wise man speaks, only the beard shakes.
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To the believers it is true. To the wise it is false. To the leaders it is useful.
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The more pity, that fools may not speak wisely what wise men do foolishly.
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It is commonly, but erroneously, believed that it is easy to ask questions. A fool, it is said, can ask questions that a wise man cannot answer. The fact is that a wise man can answer many questions that a fool cannot ask.
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When I think of all the books I have read, and of the wise words I have heard spoken, and of the anxiety I have given to parents and grandparents, and of the hopes that I have had, all life weighed in the scales of my own life seems to me a preparation for something that never happens.
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Not to feel exasperated, or defeated, or despondent because your days aren't packed with wise and moral actions. But to get back up when you fail, to celebrate behaving like a human-however imperfectly-and fully embrace the pursuit that you've embarked on. (Hays translation)
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I think it is a wise course for laborers to unite to defend their interests.... I think the employer who declines to deal with organized labor and to recognize it as a proper element in the settlement of wage controversies is behind the times.... Of course, when organized labor permits itself to sympathize with violent methods or undue duress, it is not entitled to our sympathy.
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Freedom is always wise.
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I have had the opportunity to become acquainted with many wonderful people from many walks of life. I have known rich and poor, famous and modest, wise and otherwise.
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A wise person decides slowly but abides by these decisions.
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The proper study of a wise man is not how to die but how to live.
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As far as poetry, I don't know if I've ever written any. I've read a lot. I just write and it comes out in different forms and shapes. I don't know if I'm any good at it I just really go for it and I'm very prolific book wise only because I own the company. No one tells me 'no' around here.
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They're mutually incompatible I feel; being a wise thief and a wise father.
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It is the path of least resistance that makes rivers and men crooked.
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Measures of policy are necessarily controlled by circumstances; and, consequently, what may be wise and expedient under certain circumstances might be eminently unwise and impolitic under different circumstances. To persist in acting in the same way under circumstances essentially different would be folly and obstinacy, and not consistency.
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The truly wise man is he who always believes the Bible against the opinions of any man.
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The dead keep their secrets, and in a while we shall be as wise as they - and as taciturn.
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Hair-wise, the move for me is to not wash it. I try to only wash it when I have to or for a shoot or something.
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I think some of my favorite Australian films were shot by people that are not Australian. And I think when Dean Semler did 'Dances with Wolves,' for instance, that's a very different-looking Western than what you've seen much of before. It's very rich, color-wise. But we've got our own very proud thing going on.
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I don't think a wise thing at this moment is for Israel to launch a military attack on Iran.
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A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men.
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Potency does not mean being unnecessarily aggressive; one has to be wise.
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Think not ambition wise, because 't is brave.
