Wise Quotes
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How wise are they that are but fools in love!
Josh Cooke -
Education does not necessarily make one wise?
Benjamin Carson
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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.
William Faulkner -
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.
Caroline Myss -
A fool can throw a stone in a pond that 100 wise men can not get out.
Saul Bellow -
In all I wish, how happy should I be, Thou grand Deluder, were it not for thee? So weak thou art that fools thy power despise; And yet so strong, thou triumph'st o'er the wise.
Jonathan Swift -
...he'll never lie - the man is far too wise.
Homer -
Nature is always wise in every part.
Edward Thurlow, 1st Baron Thurlow
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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 -
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 -
Persona-wise, I represent a lot of people's childhoods.
Ralph Macchio -
Each one of us regardless of our situation, is in our search of our most authentic, vital, generous and wise self.
Elizabeth Lesser -
Ten thousand fools, knaves, cowards, lump'd together, Become all-wise, all-righteous, and all-mighty.
Edward Joseph Young -
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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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 -
A word to the wise is -- unnecessary.
Evan Esar -
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 -
To acknowledge you were wrong yesterday is simply to let the world know that you are wiser today than you were then.
Jonathan Swift -
Living is one constant and perpetual instant when the arras-veil before what-is-to-be hangs docile and even glad to the lightest naked thrust if we had dared, were brave enough (not wise enough: no wisdom needed here) to make the rending gash.
William Faulkner -
The wisest men are wise to the full in death.
John Ruskin
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We all have that inner voice that is wise, even if we don't always follow it. It's that voice I'm trying to listen to.
Ray LaMontagne -
But if you do not find an intelligent companion, a wise and well-behaved person going the same way as yourself, then go on your way alone, like a king abandoning a conquered kingdom, or like a great elephant in the deep forest.
Gautama Buddha -
Nobody's safe, humor wise.
Morena Baccarin -
The disadvantage of becoming wise is that you realize how foolish you've been.
Evan Esar