Wise Quotes

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In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body; then thou hast a wife, a… — William Penn
It takes a long time to become young. — Pablo Picasso
I never think of myself as wise. I think of myself as possessing a critical intelligence which I intend to allow to operate. — Harold Pinter
I'm 48 now and whatever I get music-wise, I get from my kids and that's it. I don't think I'll ever be hip again! — Brad Pitt
To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the… — Plutarch
We loved with a love that was more than love. — Edgar Allan Poe
I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active… — Edgar Allan Poe
Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing. — Alexander Pope
In a full heart there is room for everything, and in an empty heart there is room for nothing. — Antonio Porchia
Get mad, then get over it. — Colin Powell
The fact is that not only do people get more wise and more conservative as they get older, they get more kind and more generous,… — Dennis Prager
There is no man, however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived in a way the consciousness of… — Marcel Proust
No mortal man, moreover is wise at all moments. — Pliny the Elder
Be wisely worldly, but not worldly wise. — Francis Quarles
How do you know antiquity was foolish? How do you know the present is wise? Who made it foolish? Who made it wise? — Francois Rabelais
A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion. — Grantland Rice
Don't follow any advice, no matter how good, until you feel as deeply in your spirit as you think in your mind that the counsel… — Joan Rivers
If I'm a commodity, it wouldn't be a wise idea to buy stock in me - although, in the long run, maybe I'm a slow… — Tim Robbins
A silent man is easily reputed wise. A man who suffers none to see him in the common jostle and undress of life, easily gathers… — Frederick William Robertson
It's the height of folly to want to be the only wise one. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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