Wise Quotes
4345 Wise quotes by 2060 unique authors
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To be angry about trifles is mean and childish; to rage and be furious is brutish; and to maintain perpetual wrath is akin to the…
— Isaac Watts
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. . . indeed what reason may not go to Schoole to the wisdome of Bees, Ants, and Spiders? what wise hand teacheth them to…
— Thomas Browne
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Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness to someone else.
— Hermann Hesse
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For the wise have always known that no one can make much of his life until self-searching has become a regular habit, until he is…
— Bill W.
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The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practised, is to study and learn how…
— Pierre Charron
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For if the mystery concealed of old is made manifest to the Apostles through the prophetic writings, and if the prophets, being wise men, understood…
— Origen
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Seeing God hath thus set us at liberty, what rashness it is for worms of the earth to make new laws; as though God had…
— John Calvin
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It’s time to stop being vague. If you wish to be an extraordinary person, if you wish to be wise, then you should explicitly identify…
— Epictetus
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We must believe that He is able to do what He will, wise to do what is best, and good, according to His promise, to…
— Matthew Henry
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A very wise author once said that a writer writes for himself, and then publishes for money. I write for myself and publish just for…
— Guillermo Cabrera Infante
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The atomic bomb is a marvelous gift that was given to our country by a wise God.
— Phyllis Schlafly
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God has spoken to man, and the Bible is his Word, given to us to make us wise unto salvation... Godliness means responding to God's…
— J I Packer
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Be wise; soar not too high to fall; but stoop to rise.
— Philip Massinger
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A fool sees himself as another, but a wise man sees others as himself.
— Dogen
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Prefer to be defeated in the presence of the wise than to excel among fools.
— Dogen
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Acknowledging foolishness is a very powerful and important experience. We could almost say that being willing to be a fool is one of the first…
— Chogyam Trungpa
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Love is wise – Hatred is foolish.
— Bertrand Russell
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The wise and good are outnumbered a thousand to one by the brutal and stupid.
— Douglas Preston
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Clever men are impressed in their differences from their fellows. Wise men are conscious of their resemblance to them.
— R. H. Tawney
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There can be no wise politics without thought beforehand.
— Annie Besant
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Every wise workman takes his tools away from the work from time to time that they may be ground and sharpened; so does the only-wise…
— Robert Murray M'Cheyne
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I will be glad to discuss this proposition with my attorney, and that after I talk with one, we could either discuss it with him…
— Lee Harvey Oswald
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Scratch the surface in a typical boardroom and we're all just cavemen with briefcases, hungry for a wise person to tell us stories.
— Alan Kay
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I’ve always said that a wise businessperson will support the ANC… because supporting the ANC means you’re investing very well in your business
— Jacob Zuma
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Search men's governing principles, and consider the wise, what they shun and what they cleave to.
— Marcus Aurelius
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