Wise Quotes

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In Asian languages, the word for 'mind' and the word for 'heart' are same. So if you're not hearing mindfulness in some deep way as… — Jon Kabat-Zinn
A wise man fights to win, but he is twice a fool who has no plan for possible defeat. — Louis L'Amour
I have not been that wise. Health I have taken for granted. Love I have demanded, perhaps too much and too often. As for money,… — Hedy Lamarr
A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer. — Bruce Lee
The Supreme Court has ruled that they cannot have a nativity scene in Washington, D.C. This wasn't for any religious reasons. They couldn't find three… — Jay Leno
Within our dreams and aspirations we find our opportunities. — Sugar Ray Leonard
It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and say the opposite. — Sam Levenson
The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions. — Claude Levi-Strauss
We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already. — Georg C. Lichtenberg
Never undertake anything for which you wouldn't have the courage to ask the blessings of heaven. — Georg C. Lichtenberg
I don't like that man. I must get to know him better. — Abraham Lincoln
I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
What a circus act we women perform every day of our lives. Look at us. We run a tightrope daily, balancing a pile of books… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The two big advantages I had at birth were to have been born wise and to have been born in poverty. — Sophia Loren
Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise. — Samuel Lover
Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship. — James Russell Lowell
If you young fellows were wise, the devil couldn't do anything to you, but since you aren't wise, you need us who are old. — Martin Luther
The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it. — Niccolo Machiavelli
The wise man does at once what the fool does finally. — Niccolo Machiavelli

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