Wise Quotes
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Acting-wise, it's always exciting to come back for a third season of any TV show that you're working on.
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By reason of gifts and bribes the offices be given to rich men, which should rather have been executed by wise men.
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I think taking care of yourself, health-wise, in every way, is a 100 percent winner.
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Why does Samuel Butler say, 'Wise men never say what they think of women'? Wise men never say anything else apparently.
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There is no one thoroughly despicable. We cannot descend much lower than an idiot; and an idiot has some advantages over a wise man.
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If the universe is so bad...how on earth did human beings ever come to attribute it to the activity of a wise and good Creator?
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If one doth act in friendly wise, With no evil thought toward any single creature, And in so doing becometh proper, And if he have compassion in his soul Toward all living beings--this noble one Doth acquire abundant Virtue.
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The wise man seeks little joys, knowing that life is long and that his quota of great joys is distinctly limited.
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Every human being has a right to hear what other wise human beings have spoken to him. It is one of the Rights of Men; a very cruel injustice if you deny it to a man!
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To please the many is to displease the wise.
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You must let what happens happen. Everything must be equal in your eyes, good and c, beautiful and ugly, foolish and wise.
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If happiness in self-content is placed, The wise are wretched, and fools only blessed.
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I remember a story of a girl in Paradise who ate an apple once. Some wise Sapient gave it to her. Because of it she saw things differently. What had seemed gold coins were dead leaves. Rich clothes were rags of cobweb. And she saw there was a wall around the world, with a locked gate.
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It is easier to find a score of men wise enough to discover the truth than to find one intrepid enough, in the face of opposition, to stand up for it.
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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.
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He is wise who knows the sources of knowledge - where it is written and where it is to be found.
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There is a limit to the work that can be got out of a human body or a human brain, and he is a wise man who wastes no energy on pursuits for which he is not fitted; and he is still wiser who, from among the things that he can do well, chooses and resolut
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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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No changing of place at a hundred miles an hour will make us one whit stronger, or happier, or wiser. There was always more in the world than man could see, walked they ever so slowly; they will see it no better for going fast. The really precious things are thought and sight, not pace. It does a bullet no good to go fast; and a man, if he be truly a man, no harm to go slow; for his glory is not at all in going, but in being.
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Those who understand others are clever, those who understand themselves are wise.
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Angry people are not always wise.
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Of all the paths a man could strike into, there is, at any given moment, a best path .. A thing which, here and now, it were of all things wisest for him to do .. To find this path, and walk in it, is the one thing needful for him.
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With everyone born human, a poet - an artist - is born, who dies young and who is survived by an adult.
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How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!
