Wise Quotes
4345 quotes by 2161 authors
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When you listen and read one thinker, you become a clone… two thinkers, you become confused… ten thinkers, you’ll begin developing your own voice… two…
— Timothy Keller
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All I have is all I need and all I need is all I have in this moment.
— Byron Katie
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Halt," said the elegant diplomat, "when you asked me to marry you, did you think we could just sneak off to a glade in the…
— John Flanagan
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Dolgan: ’Tis a wise thing to know what is wanted, and wiser still to know when ‘tis achieved. Rhuagh: True. And still wiser to know…
— Raymond E. Feist
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Many's the man/ who thought himself wise/ but what he needed/ he did not know...
— Richard Wagner
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Death is the only wise advisor that we have. Whenever you feel, as you always do, that everything is going wrong and you're about to…
— Carlos Castaneda
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You are incredibly wise. (Kat) Only when it comes to other people. It’s easy to see how to fix their lives. It’s much harder to…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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Even if we could grow our way out of the crisis and delay the inevitable and painful reconciliation of virtual and real wealth, there is…
— Herman E. Daly
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A queen is wise. She has earned her serenity, not having had it bestowed on her but having passer her tests. She has suffered and…
— Marianne Williamson
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Wise men say nothing in dangerous times
— Aesop
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You know, it’s amazing to me the wounds we carry for eternity. But what has fascinated me most these last few years is how the…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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This world is your best teacher. There is a lesson in everything. There is a lesson in each experience. Learn it and become wise. Every…
— Sivananda
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Seek not greater wealth, but simpler pleasure; not higher fortune, but deeper felicity.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Randalf the Wise indeed!I've worn wiser pairs of underpants!
— Paul Stewart
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You are keeping the possibility [of peace] open. No wise leader would do anything less
— Patrick Ness
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It's not about changing--it's about growing, together," he said, like the wise soul that he was. "I wanted to let you know--that I am with…
— Ellen Schreiber
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After a pause, he asked, 'What do you think of Nasuada's plans?' 'Mmm...she's doomed! You're doomed! They're all doomed!'She cackled, doubling over, then straightened abruptly.…
— Christopher Paolini
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In examinations the foolish ask questions that the wise cannot answer.
— Oscar Wilde
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I would much rather have been merry than wise.
— Jane Austen
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may I be I is the only prayer--not may I be great or good or beautiful or wise or strong.
— E E Cummings
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