Wise Quotes

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Not to discuss with a man worthy of conversation is to waste the man. To discuss with a man not worthy of conversation is to… — Confucius
Oh, this beast? It's...perspicacious loris. 'Perspicacious' meaning 'wise or canny'." "Get stuffed," Bovril said, then giggled. "And it insults people," Telsa said. "How peculiar. — Scott Westerfeld
Behold! I am weary of my wisdom, like the bee that has gathered too much honey; I need hands outstretched to take it from me.… — Friedrich Nietzsche
You bring the color and the life. It's a lucky man who is offered that color and life, and a wise one who values it. — Nora Roberts
Good things aren't supposed to just fall into your lap. God is very generous, but He expects you to do your part first. — Audrey Hepburn
We all want to be loved, don't we? Everyone looks for a way of finding love. It's a constant search for affection in every walk… — Audrey Hepburn
It would be most right, and most wise, and, therefore must involve least suffering. — Jane Austen
Still anyone who trusts a serpent deserves its bite. The wise see a creature for what it is, not what it says it may be. — Alice Hoffman
The stories we love best do live in us forever. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
We are served by organic ghosts, he thought, who, speaking and writing, pass through this our new environment. Watching, wise, physical ghosts from the full-life… — Philip K. Dick
Matthey, a Geneva physician very close to Rousseau's influence, formulates the prospect for all men of reason: 'Do not glory in your state, if you… — Michel Foucault
The best fights are the ones you don't have", a wise man once said to me. — Lee Child
I have always found that Angels have the vanity to speak of themselves as the only wise. — Aldous Huxley
I know only one thing. when i sleep, i know no fear, no, trouble no bliss. blessing on him who invented sleep. the common coin… — Andrei Tarkovsky
I was a bit of a Victorian Lady, fainting-wise. — John Green
If the infinite had not desired man to be wise, he would not have bestowed upon him the faculty of knowing. — Manly Hall
Thou art as wise as thou art beautiful — William Shakespeare
The thing that impressed me then as now about New York… was the sharp, and at the same time immense, contrast it showed between the… — Theodore Dreiser
Writers are such phonies: they sometimes have wise insights but they don't live by them at all. That's what writers are like...you think they know… — Anne Sexton
Father sat down on the edge of the narrow bed. "Corrie," he began gently, "when you and I go to Amsterdam-when do I give you… — Corrie Ten Boom
How do people choose their final words? Do they realize their gravity? Are they fated to be wise? — Mitch Albom
Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal… — J.R.R. Tolkien
They say philosophers and wise men are indifferent. Wrong. Indifference is a paralysis of the soul, a premature death. — Anton Chekhov
Where we are from... [s]tories are factual. If a farmer is declared a music virtuoso by the state, everyone had better start calling him maestro.… — Adam Johnson
You think it - wise - to trust Hagrid with something as important as this?" "I would trust Hagrid with my life," said Dumbledore. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling

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