Wise Quotes
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Histories are as perfect as the Historian is wise, and is gifted with an eye and a soul.
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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.
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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!
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The Foole doth thinke he is wise, but the wiseman knowes himselfe to be a Foole.
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I'm not wise, but the beginning of wisdom is there; it's like relaxing into - and an acceptance of - things.
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The wise are not learned, the learned are not wise.
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Let them not do the slightest thing that the wise would later reprove.
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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.
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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.
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The wise speak only of what they know.
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It is a wise mans part, rather to avoid sickness, than to wish for medicines.
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For never, never, wicked man was wise.
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In common discourse we denominate persons and things according to the major part of their character; he is to be called a wise man who has but few follies.
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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.
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Be happy. It's one way of being wise.
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If you expect the wise man to be as angry as the baseness of crimes requires, then he must not only be angry but go insane.
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Wise it is to comprehend the whole.
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Heaven is for thee too high To know what passes there; be lowly wise. Think only what concerns thee and thy being; Dream not of other worlds, what creatures there Live, in what state, condition, or degree, Contented that thus far hath been revealed.
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Nobody's safe, humor wise.
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As the art of reading (after a certain stage in one's education) isthe art of skipping, so the art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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A dead father's counsel, a wise son heedeth.
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Where wise actions are the fruit of life, wise discourse is the pollination.
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President Eyring is a wise, learned, and spiritual man.
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Only fools think they’re wise; the rest of us just muddle through as we can.
