Wise Quotes
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A wise ignorance is an essential part of knowledge.
Plato
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Potency does not mean being unnecessarily aggressive; one has to be wise.
Asghar Ali Engineer
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O Mistress mine, where are you roaming? O, stay and hear; your true love's coming, That can sing both high and low: Trip no further, pretty sweeting; Journeys end in lovers meeting, Every wise man's son doth know. What is love? 'Tis not hereafter; Present mirth hath present laughter; What's to come is still unsure: In delay there lies not plenty; Then, come kiss me, sweet and twenty, Youth's a stuff will not endure.
William Shakespeare
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Great deeds give choice of many tales. Choose a slight tale, enrich it large, and then let wise men listen.
Pindar
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The wise expect nothing, hope for nothing, thus avoiding all disappointment and anxiety.
Alexandra David-Neel
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The wise are unaffected either by death or life. These are but faces of the same coin.
Mahatma Gandhi
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It is not sufficient merely to be a great master in painting and very wise, but I think that it is necessary for the painter to be very moral in his mode of life, or even, if such were possible, a saint, so that the Holy Spirit may inspire his intellect.
Michelangelo
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Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.
Cato the Elder
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'Tis better to be fortunate than wise.
John Webster
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I would beg the wise and learned fathers [of the church] to consider with all diligence the difference which exists between matters of mere opinion and matters of demonstration.
Galileo Galilei
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A story should, to please, at least seem true,
Be apropos, well told, concise, and new:
And whenso'er it deviates from these rules,
The wise will sleep, and leave applause to fools.
Benjamin Stillingfleet
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The wise man is satisfied with nothing.
William Godwin
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The wise win before they fight, while the ignorant fight to win.
Zhuge Liang
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A wise traveler never despises his own country.
William Hazlitt
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We've accomplished what we've wanted to accomplish, record-wise. But we're nowhere near where we should be or where we ought to be.
Rick Pitino
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Online transactions, once relegated to leaps of faith, have evolved into our status quo. We no longer ask ourselves whether or not it's wise to buy online. Instead, we ask whether or not it's wise to deal with a particular person, service provider, or business.
Leah Busque
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I don't think a wise thing at this moment is for Israel to launch a military attack on Iran.
William Hague
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And if you find her poor, Ithaca has not deceived you. Wise as you have become, with so much experience, you must already have understood what these Ithacas mean.
C.P. Cavafy
