Wise Quotes

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If this nation is to be wise as well as strong, if we are to achieve our destiny, then we need more new ideas for… — John F. Kennedy
Again I take a taxi to Clichy address, but feel that I do not want to go on loving Henry more actively than he loves… — Anais Nin
Silence becomes cowardice when occasion demands speaking out the whole truth and acting accordingly. — Mahatma Gandhi
Do not try to seem wise to others. — Epictetus
Juno MacGuff: Wise move. I know this girl who had a huge crazy freakout because she took too many behavioral meds at once. She took… — Diablo Cody
Love is the strongest force the world possesses and yet it is the humblest imaginable. — Mahatma Gandhi
Whoever can't see the whole in every part plays at blind man's bluff. A wise man tastes the entire Tigris in every sip. — Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib
The Calormens have dark faces and long beards. They wear flowing robes and orange-colored turbans, and they are a wise, wealthy, courteous, cruel and ancient… — C.S. Lewis
A woman may possess the wisdom and chastity of Minerva, and we give no heed to her, if she has a plain face. What folly… — William Makepeace Thackeray
I believe when I am in the mood that all nature is full of people whom we cannot see, and that some of these are… — William Butler Yeats
Our wise old church...has discovered that if you will act as if you believed belief will be given to you; if you pray with doubt,… — W. Somerset Maugham
Most everything that you want is just outside your comfort zone. — Jack Canfield
It was a real whale, a photograph of a real whale. I looked into its tiny wise eye and wondered where that eye was now.… — Miranda July
A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe, and leaves before she is left. — Marilyn Monroe
If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't.… — Lewis Carroll
She hoped to be wise and reasonable in time; but alas! Alas! She must confess to herself that she was not wise yet. — Jane Austen
To the philosophers of India, however, Relativity is no new discovery, just as the concept of light years is no matter for astonishment to people… — Alan Watts
The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise. — Maya Angelou
The busy man is never wise and the wise man is never busy. — Lin Yutang
He was old and wise, which meant tired and disappointed... — T.E. Lawrence

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