Wise Quotes
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Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise.
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I always see my wife as the clever one, as the wise one in the family.
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It is not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.
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From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.
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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.
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Wise are they who have learned these truths: Trouble is temporary. Time is tonic. Tribulation is a test tube.
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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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Remember that other people may be totally wrong. But they don't think so. Don't condemn them. Any fool can do that. Try to understand them. Only wise, tolerant, exceptional people even try to do that.
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No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.
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The highest point of philosophy is to be both wise and simple; this is the angelic life.
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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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Those who are held Wise among men and who search the reasons of things, are those who bring the most sorrow on themselves.
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Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.
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With regard to electric vehicles, I am all for them because most of the incremental electricity needed to run those vehicles will come from gas-fired electric generation. However, I do not believe it is wise for America to substitute dependence on foreign oil for dependence on Chinese batteries.
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What should a wise person do when given a blow? Same as Cato when he was attacked; not fire up or revenge the insult., or even return the blow, but simply ignore it.
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Hairdressers are all-knowing. They're so wise.
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I think a well-fit T-shirt and jeans can just kill, style-wise. At least, that's what I tell myself, because that's what I'm going to keep wearing till I die.
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Tis held that sorrow makes us wise.
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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 wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.
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Religion either makes men wise and virtuous, or it makes them set up false pretenses to both.
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Difficulties are just God's errands. If we are sent upon them, it is an evidence of His confidence. Therefore, let us be glad, be happy, for it is a way of being wise.
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A traveler of taste will notice that the wise are polite all over the world, but the fool only at home.
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Even so; an't please your worship, Brakenbury, You may partake of any thing we say: We speak no treason, man; we say the King Is wise and virtuous, and his noble queen Well struck in years, fair, and not jealous; We say that Shore's wife hath a pretty foot, A cherry lip, a bonny eye, a passing pleasing tongue; And that the Queen's kindred are made gentlefolks.
