Wise Quotes
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No man is wise enough by himself.
Plautus
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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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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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A wise lover values not so much the gift of the lover as the love of the giver.
Thomas à Kempis
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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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For me, shoe-wise, platforms give me the same height that I need, but they're not as taxing on my feet.
Debby Ryan
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I stick with what I know, makeup-wise.
Aerin Lauder
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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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And our wise Father in heaven knows when we're going to need things too. Don't run out ahead of Him.
Corrie Ten Boom
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Even a fool knows you can't touch the stars, but it won't keep the wise from trying.
Harry Anderson
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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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Infrastructure is one of the core responsibilities of government and one that cannot be shortchanged by other controversial spending. I believe investment in infrastructure pays dividends for decades and is a wise investment of taxpayer dollars.
Douglas R. Oberhelman
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The wise man does not grow old, but ripens.
Victor Hugo
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Working on my knowledge and education and learning how to become a more talented and wise person make me feel more sexy.
Natassia Malthe
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I would really like to do a movie. Schedule-wise I don't know when exactly, but I think it would be great to do a Portlandia movie. Some of my favorite television shows have done it and they've been great. Like Monty Python. I think it would be great.
Fred Armisen
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Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment the treasurer, of a wise man.
William Penn
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Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.
Francis Bacon
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Rocking on a lazy billow With roaming eyes, Cushioned on a dreamy pillow, Thou art now wise. Wake the power within thee slumbering, Trim the plot that's in thy keeping, Thou wilt bless the task when reaping Sweet labour's prize.
John Stuart Blackie
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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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Changi for me - of course it's easy to be wise after the event, and to discuss it cleverly after the event - was about as near as you can get to being dead and still be alive.
James Clavell
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The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.
Walter Savage Landor
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I don't see anything wrong with being alone, it feels great to me. People make a big thing about personal love. It doesn't have to be such a big thing. The same for living - people make a big thing about that too. But personal living and personal loving are the two things the Eastern-type wise men don't think about.
Andy Warhol
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Since all of us desire to be happy, and since we evidently become so on account of our use — that is our good use — of other things, and since knowledge is what provides this goodness of use and also good fortune, every man must, as seems plausible, prepare himself by every means for this: to be as wise as possible. Right?
Socrates
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The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forbearing.
Epictetus