Wise Quotes
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There is no man ... however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived a life, the memory of which is so unpleasant to him that he would gladly expunge it. And yet he ought not entirely to regret it, because he cannot be certain that he has indeed become a wise man -- so far as it is possible for any of us to be wise -- unless he has passed through all the fatuous or unwholesome incarnations by which that ultimate stage must be preceded.
Marcel Proust
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Always choose the future over the past. What do we do now?
Brian Tracy
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The disadvantage of becoming wise is that you realize how foolish you've been.
Evan Esar
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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.
William Hazlitt
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I am honoured to join education innovators like Ms. Vicky Colbert, Dr. Madhav Chavan, and Sir Fazle Hasan Abed as the fourth WISE Prize for Education Laureate. I accept this prize on behalf of the million girls Camfed is committed to supporting through secondary education.
Ann Cotton
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Philosophers of genius, children, and the people are equally wise - because they ask equally foolish questions. Foolish to a civilized man who has a well-furnished European apartment with an excellent toilet and a well-furnished dogma.
Yevgeny Zamyatin
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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.
John Bevere
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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.
Thomas Carlyle
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President Eyring is a wise, learned, and spiritual man.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
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It is wise not to seek a secret, and honest not to reveal one.
William Penn
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The quad toms are a completely different animal than the standard drum set/trap kit. Playing wise and stylistically, they are two different beasts.
Tommy Lee Mötley Crüe
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The worst thing you can do is animate something, and then throw it out because it doesn't work, story wise.
Nicholas Stoller
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After the event, even a fool is wise.
Homer
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Sometimes when you record an album in the end, there are things here and there you regret production wise or in composition.
Stéphane Paut
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The wise have mastered body, word, and mind. They are the true masters.
Gautama Buddha
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Search men's governing principles, and consider the wise, what they shun and what they cleave to.
Marcus Aurelius
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Our target market is recreational bettors, but that doesn't mean we expel the wise guys. A big bet for us is maybe $10,000.
Calvin Ayre
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Wise it is to comprehend the whole.
Neil Young Buffalo Springfield
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I'm strong because I know my weaknesses. I'm wise because I've been foolish. I laugh because I've known sadness.
Ziad Abdelnour
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Wise to resolve, and patient to perform.
Homer
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None but God is wise.
Pythagoras
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What am I then...? Everything that I have seen, heard, and observed I have collected and exploited. My works have been nourished by countless different individuals, by innocent and wise ones, people of intelligence and dunces. Childhood, maturity and old age all have brought me their thoughts....their perspectives on life. I have often reaped what others have sowed. My work is the work of a collective being that bears the name Goethe.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Animals feed themselves; men eat; but only wise men know the art of eating
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
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Babies are thinking and attracting before they are speaking. Even though you are only months old in your physical body, you are a very old and wise Creator, focused in that baby's body.
Esther Hicks