Wise Quotes

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Wise married women don't trouble themselves about infidelity in their husbands. — Samuel Johnson
Now the two primal Spirits, who reveal themselves in vision as Twins, are the Better and the Bad, in thought and word and action. Between… — Zoroaster
He is as wise as a serpent and as innocent as a dove. — Paulo Coelho
It is not wise for a man who can get seasick in a rowboat on a mill-pond to attack a Japanese dinner just after a… — John Fox, Jr.
There is no happiness where there is no wisdom; No wisdom but in submission to the gods. Big words are always punished, And proud men… — Sophocles
Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon by them: but they are the money of fools, that value them by the authority of… — Thomas Hobbes
In our reasonings concerning matter of fact, there are all imaginable degrees of assurance, from the highest certainty to the lowest species of moral evidence.… — David Hume
For the elements have the property of moving back to their place in a straight line, but they have no properties which would cause them… — Maimonides
Currently, I'm working with a company called DRL Promotions with my partners Dan Wise and Luis De Cubas. We're currently representing over 30 fighters — Roberto Duran
A wise man ought to realize that health is his most valuable possession. — Hippocrates
Yet there are times when a deeper need enters, when we want the poem to be not only pleasurably right but compellingly wise, not only… — Seamus Heaney
Jesus Christ represented God as the principle of all good, the source of all happiness, the wise and benevolent Creator and Preserver of all living… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
My message to the serious programmer is this: spend a part of your working day examining and refining your own methods. Even though programmers are… — Robert W. Floyd
The truths of the gospel do not change. If you will follow the Christ, follow his prophet, and follow his Spirit, you will always choose… — Joseph B. Wirthlin
Our wise founders seemed to understand, better than most of us, our own scripture, which states that â€˜it is the nature and disposition of almost… — Ezra Taft Benson
There are certain basic principles regarding the proper role of government. If principles are correct, then they can be applied to any specific proposal with… — Ezra Taft Benson
As my wise friend Didi has more than once observed about life's passages, every departure entails an arrival elsewhere, every arrival implies a departure from… — Claire Messud
Many have died; you also will die. The drum of death is being beaten. The world has fallen in love with a dream. Only sayings… — Kabir
If the way which I have pointed out as leading to this result (i.e., power over the emotions by which the wise man surpasses the… — Baruch Spinoza
You can have no wise laws nor free enforcement of wise laws unless there is free expression of the wisdom of the people -- and,… — William Allen White

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