Wise Quotes
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A wise man once said, 'never discuss philosophy or politics in a disco environment.'
Frank Zappa
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Controversy equalizes fools and wise men in the same way - and the fools know it.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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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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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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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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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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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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No man is wise or safe, but he that is honest.
Walter Raleigh
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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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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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Ignoring fame was my rebellion, in a funny way. I was insistent on being normal and doing normal things. It probably wasn't advisable to go to college in America and room with a complete stranger. And it probably wasn't wise to share a bathroom with eight other people in a coed dorm. Looking back, that was crazy.
Emma Watson
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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
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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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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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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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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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I have to convince other Democrats and Republicans that it's wise to invest in the U.S.-Mexico border, not just for security, but also for mobility and trade, and that's why we should open up the border.
Beto O'Rourke
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Wise men make more opportunities than they find.
Francis Bacon
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Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
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'm really close to my family, and we talk through things. My parents are so amazing, they're brilliant. We try to take one step at a time and be wise about the decisions we make and keep our values and the things that are important.
Naomi Scott
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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