Wise Quotes

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Men are not conditioned to be less powerful than a woman. It will be the wise woman who realizes this and is sensitive to that… — Joyce Brothers
Those who gave thee a body, furnished it with weakness; but He who gave thee Soul, armed thee with resolution. Employ it, and thou art… — Akhenaton
The lips of the wise are as the doors of a cabinet; no sooner are they opened, but treasures are poured out before thee. — Akhenaton
That's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over, lest you should think he never could recapture the first fine careless rapture! — Robert Browning
The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored. — Jean de la Bruyere
Chinese are wise in comprehending without many words what is inevitable and inescapable and therefore only to be borne. — Pearl S. Buck
If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians. — Warren Buffett
To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men. — Edmund Burke
One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well. — Amos Bronson Alcott
Be quick to learn and wise to know. — George Burns
At Athens, wise men propose, and fools dispose. — Alcuin
Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart. — Alan Alda
It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents. — Samuel Butler
Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor. — Sholom Aleichem
A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew. — Herb Caen
To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a… — Thomas Carlyle
Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital. The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket. — Andrew Carnegie
I resolved to stop accumulating and begin the infinitely more serious and difficult task of wise distribution. — Andrew Carnegie
The monsters of our childhood do not fade away, neither are they ever wholly monstrous. But neither, in my experience, do we ever reach a… — John le Carre
The man who has sufficient power over himself to wait until his nature has recovered its even balance is the truly wise man, but such… — Giacomo Casanova
There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before. — Willa Cather
The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application. — Miguel de Cervantes
Time ripens all things; no man is born wise. — Miguel de Cervantes
O wise man! Give your wealth only to the worthy and never to others. The water of the sea received by the clouds is always… — Chanakya
Do not reveal what you have thought upon doing, but by wise council keep it secret being determined to carry it into execution. — Chanakya

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