Wise Quotes
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Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible.
Eric Hoffer
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A woman may possess the wisdom and chastity of Minerva, and we give no heed to her, if she has a plain face. What folly will not a pair of bright eyes make pardonable? What dullness may not red lips are sweet accents render pleasant? And so, with their usual sense of justice, ladies argue that because a woman is handsome, therefore she is a fool. O ladies, ladies! there are some of you who are neither handsome nor wise.
William Makepeace Thackeray
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This conflict between right and fact has endured since the origins of society. To bring the duel to an end, to consolidate the pure ideal with the human reality, to make the right peacefully interpenetrate the fact, and the fact the right, this is the work of the wise.
Victor Hugo
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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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The way of the superior person is threefold; virtuous, they are free from anxieties; wise they are free from perplexities; and bold they are free from fear.
Confucius
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Wise travelers always stop short before they come to danger.
Lao Tzu
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A still tongue keeps a wise head.
Barbara Ann Kipfer
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I'd like to be wise. You have to go through a lot to get there, but I'm willing to go through a lot.
Nicole Kidman
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Abundance of knowledge does not teach men to be wise.
Heraclitus
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Zeal is fit for wise men, but flourishes chiefly among fools.
John Tillotson
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Therefore, do not eat meat which will cause terror among people, because it hinders the truth of emancipation; not to eat meat? this is the mark of the wise.
Gautama Buddha
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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