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Wise Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton
- Where does a wise man kick a pebble? On the beach. Where does a wise man hide a leaf? In the forest.
- There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.
- 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…
- I have myself a poetical enthusiasm for pigs, and the paradise of my fancy is one where pigs have wings. But it is only men,…
- A man cannot be wise enough to be a great artist without being wise enough to wish to be a philosopher.
- And my haunting instinct that somehow good was not merely a tool to be used, but a relic to be guarded, like the goods from…
- Where does a wise man hide a leaf? In the forest. But what does he do if there is no forest? He grows a forest…
- The wise old fairy tales never were so silly as to say that the prince and the princess lived peacefully ever afterwards. The fairy tales…
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- A wise person decides slowly but abides by these decisions. — Arthur Ashe
- Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. — Isaac Asimov
- Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge,… — Isaac Asimov