Wise Quotes

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Fools have a great advantage over the wise; they are always self-satisfied. — Napoleon Bonaparte
A wise man's question contains half the answer. Unfortunately the other 50% is harder to come by! — Solomon Ibn Gabirol
A teacher is really invaluable. A teacher will instruct you in how to stabilize your energy field, increase it, and decrease the loss of energy… — Frederick Lenz
The Bible is the Only Book That Can Make Us Wise unto Salvation. The Bible is not a book to be studied as we study… — George Frederick Pentecost
He who hopes to avoid all failure and misfortune is trying to live in a fairyland; the wise man realistically accepts failures as a part… — Wilferd Peterson
When we are foolish, we want to conquer the world. When we are wise, we want to conquer ourselves. That begins when we do what… — John C. Maxwell
The true teacher of love is the heart. The heart is very, very wise. It makes mistakes from time to time, but it has a… — Frederick Lenz
One day after many, many lifetimes, we get wise. We decide that the fun in life is to give. — Frederick Lenz
We are wise women, we are giggling girls. We both carry a smile to show when we're pleased, we both carry a switchblade in our… — Ani DiFranco
You look like an angel, walk like an angel, talk like an angel. But I got wise, you're the devil in disguise. — Elvis Presley
A man receives only what he is ready to receive... The phenomenon or fact that cannot in any wise be linked with the rest of… — Henry David Thoreau
We could go to monasteries. I could show you people who are very wise and they have great willpower, but they're not happy. They lack… — Frederick Lenz
It is always wise, particularly in the beginning, to balance your new intuitive and psychic understandings with good old common sense. A good psychic perception… — Frederick Lenz
[The wise skeptic does not teach doubt but how] to look for the permanent in the mutable and fleeting. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
A truly wise person will constantly move forward, striving for self-improvement, knowing that daily repentance is needed for progress. He will realize the good life… — Marvin J. Ashton
Because you have very limited time and you have to be very judicious and wise about how you spend it. But otherwise, I've always been… — Prabal Gurung
You never really know what the director has got in his mind as far as the scene visually and art direction wise. — Guy Pearce
I would employ the wise and strong of the empire, using righteousness to lead them. In this way, nothing is impossible. — Cao Cao
Intelligence alone does not get us where we need to go or even necessarily where we want to go. For that, the human creature must… — Krista Tippett
Anne Pitkin's poems have such lyrical sweep, such a sensitive eye for the natural world as it touches the human, that reading Winter Arguments is… — Rosellen Brown

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