Wise Quotes

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Listening is such a simple act. It requires us to be present, and that takes practice, but we don't have to do anything else. We… — Margaret J. Wheatley
We study history not to be clever in another time, but to be wise always. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Some folks are wise and some otherwise. — Josh Billings
The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult. — John Churton Collins
A wise man will desire no more than what he may get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contently. — Benjamin Franklin
The wise man sees in the misfortune of others what he should avoid. — Marcus Aurelius
There are four types of men in this world: 1. The man who knows, and knows that he knows; he is wise, so consult him.… — Solomon Ibn Gabirol
The mind always functions in an eccentric way, the mind is always an idiot. The really intelligent person has no mind. Intelligence arises out of… — Rajneesh
The wise man, after learning something new, is afraid to learn anything more until he has put his first lesson into practice. — Laozi
No one is wise or safe, but they that are honest. — Walter Raleigh
The wise man knows that it is better to sit on the banks of a remote mountain stream than to be emperor of the whole… — Zhuangzi
It 's guid to be merry and wise, It 's guid to be honest and true, It 's guid to support Caledonia's cause, And bide… — Robert Burns
People have sought to adjust the truth to the hour instead of adjusting the hour to the truth, and in diplomacy they have endeavoured to… — Alice Bailey
We find nothing easier than being wise, patient, superior. We drip with the oil of forbearance and sympathy, we are absurdly just, we forgive everything.… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Behind many acts that are thought ridiculous there lie wise and weighty motives. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
He is no wise man who will quit a certainty for an uncertainty. — Samuel Johnson
Sooner or later, a man if he is wise, discovers that life is a mixture of good days and bad, victory and defeat, give and… — Wilferd Peterson
It takes a wise man to handle a lie, a fool had better remain honest. — Norman Douglas
Wise is the person at either end. Who can in due measure spare as well as spend. — Lucian
A traveler of taste will notice that the wise are polite all over the world, but the fool only at home. — Oliver Goldsmith
Colors fade, temples crumble, empires fall, but wise words endure. — Edward Thorndike
Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life. — Plautus
Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks. — Heinrich Heine
The laws of man may bind him in chains or may put him to death, but they never can make him wise, virtuous, or happy. — John Quincy Adams

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