Wise Quotes

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In the old legend the wise men finally boiled down the history of mortal affairs into a single phrase: 'This too will pass.' — Benjamin Graham
If we turn to the divine Conductor and follow the wise and loving baton that is His will, His Word, then the music of our… — Peter Kreeft
Music-wise, I listen to everything. Leonard Cohen, Randy Newman - I guess I like a lot of '70s music. — Bret McKenzie
Only you know your circumstances, your energy level, the needs of your children, and the emotional demands of your other obligations. Be wise during intensive… — Chieko N. Okazaki
People can do all kinds of things that maybe aren't wise in hindsight because of jealousy. — Kristin Bauer van Straten
Wise words are like seeds. The more you scatter them, the more they will grow into infinite gardens of knowledge. — Suzy Kassem
Grudges are like hand grenades: it is wise to release them before they destroy you. — Barbara Johnson
If man could write his own fate, he would have designed his journey to be without obstacles. Yet all obstacles come with valuable lessons designed… — Suzy Kassem
If human life is in fact ordered by a beneficent being whose knowledge of our real needs and of the way in which they can… — C.S. Lewis
Let us prepare for that blessed day when He will come again. Let us be as wise as those ancients who watched for His coming. — Dieter F. Uchtdorf
Curse away! And let me tell thee, Beausant, a wise proverb The Arabs have,-"Curses are like young chickens, And still come home to roost." — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
...They are wise to the ways of Wall Street - and...getting their fair share of the loot.(:)...from who will be the head of NIH, to… — Edgar Berman
We do not need an atomic bomb. The Iranian nation is wise. It won't build two atomic bombs while you have 20,000 warheads. — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
O Lord Most-wise, strengthen us by Your power that we not fear the non-believing world neither when they lash us with whips nor when they… — Nikolaj Velimirovic
Our Heavenly Father is far too wise and loves us far too much to give us everything we ask for. — Mark Batterson
Our forefathers found the evils of free thinking more to be endured than the evils of inquest or suppression. This is because thoughtful, bold and… — Robert H. Jackson
ANTI-ZIONISTS, last of all, exhibit a distaste for certain words. It was Thomas Hobbes who, anticipating semantics, pointed out that words are counters, not coins;… — Milton Steinberg
Do you know this Sanskrit Shloka: "Let those who are versed in the ethical codes praise or blame, let Lakshmi, the goddess of Fortune, come… — Swami Vivekananda
We shall have to work like lions, keeping the ideal before us, without caring whether "the wise ones praise or blame us". — Swami Vivekananda
Write on your doors the saying wise and old. "Be bold!" and everywhere - "Be bold; Be not too bold!" Yet better the excess Than… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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