Wise Quotes

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The good want power, but to weep barren tears. The powerful goodness want: worse need for them. The wise want love; and those who love… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
God has bestowed upon you intelligence and knowledge. Do not extinguish the lamp of Divine Grace and do not let the candle of wisdom die… — Khalil Gibran
The person who has a firm trust in the Supreme Being is powerful in his power, wise by his wisdom, happy by his happiness. — Joseph Addison
And now I send these pages forth, not knowing what shall befall them, but with the earnest prayer that they may be blessed to aid… — Frederic Farrar
Where does the ego get its energy? The ego feeds off your desire to be something else. You are poor and you want to be… — Rajneesh
O be wise, what can I say more? — Jacob
When I was a small boy, my father told me never to recommend a church or a woman to anyone. And I have found it… — Edmund G. Love
The facts of nature cannot in the long run be violated. Penetrating and seeping through everything like water, they will undermine any system that fails… — Carl Jung
The very term ['mental disease'] is nonsensical, a semantic mistake. The two words cannot go together except metaphorically; you can no more have a mental… — E. Fuller Torrey
A fool is wise in his own eyes. — Solomon
Youth is a beautiful dream, on whose brightness books shed a blinding dust. Will ever the day come when the wise link the joy of… — Khalil Gibran
Excellence of mind itself, rightly conceived, is expertise in beauty; creativity is wise love. — Robert Grudin
When love could teach a monarch to be wise, And gospel-light first dawn'd from Bullen's eyes. — Thomas Gray
Who is so wise as to have a perfect knowledge of all things? Therefore trust not too much to thine own opinion, but be ready… — Thomas a Kempis
Even a god finds it hard to love and be wise at the same time. -Amare et sapere vix deo conceditur — Publilius Syrus
Commandments are loving counsel from a wise Father. Our understanding and concept of God as a loving and personal Heavenly Father allows us no other… — Paul H. Dunn
License they mean when they cry Liberty; For who loves that, must first be wise and good. — John Milton
It is goodness that gives to a neighborhood its beauty. One who is free to choose, yet does not prefer to dwell among the good… — Confucius
When I was a child, I spoke like a child. When I was an adult, I no longer spoke like a child. When I became… — Robert Muller
Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new impositions; any bungler can add to the old; but is it altogether wise to have… — Edmund Burke

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