Wise Quotes
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Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance.
Isaac Asimov
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If he didn't have the calf situation, he would have practiced, ... He played extremely well. . . . The game was very physical and he got some hits. Quarterback-wise, the odds that we can go through the year like that and keep the guy healthy. . . . I hope we can keep him healthy.
Joe Gibbs
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If women dabble in rap but they're not rappers, to get from dabbling to doing it is really difficult, confidence-wise.
Nora Lum
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The feeble tremble before opinion, the foolish defy it, the wise judge it, the skillful direct it.
Madame Roland
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I loved football. I'm so glad I played. But I didn't think it was wise for me to play longer.
Chris Borland
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The Apocrypha... ought to be bound up with all your Bibles; it contains much that is beautiful and wise, and there is in history nothing finer than the description of Eleazar's end.
John Tyndall
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Chess masters don't evaluate all the possible moves. They know how to discard 98 percent of the ones they could make and then focus on the best choice of the remaining lot. That's the way expertise works in other fields, too: Wise practitioners recognize familiar patterns and put their creativity, improvisation, and skill toward the marginal cases.
John Dickerson
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He is one of those wise philanthropists who in a time of famine would vote for nothing but a supply of toothpicks.
Douglas William Jerrold
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A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.
Samuel Johnson
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I forget who it was that recommended men for their soul’s good to do each day two things they disliked: it was a wise man, and it is a precept that I have followed scrupulously; for every day I have got up and I have gone to bed.
W. Somerset Maugham
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The title wise is, for the most part, falsely applied. How can one be a wise man, if he does not know any better how to live than other men? - if he is only more cunning and intellectually subtle?
Henry David Thoreau
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I feel good. Health-wise, I'm probably in better shape than I was a bunch of years before. Being a diabetic, I watch everything I eat. I feel great physically.
Joe Gibbs
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A wise skepticism is the first attribute of a good critic.
James Russell Lowell
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Numerous are the academic professors, but rare are wise and noble teachers.
Albert Einstein
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It's so funny that people specify that year because in a way it was the biggest battle for me health wise.
Brady Anderson
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I believe the classified section of a newspaper - especially the 'Business Opportunities' column - can tell you more about your city 'business-wise' than any other publication.
E. Joseph Cossman
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It messes me up sometimes when I go on stage and people say my name wrong. Say my name wrong with all these different syllables. I've heard everything. My name is easy as 1-2-3. Jer-eh-mih, syllable-wise.
Jeremih Felton
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For Texas, a wise and prudent administration in the commencement of her national existence will be universally expected, imposing upon me the difficult and delicate task of setting in complete and successful operation a political body based upon principles so hazardously asserted and so gloriously maintained.
Sam Houston
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No man is wise enough by himself.
Plautus
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I think in a play it's wise to just sit back and watch other actors and be able to shape it from the audience.
Zach Braff
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No man is wise or safe, but he that is honest.
Walter Raleigh
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A wise parent humors the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and advisor when his absolute rule shall cease.
Elizabeth Gaskell
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The Feminine force of life is often too wise for the Masculine's need to know: The mysterious energy of the evolving cosmos is always superior to our temporary scientific notions about it. . .
David Deida
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To be wise means to be a teacher, means to be a soul winner. That's our business - That's our only business!
J. Frank Norris