Wise Quotes
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It takes a wise man to handle a lie, a fool had better remain honest.
Norman Douglas
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I think taking care of yourself, health-wise, in every way, is a 100 percent winner.
Elaine Stritch
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Wise it is to comprehend the whole.
Neil Young Buffalo Springfield
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The atomic bomb is a marvelous gift that was given to our country by a wise God.
Phyllis Schlafly
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President Eyring is a wise, learned, and spiritual man.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
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The wise are not learned, the learned are not wise.
Lao Tzu
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... The wise in all ages... have tried to learn one thing only, and that was resignation to the Will of God. By doing this, they have reached a stage at which they could see from God's point of view.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
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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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I think people discredit teenagers and how wise they can be. Sometimes I meet teenagers who are much wiser than many adults I've met, because they haven't let any insecurities or doubts about themselves get in the way of their thoughts.
Amandla Stenberg
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The man who knows when not to act is wise. To my mind bravery if forethought.
Euripides
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The wise have mastered body, word, and mind. They are the true masters.
Gautama Buddha
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The Wise Man believes profoundly in silence - the sign of a perfect equilibrium. Silence is the absolute poise or balance of body, mind and spirit. The man who preserves his selfhood ever calm and unshaken by the storms of existence - not a leaf, as it were, astire on the tree, not a ripple upon the surface of the shinning pool-his, in the mind of the unlettered sage, is the ideal attitude and conduct of life. Silence is the cornerstone of character.
Charles Alexander Eastman
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Where are the leaders?' Sapphique asked. 'In the fortresses,' the swan replied. 'And the poets?' 'Lost in dreams of other worlds.' 'And the craftsmen?' 'Forging machines to challenge the darkness.' 'And the Wise, who made the world?' The swan lowered its black neck sadly. 'Dwindled to crones and sorcerers in towers.
Catherine Fisher
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Those who understand others are clever, those who understand themselves are wise.
Lao Tzu
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Time ripens all things; no man is born wise.
Miguel de Cervantes
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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!
Thomas Carlyle
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Let them not do the slightest thing that the wise would later reprove.
Gautama Buddha
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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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Through neglect, ignorance, or inability, the new intellectual Borgias cram hairballs down our throats and refuse us the convulsion that could make us well. They have forgotten, if they ever knew, the ancient knowledge that only by being truly sick can one regain health. Even beasts know when it is good and proper to throw up. Teach me how to be sick then, in the right time and place, so that I may again walk in the fields and with the wise and smiling dogs know enough to chew sweet grass.
Ray Bradbury
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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