Wise Quotes

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Fools make feasts and wise men eat them. — Benjamin Franklin
I like libraries. It makes me feel comfortable and secure to have walls of words, beautiful and wise, all around me. I always feel better… — Roger Zelazny
And my haunting instinct that somehow good was not merely a tool to be used, but a relic to be guarded, like the goods from… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
It's a wise person, I guess, who knows he's dumb, and an honest person who knows he's a liar. And it's a dumb person, I… — Joseph Heller
When every hope is gone, 'when helpers fail and comforts flee,' I find that help arrives somehow, from I know not where. Supplication, worship, prayer… — Mahatma Gandhi
The seeker after truth should be humbler than the dust. The world crushes the dust under its feet, but the seeker after truth should so… — Mahatma Gandhi
That is the hardest thing of all. It is much harder to judge yourself than to judge others. If you succeed in judging yourself, it's… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Through neglect, ignorance, or inability, the new intellectual Borgias cram hairballs down our throats and refuse us the convulsion that could make us well. They… — Ray Bradbury
You don't know who is important to you until you actually lose them. — Mahatma Gandhi
Though wise men at their end know dark is right, Because their words had forked no lightning they Do not go gentle into that good… — Dylan Thomas
For I am Saruman the Wise, Saruman Ring-maker, Saruman of Many Colours!' I looked then and saw that his robes, which had seemed white, were… — J.R.R. Tolkien
The wound is the place where the Light enters you. — Unknown Author
I know what I have given you... I do not know what you have received. — Antonio Porchia
I heard a wise saying once that has helped me: "Negative feelings are like stray cats. The more you feed them, the more they hang… — Joyce Rupp
Only if you are afraid of looking foolish, and I would have looked far more foolish if I persisted with an erroneous belief.' Eragon said.… — Christopher Paolini
The simplest acts of kindness are by far more powerful then a thousand heads bowing in prayer. — Mahatma Gandhi
If you tell me I'm sensible in addition to normal and wise, I'm going to punch you in the stomach. — Nora Roberts
The wise are not wise because they make no mistakes. They are wise because they correct their mistakes as soon as they recognize them. — Orson Scott Card
You are an educated man. You know there are no such things as demons." Bast smiled a terrible smile. "There is only my kind." Bast… — Patrick Rothfuss
Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments. — Isaac Asimov

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