Wise Quotes

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Don't cry when the sun is gone, because the tears won't let you see the stars. — Violeta Parra
When a love comes to an end, weaklings cry, efficient ones instantly find another love, and the wise already have one in reserve. — Oscar Wilde
And I shall find some girl perhaps, and a better one than you, With eyes as wise, but kindlier, and lips as soft, but true,… — Rupert Brooke
For the wise man looks into space and he knows there is no limited dimensions. — Laozi
Fools rush in where wise men fear to trade. — Laurence J. Peter
The magi, as you know, were wise men wonderfully wise men who brought gifts to the Babe in the manger. They invented the art of… — O. Henry
Common sense dictates that we evaluate our beliefs on the basis of how they affect us. If they make us more loving, creative, and wise,… — Barbara Marx Hubbard
Learning makes the wise wiser and the fool more foolish. — John Ray
Books fall open, you fall in, delighted where you've never been; hear voices not once heard before, reach world on world through door on door;… — David McCord
Cultivate the habit of attention and try to gain opportunities to hear wise men and women talk. Indifference and inattention are the two most dangerous… — Robert Andrews Millikan
Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise. — Cato the Elder
The wise learn from the experience of others, and the creative know how to make a crumb of experience go a long way. — Eric Hoffer
Better to hunt in fields, for health unbought, Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught, The wise, for cure, on exercise depend; God never… — John Dryden
A man who is wrathful with us is a sick man; we must apply a plaster to his heart - love; we must treat him… — John of Kronstadt
God forgives not capriciously, but with wise, definite, Divine pre arrangement; forgives universally, on the grounds of atonement and on the condition of repentance and… — Richard Salter Storrs
A democrat need not believe that the majority will always reach a wise decision. He should however believe in the necessity of accepting the decision… — Bertrand Russell
Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect… — Winston Churchill
Be wise, because the world needs more wisdom. And if you cannot be wise, pretend to be someone who is wise, and then just behave… — Neil Gaiman
All knowledge is interesting to a wise man, and the knowledge of nature is interesting to all men. — Matthew Arnold
Better to be happy than wise. — John Heywood

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