Wise Quotes

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If you'd like to have a better incarnation, then have one now. If that's your attitude, just let go and meditate and try to be… — Frederick Lenz
If you sat down and you wrote a script, you may write something that's way beyond what you've ever seen me do, but if you… — Morgan Freeman
It's a very wise thing for people to rationally sit down and look at what the risks are not only on a daily basis, on… — Benjamin Carson
There are men steady and wise whose body, words and mind are self-controlled. They are the men of supreme self-control. — Publilius Syrus
For one word a man is often deemed to be wise, and for one word he is often deemed to be foolish. We should be… — Confucius
Fools usually know best that which the wise despair of ever comprehending. — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
The wise man is seldom prudent. — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
A man cannot be wise enough to be a great artist without being wise enough to wish to be a philosopher. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
There is no accident so unfortunate but wise men will make some advantage of it, nor any so entirely fortunate but fools may turn it… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
It is in the half fools and the half wise that the greatest danger lies. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Divide and command, a wise maxim; Unite and guide, a better. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The wise have a solid sense of silence and the ability to keep a storehouse of secrets. Their capacity and character are respected. — Baltasar Gracian
Be merry if you are wise. — Martial
Wise travelers always stop short before they come to danger. — Laozi
A wise man is out of the reach of fortune. — Thomas Browne
For if he like a madman lived; At least he like a wise one died. — Miguel de Cervantes
The foolish sayings of the rich pass for wise saws in society. — Miguel de Cervantes
All extremes does perfect reason flee, And wishes to be wise quite soberly. — Moliere
The wound of peace is surety, Surety secure; but modest doubt is called The beacon of the wise, the tent that searches To th' bottom… — William Shakespeare
Grant that I may become beautiful in my soul within, and that all my external possessions may be in harmony with my inner self. May… — Plato

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