Wise Quotes

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Nothing raises the price of a blessing like its removal; whereas, it was its continuance which should have taught us its value. [It is wise… — Henry Moore
A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin or when he sees silver he looks for the cloud… — H. L. Mencken
Follow me, the wise man said, but he walked behind. — Leonard Cohen
Probe the universe in a myriad of points. ... He is a wise man who has taken many views; to whom stones and plants and… — Henry David Thoreau
Fools live in fear, a wise man lives in strength. — Harbhajan Singh Yogi
They're all so highly educated, you know. Education is a great shield against experience. It offers so much, ready-made and all from the best shops,… — Robertson Davies
The child who dwells inside us trusts that there are wise men somewhere who know the truth. — Czeslaw Milosz
I would not say that old men grow wise, for men never grow wise; and many old men retain a very attractive childishness and cheerful… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Far best is he who is himself all-wise, and he, too, good who listens to wise words; But whoso is not wise or lays to… — Hesiod
That's a wise substitution by Terry Venables: three fresh man, three fresh legs. — Jimmy Hill
The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence. — Herodotus
Politics is like navigation in a sea without charts, and wise men live the lives of pilgrims. — Joyce Cary
The Wise County Bookmobile is one of the most beautiful sights in the world to me. When I see it lumbering down the mountain road… — Adriana Trigiani
A wise and clear-eyed book, Future Hype challenges the conventional wisdom about technological change and provides a fresh perspective on our so-called computer age. — Nicholas G. Carr
Nothing is concealed from the wise and sensible, while the unbelieving and unworthy cannot learn the secrets. — Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa
A wise man distrusts his neighbor. A wiser man distrusts both his neighbor and himself. The wisest man of all distrusts his government. — Taylor Caldwell
For the wise men of old, the cardinal problem of human life was how to conform the soul to objective reality, and the solution was… — Peter Kreeft
Should we grieve over a little misplaced charity, when an all knowing, all wise Being showers down every day his benefits on the unthankful and… — Francis Atterbury
We are not wise enough, pure enough, or strong enough to aim and sustain such a single motive over a lifetime. That way lies fanaticism… — Os Guinness
What audiences end up with word-wise is a hackneyed, completely derivative copy of old Hollywood romances, a movie that reeks of phoniness and lacks even… — Kenneth Turan

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