Wise Quotes

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A prudent person profits from personal experience, a wise one from the experience of others. — Joseph Collins
The wine urges me on, the bewitching wine, which sets even a wise man to singing and to laughing gently and rouses him up to… — Homer
True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest… — Seneca the Younger
It may be said that artist and censor differ in this wise: that the first is a decent mind in an indecent body and that… — George Jean Nathan
The world is blessed most by men who do things, and not by those who merely talk about them. -James Oliver 'Tomorrow I will live,'… — Martial
If you have to be reasoned into Christianity, some wise fellow can reason you out of it! If you come to Christ by a flash… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
This is of monumental significance. The gift has been given - what we make of it is up to us. Unless we listen to counsel… — F. Burton Howard
The poor long for riches, the rich long for heaven, but the wise long for a state of tranquility. — Rama Swami
Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard — Will Durant
If we are wise, we never leave school. — Horace Fletcher
If there have been those who doubted whether a confederated representative democracy were a government competent to the wise and orderly management of the common… — John Quincy Adams
Silver gray hair Neatly combed in place There were four generations Of love on her face She was so wise No surprise passed her eyes… — Dianne Reeves
There is an old saying, or should be, that it is a wise economist who recognizes the scope of his own generalizations. — John Kenneth Galbraith
I learned from my illiterate but wise mother that all rights to be deserved and preserved came from duty well done. Thus the very right… — Mahatma Gandhi
An ounce of emotion is equal to a ton of facts. — John Junor
Don't see others doing better than you, beat your own records everyday, because success is a fight between you and yourself. — Chandra Shekhar Azad
The wise man is he who constantly wonders afresh. — Andre Gide
Cato used to assert that wise men profited more by fools than fools by wise men; for that wise men avoided the faults of fools,… — Plutarch
Who are a little wise the best fools be. — John Donne
Art thou in misery, brother? Then I pray Be comforted. Thy grief shall pass away. Art thou elated? Ah, be not too gay; Temper thy… — Paul Hamilton Hayne

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