Wise Quotes

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Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
We look for the Secret - the Philosopher's Stone, the Elixir of the Wise, Supreme Enlightenment, 'God' or whatever...and all the time it is carrying… — Robert Anton Wilson
I write almost always in the third person, and I don't think the narrator is male or female anyway. They're both, and young and old,… — Philip Pullman
A wise man can play the part of a clown, but a clown can't play the part of a wise man. — Malcolm X
Indeed, I am very sorry to be right in this instance. I would much rather have been merry than wise. — Jane Austen
Many wise words are spoken in jest, but they don't compare with the number of stupid words spoken in earnest. — Sam Levenson
I have tried to be a man of letters in love with ideas in order to be a wiser and more loving person, hoping to… — Cornel West
A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it. — Albert Einstein
Thou shouldst not have been old till thou hadst been wise. — William Shakespeare
We do know that no one gets wise enough to really understand the heart of another, though it is the task of our life to… — Louise Erdrich
It is indeed difficult to imagine how men who have entirely renounced the habit of managing their own affairs could be successful in choosing those… — Alexis de Tocqueville
He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men that is genius. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own. — Michel de Montaigne
Thereâ€™s nothing as significant as a human face. Nor as eloquent. We can never really know another person, except by our first glance at him.… — Ayn Rand
There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure. — Paulo Coelho
I am so wise I had my mouth sewn shut. — John Berryman
When a child first catches adults out -- when it first walks into his grave little head that adults do not always have divine intelligence,… — John Steinbeck
Angry people are not always wise. — Jane Austen
He who is certain he knows the ending of things when he is only beginning them is either extremely wise or extremely foolish; no matter… — Tad Williams

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