Wise Quotes

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Our wise old church...has discovered that if you will act as if you believed belief will be given to you; if you pray with doubt,… — W. Somerset Maugham
Most everything that you want is just outside your comfort zone. — Jack Canfield
It was a real whale, a photograph of a real whale. I looked into its tiny wise eye and wondered where that eye was now.… — Miranda July
A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe, and leaves before she is left. — Marilyn Monroe
If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't.… — Lewis Carroll
She hoped to be wise and reasonable in time; but alas! Alas! She must confess to herself that she was not wise yet. — Jane Austen
To the philosophers of India, however, Relativity is no new discovery, just as the concept of light years is no matter for astonishment to people… — Alan Watts
The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise. — Maya Angelou
The busy man is never wise and the wise man is never busy. — Lin Yutang
He was old and wise, which meant tired and disappointed... — T.E. Lawrence
Wise? No, I simply learned to think. — Christopher Paolini
Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose. — Viktor E. Frankl
I object to being told that I am saving daylight when my reason tells me that I am doing nothing of the kind... At the… — Robertson Davies
I believe that water is the only drink for a wise man. — Henry David Thoreau
No man can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowledge. The teacher who walks in… — Khalil Gibran
When Vanity kissed Vanity, a hundred happy Junes ago, he pondered o'er her breathlessly, and, that all men might ever know, he rhymed her eyes… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, until… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
[Wise men] have tried to understand our state of being, by grasping at its stars, or its arts, or its economics. But, if there is… — Charles Fort
It is not only species of animal that die out, but whole species of feeling. And if you are wise you will never pity the… — John Fowles
It is not wise to find symbols in everything that one sees. It makes life too full of terrors. — Oscar Wilde
Let us be poised, and wise, and our own, today. Let us treat men and women well; treat them as if they were real; perhaps… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The wise man tests before he talks. The critic but follows the fad of a cynical and apathetic age. — L. Ron Hubbard
I am sure of this, that by going much alone a man will get more of a noble courage in thought and word than from… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do not fear the thorns in your path, for they draw only corrupt blood. — Khalil Gibran

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