Wise Quotes

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O, to bring back the great Homeric time, The simple manners and the deed sublime: When the wise Wanderer, often foiled by Fate, Through the… — Mortimer Collins
The truth is perilous never to the true, Nor knowledge to the wise; and to the fool, And to the false, error and truth alike,… — Philip James Bailey
Let me live in my house by the side of the road, Where the race of men go by; They are good, they are bad;… — Sam Walter Foss
The man who is completely wise and virtuous has no need of glory, except so far as it disposes and eases his way to action… — Plutarch
Ah, yet, e'er I descend to th' grave, May I a small House and a large Garden have. And a few Friends, and many Books… — Abraham Cowley
One day you will wake up and there wonÂ’t be any more time to do the things youÂ’ve always wanted. Do it now. The simple… — Paulo Coelho
Though the desire of fame be the last weakness Wise men put off. — Philip Massinger
There is no mortal truly wise and restless at once; wisdom is the repose of minds. — Johann Kaspar Lavater
It is harder to avoid censure than to gain applause; for this may be done by one great or wise action in an age. But… — David Hume
It is important to live each day with a positive perspective. It is not wise to pretend problems do not exist, but it is wise… — Dale E. Turner
Wise men are more dependent on fools than fools on wise men. — Cato the Younger
True consistency, that of the prudent and the wise, is to act in conformity with circumstances, and not to act always the same way under… — John C. Calhoun
The man who broods over the past can never master the difficulties of today. Every wise man learn to forget. — Herbert Newton Casson
My father was extremely loving to me and funny and wise and understanding, and at other times extremely demanding, critical, calculating, exacting. When you're a… — Anjelica Huston
The wise who control their body, who control their tongue, the wise who control their mind, are indeed well controlled. — Max Muller
He in whom all this is destroyed, and taken out with the very root, he, when freed from hatred and wise, is called respectable. — Max Muller
A wise politician will never grudge a genuflexion or a rapture if it is expected of him by prevalent opinion. — Frederick Scott Oliver
If you use disappointments as sort of mid- semester exams, for learning, you will learn that every disappointment you overcome makes you stronger- and wiser.… — Loretta Young
When you realize that your history books and your science books and your literature books are not the result of experts sitting down and making… — Diane Ravitch
A wise man should not divulge the formula of a medicine which he has well prepared; an act of charity which he has performed; domestic… — Chanakya

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