Wise Quotes
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No man is so wise that he cannot benefit by talking things out with others.
Richard L. Evans
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What the wise seek is in themselves.
Confucius
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The wise speak only of what they know.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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It was during this as a kid time that I came out of my shell vocally and performance wise, I learned how to really and truly sing in a different way.... my way. It was an amazing experience because I also realized my lifelong dream - to sing my own songs...I have something to say and it was a great release for me to share that part of myself with others.
Tessanne Chin
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Be happy. It's one way of being wise.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
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None but God is wise.
Pythagoras
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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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Statistics is a science which ought to be honourable, the basis of many most important sciences; but it is not to be carried on by steam, this science, any more than others are; a wise head is requisite for carrying it on.
Thomas Carlyle
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Prosperity tries the souls even of the wise.
Sallust
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A dead father's counsel, a wise son heedeth.
Esaias Tegner
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Delay not till tomorrow to be wise; tomorrow's sun to thee may neve rise.
William Congreve
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No man ever became wise by chance.
Seneca the Younger
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It is a wise mans part, rather to avoid sickness, than to wish for medicines.
Thomas More
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President Eyring is a wise, learned, and spiritual man.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
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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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A person is not learned nor wise because he talks much; the person who is patient, free from hatred and fear, that person is called learned and wise.
Gautama Buddha
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Also, I learned whether you are gay, bisexual, it doesn't matter, you know... because, at the end of the day, they're both gross. But mostly, I learned that elderly black women are wise beyond their years... but younger black women are prostitutes.
Sarah Silverman
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If poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world, science fiction writers are its court jesters. We are Wise Fools who can leap, caper, utter prophecies, and scratch ourselves in public. We can play with Big Ideas because the garish motley of our pulp origins make us seem harmless.
Bruce Sterling
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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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It is wise to withhold one's heart and mind from men who think themselves superior.
Euripides
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No doubt but ye are the People - absolute, strong and wise; Whatever your hear has desired ye have not withheld from your eyes. On your own heads, in your own hands, the sin and the saving lies!
Rudyard Kipling
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Histories are as perfect as the Historian is wise, and is gifted with an eye and a soul.
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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All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, until they take root in our personal experience.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe