Wise Quotes

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There are certain fundamental requisites for wise and resolute democratic leadership. It must build on hope, not on fear; on honesty, not on falsehood; on… — Edmund Ezra Day
Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted, than when we read it in the… — Philip Gilbert Hamerton
It's easier to be original and foolish than original and wise. — Gottfried Leibniz
Children are the keys of Paradise.They alone are good and wise, Because their thoughts, their very lives are prayer. — Richard Henry Stoddard
It is demonstrable from Geology that there was a period when no organic beings had existence: these organic beings must therefore have had a beginning… — William Buckland
The truly generous is the truly wise, and he who loves not others lives unblest! — Henry Home, Lord Kames
Martyrs have been sincere. And so have tyrants. Wise men have been sincere. And so have fools. — E. Haldeman-Julius
For 10 years, I'd been working as a freelance writer and editor, making money but not a living. It was a good arrangement family-wise, allowing… — Will Allison
The ultimate in disposing one's troops is to be without ascertainable shape. Then the most penetrating spies cannot pry in nor can the wise lay… — Sun Tzu
Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own: [I hate a sage who is not… — Euripides
You don't have to learn to be wise. If you just flow you can be successful. Mother Nature will carry you. — Harbhajan Singh Yogi
Then Christ will say to us, 'Come you also! Come you drunkards! Come you weaklings! Come you depraved!' And he will say to us, 'Vile… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Finally you come to a point where you almost know it all. You are very wise. You are very pure... except for the fact that… — Ram Dass
Pilgrimage to the place of the wise is to find escape from the flame of separateness. — Rumi
In the land of "I know," there is always competitiveness, jealousy, pretence, pride and arrogance. It is an aggressive realm - the realm of the… — Mooji
Aloneness is a wise teacher. Kierkegaard remarked that one sign of spiritual maturity was the ability to be comfortable when alone. — Vernon Howard
As Benjamin Franklin said, 'Those things that hurt, instruct.' It is for this reason that wise people learn not to dread but actually to welcome… — M. Scott Peck
Many people are passionate, but because of their limiting beliefs about who they are and what they can do, they never take actions that could… — Tony Robbins
How wise must one be to be always kind. — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
O' youth do not disobey the words of the wise. Its better than fortune if the wise-one gives you advice. — Muhammad Atta-ullah Faizani

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