Wise Quotes

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This reminds me, Godmother, to ask you a serious question. You are as wise as wise can be (having been brought up by the fairies),… — Charles Dickens
The trouble was, if you were a chief you had to think, you had to be wise. — William Golding
Mindfulness, also called wise attention, helps us see what weâ€™re adding to our experiences, not only during meditation sessions but also elsewhere. — Sharon Salzberg
The prediction I can make with the highest confidence is that the most amazing discoveries will be the ones we are not today wise enough… — Carl Sagan
~Do you like him much? ~I told you I like him a little. Where is the use of caring for him so very much? He… — Charlotte Bronte
Nine tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time. — Theodore Roosevelt
Owls are wise. They are careful and patient. Wisdom precludes boldness. That is why owls make poor heroes. — Patrick Rothfuss
I can retain neither respect nor affection for government which has been moving from wrong to wrong in order to defend its immorality — Mahatma Gandhi
A man remains ignorant because he loves ignorance, and chooses ignorant thoughts; a man becomes wise because he loves wisdom and chooses wise thoughts. — James Allen
None can be an impartial or wise observer of human life but from the vantage ground of what we should call voluntary poverty. — Henry David Thoreau
Wisdom eludes me yet, but foolishness I captured long ago and to this day it is my constant companion, though many people consider me wise. — Kevin Hearne
The wise man who has become accustomed to necessities knows better how to share with others than how to take from them, so great a… — Epicurus
The next best thing to being wise oneself is to live in a circle of those who are. — C.S. Lewis
Or yet in wise old Ravenclaw, if you've a ready mind, Where those of wit and learning, Will always find their kind. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
While it is wise to learn from experience, it is wiser to learn from the experiences of others. — Rick Warren
How well I know what I mean to do When the long dark Autumn evenings come, And where, my soul, is thy pleasant hue? With… — Robert Browning
Don't do it, Eleanor told the little girl; insist on your cup of stars; once they have trapped you into being like everyone else you… — Shirley Jackson
It's other people who make us wise, and I haven't known nearly enough. — Mary E. Pearson
Women are already born so far ahead ability-wise. The day men can give birth, that's when we can start talking about equal rights. — Chuck Palahniuk
Making fiction for children, making books for children, isn't something you do for money. It's something you do because what children read and learn and… — Neil Gaiman

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