Wise Quotes

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A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times. — Lord Acton
There is a way to look at the past. Don't hide from it. It will not catch you if you don't repeat it. — Pearl Bailey
Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others. — Edward Abbey
You live and learn. At any rate, you live. — Douglas Adams
What could be more beautiful than a dear old lady growing wise with age? Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it. — Brigitte Bardot
Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men? — Natalie Clifford Barney
Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought. — Matsuo Basho
If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius. — Joseph Addison
Job-wise, I did have a moment of panic that I should have been a doctor a few years ago, but I hate when people vomit. — Kate Beckinsale
When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the… — Alexander Graham Bell
The past is our definition. We may strive with good reason to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it. But we will… — Wendell Berry
Quick condemnation of all that is not ours, of views with which we disagree, of ideas that do not attract us, is the sign of… — Annie Besant
Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding. — Ambrose Bierce
Cabbage: a familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head. — Ambrose Bierce
The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way. — Josh Billings
There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply. — Josh Billings
It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish. — Aeschylus
It is best for the wise man not to seem wise. — Aeschylus
Search well and be wise, nor believe that self-willed pride will ever be better than good counsel. — Aeschylus
A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees. — William Blake

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