Wise Quotes

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Here and there in the ancient literature we encounter legends of wise and mysterious games that were conceived and played by scholars, monks, or the… — Hermann Hesse
Note that venerable proverb: Children and fools always speak the truth. The deduction is plain: adults and wise persons never speak it. — Mark Twain
What this misguided world and generation needs is a massive group of courageous and caring, wise and unwearying women. — Elaine A. Cannon
There's always time. . .to own up to things you're ashamed of, to change them. There's always time to start. And I think the starting… — Unknown Author
Unfortunately, I was not wise enough to listen to her advice, and hastily married. In a few weeks, I had occasion to repent of the… — Maria Monk
No one is wise at all times. — Pliny the Elder
I could be content that we might procreate like trees, without conjunction, or that we were any way to perpetuate the world without this trivial… — Thomas Browne
Some read for style, and some for argument: one has little care about the sentiment, he observes only how it is expressed; another regards not… — Samuel Johnson
So, with their usual sense of justice, ladies argue that because a woman is handsome, therefore she is a fool. O ladies, ladies! there are… — William Makepeace Thackeray
I once read that people who study others are wise but those who study themselves are enlightened. — Robin Sharma
If you don't know, ask. You will be a fool for the moment, but a wise man for the rest of your life. — Seneca the Younger
That distrust which intrudes so often on your mind is a mode of melancholy, which, if it be the business of a wise man to… — Samuel Johnson
The wise man draws more advantage from his enemies than the fool from his friends — Benjamin Franklin
No man ever became wise by chance. — Seneca the Younger
No accidents are so unlucky [bad] but that the wise may draw some advantage [good] from them... — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Nothing raises the price of a blessing like its removal; whereas, it was its continuance which should have taught us its value. [It is wise… — Henry Moore
A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin or when he sees silver he looks for the cloud… — H. L. Mencken
Follow me, the wise man said, but he walked behind. — Leonard Cohen
Probe the universe in a myriad of points. ... He is a wise man who has taken many views; to whom stones and plants and… — Henry David Thoreau
Fools live in fear, a wise man lives in strength. — Harbhajan Singh Yogi
They're all so highly educated, you know. Education is a great shield against experience. It offers so much, ready-made and all from the best shops,… — Robertson Davies
The child who dwells inside us trusts that there are wise men somewhere who know the truth. — Czeslaw Milosz
I would not say that old men grow wise, for men never grow wise; and many old men retain a very attractive childishness and cheerful… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Far best is he who is himself all-wise, and he, too, good who listens to wise words; But whoso is not wise or lays to… — Hesiod
That's a wise substitution by Terry Venables: three fresh man, three fresh legs. — Jimmy Hill

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