Wise Quotes
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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 whole point of marriage is to encourage your partner's development and have them encourage yours.
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Let them not do the slightest thing that the wise would later reprove.
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We are not meant to stay wounded. We are supposed to move through our tragedies and challenges and to help each other move through the many painful episodes of our lives. By remaining stuck in the power of our wounds, we block our own transformation. We overlook the greater gifts inherent in our wounds - the strength to overcome them and the lessons that we are meant to receive through them. Wounds are the means through which we enter the hearts of other people. They are meant to teach us to become compassionate and wise.
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Time can but make it easier to be wise / Though now it seems impossible, and so / All that you need is patience.
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A dead father's counsel, a wise son heedeth.
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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.
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Each one of us regardless of our situation, is in our search of our most authentic, vital, generous and wise self.
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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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Be beautiful if you can, wise if you want to, but be respected - that is essential.
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Speak not at all, in any wise, till you have somewhat to speak; care not for the reward of your speaking, but simply and with undivided mind for the truth of your speaking.
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For never, never, wicked man was wise.
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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.
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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.
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We were wise indeed, could we discern truly the signs of our own time; and by knowledge of its wants and advantages, wisely adjust our own position in it. Let us, instead of gazing idly into the obscure distance, look calmly around us, for a little, on the perplexed scene where we stand. Perhaps, on a more serious inspection, something of its perplexity will disappear, some of its distinctive characters and deeper tendencies more clearly reveal themselves; whereby our own relations to it, our own true aims and endeavors in it, may also become clearer.
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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!
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I was born wise. Street-wise, people-wise, self-wise. This wisdom was my birthright.
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Ten thousand fools, knaves, cowards, lump'd together, Become all-wise, all-righteous, and all-mighty.
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No man can be wise on an empty stomach.
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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
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Wise are those who learn that the bottom line doesn't always have to be their top priority.
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You can't beat women anyhow and that if you are wise or dislike trouble and uproar you don't even try to.
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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.
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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.
