Wise Quotes
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He is wise who knows the sources of knowledge - where it is written and where it is to be found.
Archibald Alexander Hodge
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You can't get wise with sleep still in your eyes no matter what your dream might be.
Neil Peart Rush
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Angry people are not always wise.
Jane Austen
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If we are wise, let us prepare for the worst.
George Washington
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'Tis better to be fortunate than wise.
John Webster
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Sometimes I'm under the impression some of the fights happen that they shouldn't happen because a guy's cheating. Also, I think when something like this happen they should have not only a suspension but also monetary wise enforce a penalty. Maybe take the purse of the fighter to the other fighter.
Georges St-Pierre
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A large number of deaf, crippled and blind people are afflicted solely through the malice of the demon. And one must in no wise doubt that plagues, fevers and every sort of evil come from him.
Martin Luther
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It is not wise to neglect the present for the future, for who knows what the future will be?
H. Rider Haggard
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All places that the eye of heaven visits Are to a wise man ports and happy havens. Teach thy necessity to reason thus; There is no virtue like necessity.
William Shakespeare
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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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Give a drink of water as alms to the birds which go forth at morning, and deem that they have a better right than men to thy charity. For their race brings not harm upon thee in any wise, when thou fearest it from thine own race.
Al-Maʿarri
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The Foole doth thinke he is wise, but the wiseman knowes himselfe to be a Foole.
William Shakespeare
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I had now-not for the first time, nor the thousandth-trampled upon an old and wise and stern maxim of mine, to wit: 'Supposing is good, but finding out is better.'
Mark Twain
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Whatever you do in your life, try to become a kind, and wise human being.
Nawang Khechog
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The wise traveler [to Beirut] will pack shirts or blouses with ample breast pockets. Reaching inside a jacket for your passport looks too much like going for the draw and puts armed men out of countinence
P. J. O'Rourke
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Performance-wise, you really need to be down in the trenches; you need to do the hard work, for a lot of reasons: To build yourself as a performer, to get a sense of the audience, to work hard and to wonder, 'Do I really want to do this?'
Joan Jett
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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.
Euripides
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Let us develop an agenda for children that says we can do something about teen pregnancy. Let us make sure that parents are old enough, wise enough, and financially able to take care of their children.
Janet Reno
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In any future great national trial, compared with the men of this, we shall have as weak, and as strong; as silly and as wise; asbad and good.
Abraham Lincoln
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Some folks are wise and some are otherwise.
Tobias Smollett
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I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise.
Charles de Montesquieu
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Do nothing rashly; want of circumspection is the chief cause of failure and disaster. Fortune, wise lover of the wise, selects him for her lord who ere he acts reflects.
J_K_Bharavi
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One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet; as for example... Agreeable, Bountiful, Constant, Dutiful, Easy, Faithful, Gallant, Honorable, Ingenious, Kind, Loyal, Mild, Noble, Officious, Prudent, Quiet, Rich, Secret, True, Valiant, Wise; the X indeed, is too harsh a letter to agree with him, but he is Young and Zealous.
Miguel de Cervantes
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The wise person doesn't ask, "What have I achieved?" but rather, "What have I contributed?"
Marianne Williamson