Wise Quotes
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How wise are they that are but fools in love!
Josh Cooke
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Wise it is to comprehend the whole.
Neil Young Buffalo Springfield
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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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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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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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She didn't feel thirty. But then again again, what was being thirty supposed to feel like? When she was younger, thirty seemed so far away, she thought that a woman of that age would be so wise and knowledgeable, so settled in her life with a husband and children and a career. She had none of those things. She still felt as clueless as she had felt when she was twenty, only with a few more gray hairs and crow's feet around her eyes.
Cecelia Ahern
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Prosperity tries the souls even of the wise.
Sallust
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Nature is always wise in every part.
Edward Thurlow, 1st Baron Thurlow
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Experience makes us wise.
William Hazlitt
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The wise speak only of what they know.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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Be happy. It's one way of being wise.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
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We share a lot in common, attitude wise.
Alex Riley
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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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These days people don't search for the Truth. People study simply in order to find knowledge necessary to make a living, raise families and look after themselves, that's all. To them, being smart is more important than being wise!
Ajahn Chah
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No man can be wise on an empty stomach.
George Eliot
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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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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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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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For never, never, wicked man was wise.
Homer
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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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Who can think wise or stupid things at all that were not thought already in the past.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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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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Only fools think they’re wise; the rest of us just muddle through as we can.
Charles de Lint
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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