Wise Quotes

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My duration's infinite, money-wise or physiology. — Nas
It is only when the people become ignorant and corrupt, when they degenerate into a populace, that they are incapable of exercising the sovereignty. Usurpation… — James Monroe
My heart was filled with gratitude, with thankfulness, and went out in love to all the heroes, the thinkers who gave their lives for the… — Robert Green Ingersoll
Seek your own Reality, That is what a wise man should do. — Sathya Sai Baba
The more humble and obedient to God a man is, the more wise and at peace he will be in all that he does. — Thomas a Kempis
The wise man knows how to run his life so that contemplation is possible. — Gabriel Marcel
We want a state wise in its contemplation - just in its actions - and moderate in the reach of government into our lives. — Sonny Perdue
Wise men say, and not without reason, that whosoever wished to foresee the future might consult the past. — Niccolo Machiavelli
Life is accumulative - Either our errors accumulate to what we don't get, or our wise decisions accumulate into what we do get. — Jim Rohn
Even the wisest men make fools of themselves about women, and even the most foolish women are wise about men — Theodor Reik
[We need] someone bold, to put himself at the head of the disaffected and rally them against the oppressor. Some great character who could captivate… — Jean-Paul Marat
When a people, having become free, establish wise laws, their revolution is complete... Peace and prosperity, public virtue, victory, everything is in the vigor of… — Louis Antoine de Saint-Just
All things and all people in life have to sink or swim on their own merits, not their reputation; that just as a wise man… — Vincent Bugliosi
The wise man will not pardon any crime that ought to be punished, but he will accomplish, in a nobler way, all that is sought… — Seneca the Younger
To the wise man, to the wise nation, the mistakes of the past are the torches of the present. — Robert Green Ingersoll
Politics, like theater, is one of those things where you've got to be wise enough to know when to leave. — Richard Lamm
The wise become as the unwise in the enchanted chambers of Power, whose lamps make every face the same colour. — Walter Savage Landor
You know that just before that first Thanksgiving dinner there was one wise, old Native American woman saying, Don't feed them. If you feed them,… — Dylan Brody
I need not print a line, nor conjure with the painter's tools to prove myself an artist ... Whilst in other spheres of labor the… — J. D. Sedding
It seems then, say I, that you leave politics entirely out of the question, and never suppose, that a wise magistrate can justly be jealous… — David Hume

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