Wise Quotes
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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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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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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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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
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A fool can throw a stone in a pond that 100 wise men can not get out.
Saul Bellow
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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
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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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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