Wise Quotes
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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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I was born wise. Street-wise, people-wise, self-wise. This wisdom was my birthright.
Sofia Villani Scicolone
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Seeing God hath thus set us at liberty, what rashness it is for worms of the earth to make new laws; as though God had not been wise enough.
John Calvin
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Yet there are times when a deeper need enters, when we want the poem to be not only pleasurably right but compellingly wise, not only a surprising variation played upon the world, but a re-tuning of the world itself.
Seamus Heaney
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Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away.
Arthur Helps
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In his face there came to be a brooding peace that is seen most often in the faces of the very sorrowful or the very wise. But still he wandered through the streets of the town, always silent and alone.
Carson McCullers
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I did learn a great deal about my husband but I also learned something about myself: I made a wise choice. I think he's a good man.
Cindy McCain
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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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No man can be wise on an empty stomach.
George Eliot
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Look upon him who shows you your faults as a revealer of treasure: seek his company who checks and chides you, the sage who is wise in reproof: it fares well and not ill with him who seeks such company.
Gautama Buddha
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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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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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The beasts are very wise, Their mouths are clean of lies, They talk one to the other, Bullock to bullock brothers Resting after their labors, Each in stall with his neighbors, But man with goad and whip, Breaks up their fellowship, Shouts in their silky ears Filling their soul with fears. When he has plowed the land, He says: "they understand." But the beasts in stall together, Freed from the yoke and tether, Say as the torn flank smoke: "Nay, 'twas the whip that spoke."
Rudyard Kipling
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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
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Keep studying the scriptures, keep doing the things that build your faith in Jesus Christ and then notice the wise choices you are naturally drawn to make
Russell M. Nelson
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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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Ten thousand fools, knaves, cowards, lump'd together, Become all-wise, all-righteous, and all-mighty.
Edward Joseph Young
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Well isn’t that one thing you’re all the more wise for? Age has taught you something. It seems to me that you know the big secret. That nobody knows what’s going on
Cecelia Ahern
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Be beautiful if you can, wise if you want to, but be respected - that is essential.
Anna Gould
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To acknowledge you were wrong yesterday is simply to let the world know that you are wiser today than you were then.
Jonathan Swift
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Silence is the adornment of the wise, and for the foolish the only dignity possible.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
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The foolish sayings of the rich pass for wise saws in society.
Miguel de Cervantes
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If I'm a commodity, it wouldn't be a wise idea to buy stock in me - although, in the long run, maybe I'm a slow growth investment.
Tim Robbins