Wise Quotes

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There is nothing by which men display their character so much as in what they consider ridiculous... Fools and sensible men are equally innocuous. It… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Was it a friend or foe that spread these lies; Nay, who but infants question in such wise, twas one of my most intimate enemies. — Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Make each day truly new, dressing it with the blessings of heaven, bathing it in wisdom and love and putting yourself under the protection of… — Paulo Coelho
Go where he will, the wise man is at home, His hearth the earth, his hall the azure dome. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Before beginning a Hunt, it is wise to ask someone what you are looking for before you begin looking for it. — A A Milne
Those who understand others are clever, those who understand themselves are wise. — Laozi
It can't possibly last for years and browsing has its limits. Only a certain amount is healthy or wise. — Judith Krantz
I can only express the hope that faith in the judicial system will never be diminished, and I am sure it will not, so long… — Lee Kuan Yew
Every Christian leader should have this engraved in his subconscious. No matter what you do, never take yourself too seriously God always chooses the foolish… — K.P. Yohannan
The ancient sages never put their teachings in a systematic form. They spoke in paradoxes, for they were afraid of uttering half-truths. They began by… — Okakura Kakuzo
These days people don't search for the Truth. People study simply in order to find knowledge necessary to make a living, raise families and look… — Ajahn Chah
No age is wanting in able men; it is the duty of wise masters to find them out, win them over, and get work done… — Aurangzeb
God cannot be referred to as 'good,' 'better,' or 'best' because He is above all things. If a man says that God is wise, the… — Andrew Davidson
There is a direct line that runs from our doctrine to our actions, from what is in our minds to what is in our words… — Tom Wells
We think a wise person is someone who solves problems. Truth is, a wise person is someone who avoids problems. — Prem Rawat
Peron had a wise saying. In politics, you can recover from anything except looking like a fool. — Alma Guillermoprieto
During the 2008 election, I made clear to the Obama campaign that I don't think it's wise for me to force my personal political agenda… — Questlove
God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself. — Pierre Charron
You must be true to yourself. Strong enough to be true to yourself. Brave enough to be strong enough to be true to yourself. Wise… — Sylvia Ashton-Warner
Laughter, while it lasts, slackens and unbraces the mind, weakens the faculties and causes a kind of remissness and dissolution in all the powers of… — Malcolm De Chazal
The American people may not be the best-educated, but they're very wise at heart. — Norman Lear
Machiavel, discoursing on these matters, finds virtue to be so essentially necessary to the establishment and preservation of liberty, that he thinks it impossible for… — Algernon Sidney
Readers of novels are a strange folk, upon whose probable or even possible tastes no wise book-maker would ever venture to bet. — E. V. Lucas
A fool will study for twenty or thirty years and learn how to do something, but a wise man will study for twenty or thirty… — Barry Hughart
Fortunately, the time has long passed when people liked to regard the United States as some kind of melting pot, taking men and women from… — Hubert H. Humphrey

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