Wise Quotes

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We need to keep a constant watch over our mind and learn to distinguish between the beneficial and harmful thoughts that are arising moment by… — Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
To have regret is to be disappointed with yourself and your choices. Those who are wise, see their life like stepping stones across a great… — Colleen Houck
You will rarely make wise decisions if you surround yourself with fools — Rasheed Ogunlaru
It is a wise mans part, rather to avoid sickness, than to wish for medicines. — Thomas More
Is there really someone who, searching for a group of wise and sensitive persons to regulate him for his own good, would choose that group… — Robert Nozick
When proven wrong, the wise man will correct himself and the ignorant will keep arguing. — Ali ibn Abi Talib
There's little comfort in the wise — Rupert Brooke
As the Christmas season envelops us with all its glory, may we, as did the Wise Men, seek a bright, particular star to guide us… — Thomas S. Monson
Sometimes in our lives we all have pain. We all have sorrow. But if we are wise we know that there's always tomorrow. — Bill Withers
Since you have to do the things you have to do, be wise enough to do some of the things you want to do. — Malcolm Forbes
Logic is a large drawer, containing some useful instruments, and many more that are superfluous. A wise man will look into it for two purposes,… — Charles Caleb Colton
I think when we don't know what to do it's wise to do nothing. Sit down quietly; quiet our hearts and minds and breathe deeply. — Maya Angelou
A wise person is full of questions. A dull person is full of answers. — Paulo Coelho
We are all, in the private kingdom of our hearts, desperate for the company of a wise, true friend. Someone who isnâ€™t embarrassed by our… — Steve Almond
Within us is the soul of the whole, the wise silence, the universal beauty, the eternal One. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
While we are sitting in meditation, we are simply exploring humanity and all of creation in the form of ourselves. We can become the world's… — Pema Chodron
It is chilling to think that the same people who persecuted the wise women and men of Europe, its midwives and healers, then crossed the… — Alice Walker
Fools learn nothing from wise men, but wise men learn much from fools. — Johann Kaspar Lavater
No man was more foolish when he had not a pen in his hand, or more wise when he had — Samuel Johnson
God is too good to be unkind, too wise to be mistaken; and when you cannot trace His hand, you can trust His heart. — Charles Spurgeon

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