Wise Quotes
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Wisdom is not mathematical, nor astronomical, nor zoological; when it talks too much of any one thing it ceases to be itself. There are wise physicists, but wisdom is not physical; there are wise physicians, but wisdom is not medical.
George Sarton
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Zeal is fit for wise men, but flourishes chiefly among fools.
John Tillotson
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Let them not do the slightest thing that the wise would later reprove.
Gautama Buddha
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The wise man comes to God without saying a word and stands in awe of Him.
Francis Chan
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Only fools think they’re wise; the rest of us just muddle through as we can.
Charles de Lint
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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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The wise speak only of what they know.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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Everyone breathes in air, but it's a wise person who knows when to use that air to speak and when to exhale in silence.
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
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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.
Tina Turner Ike & Tina Turner
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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
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A woman may possess the wisdom and chastity of Minerva, and we give no heed to her, if she has a plain face. What folly will not a pair of bright eyes make pardonable? What dullness may not red lips are sweet accents render pleasant? And so, with their usual sense of justice, ladies argue that because a woman is handsome, therefore she is a fool. O ladies, ladies! there are some of you who are neither handsome nor wise.
William Makepeace Thackeray
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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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For never, never, wicked man was wise.
Homer
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The greatest thing for me football-wise is that it's a test of will.
Troy Polamalu
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We share a lot in common, attitude wise.
Alex Riley
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This of course is the way to talk to dragons, if you don't want to reveal your proper name which is wise, and don't want to infuriate them by a flat refusal which is also very wise. No dragon can resist the fascination of riddling talk and of wasting time to trying to understand it.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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Never try to sell at the top. It isn't wise. Sell after a reaction if there is no rally.
Jesse Livermore
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Nature is always wise in every part.
Edward Thurlow, 1st Baron Thurlow
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Prosperity tries the souls even of the wise.
Sallust
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Wise are those who learn that the bottom line doesn't always have to be their top priority.
William Arthur Ward
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What the wise seek is in themselves.
Confucius
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The two big advantages I had at birth were to have been born wise and to have been born in poverty.
Sofia Villani Scicolone
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Be happy. It's one way of being wise.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
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Make a decision. It doesn't have to be a wise decision or a perfect one. Just make one.
Seth Godin