Wise Quotes
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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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Let them not do the slightest thing that the wise would later reprove.
Gautama Buddha
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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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It is wise to withhold one's heart and mind from men who think themselves superior.
Euripides
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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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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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The wise fools who sit in the high places of justice fail to see that in revolutionary times vital issues are settled not by statutes, decrees and authorities, but in spite if them.
Helen Keller
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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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Delay not till tomorrow to be wise; tomorrow's sun to thee may neve rise.
William Congreve
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Nature Boy There was a boy A very strange enchanted boy They say he wandered very far, very far Over land and sea A little shy And sad of eye But very wise Was he And then one day A magic day he passed my way And while we spoke of many things, fools and kings This he said to me “The greatest thing You’ll ever learn Is just to love And be loved In return
David Bowie
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What the wise seek is in themselves.
Confucius
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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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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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The greatest thing for me football-wise is that it's a test of will.
Troy Polamalu
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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
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...he'll never lie - the man is far too wise.
Homer
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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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A great many wise sayings have been uttered about the effects of solitary retirement; but the motives which impel men to seek it are not more various than the effects which it produces on different individuals. One thing is certain, that those who can with truth affirm that they are "never less alone than when alone," might generally add that they never feel more lonely than when not alone.
Philip James Bailey
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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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The wisest men are wise to the full in death.
John Ruskin
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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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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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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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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