Wise Quotes
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It comes back to the old question: How can the Bible be so wise in some places and so barbaric in others? And why should we put any faith in a book that includes such brutality?
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Often God will send us what we need in a package we don't want. Why? To let us know He's God and we cannot second-guess Him. We cannot search for answers merely with our heads; we must seek Him and His provision with our hearts. Scripture cannot be interpreted from our limited human mental understanding. There must be a breath of the Spirit of God. He alone gives wise counsel and correct application.
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How do you know antiquity was foolish? How do you know the present is wise? Who made it foolish? Who made it wise?
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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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No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no one can be perfectly happy till all are happy.
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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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Golf being a cold, calculating sort of game gives perhaps more scope for folly than any other. We have all the time in the world to make up our minds as to what is the wise thing to do and then we do the foolish one.
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It is in the half fools and the half wise that the greatest danger lies.
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To please the many is to displease the wise.
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Abundance of knowledge does not teach men to be wise.
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We are born with only one face, but laughing or crying, wisely or unwisely, eventually we form our own.
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Get wise, youse guys!
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I'm incapable of truly relaxing. I remember when I was younger and less wise or experienced, actors that I knew would always talk about jobs ending and wondering whether they were ever going to work again. Now that's my life.
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Most of the things I do brand wise are both missionary and mercenary in their position, and that's really important to me; that's one of the first things I look at when I say, 'does it make sense to do a deal?'
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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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What the wise seek is in themselves.
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I think, writing-wise, I am probably more of a quilter than a weaver because I just get a little scrap here and a little scrap there and sew them together.
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A wise man sees failure as progress. A fool divorces his knowledge and misses the logic, And loses his soul in the process.
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The wise man must be wise before, not after, the event.
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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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Every aspect of your personality, if you're wise, you're able to separate each one of them and put them to use at the best time for the best position.
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Be happy. It's one way of being wise.
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So in this case, Kalamas, don't go by reports, by legends, by traditions, by scripture, by logical conjecture, by inference, by analogies, by agreement through pondering views, by probability, or by the thought, 'This contemplative is our teacher.' When you know for yourselves that, 'These qualities are unskillful; these qualities are blameworthy; these qualities are criticized by the wise; these qualities, when adopted & carried out, lead to harm & to suffering' - then you should abandon them.
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Delay not till tomorrow to be wise; tomorrow's sun to thee may neve rise.
