Wise Quotes

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The miracle is this: the more we share the more we have. — Leonard Nimoy
The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day… — Alden Nowlan
I clearly understood the concept of wise use before I ever heard the actual words, for my father wouldn't allow us to waste anything. — Ted Nugent
If it doesn't sell, it isn't creative. — David Ogilvy
A wise woman recognizes when her life is out of balance and summons the courage to act to correct it, she knows the meaning of… — Suze Orman
Look wise, say nothing, and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought. — William Osler
Sotomayor's vainglorious lecture bromide about herself as 'a wise Latina' trumping white men is a vulgar embarrassment - a vestige of the bad old days… — Camille Paglia
Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it… — Blaise Pascal
Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life. — Linus Pauling
Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about… — Norman Vincent Peale
In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body; then thou hast a wife, a… — William Penn
It takes a long time to become young. — Pablo Picasso
I never think of myself as wise. I think of myself as possessing a critical intelligence which I intend to allow to operate. — Harold Pinter
I'm 48 now and whatever I get music-wise, I get from my kids and that's it. I don't think I'll ever be hip again! — Brad Pitt
To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the… — Plutarch
We loved with a love that was more than love. — Edgar Allan Poe
I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active… — Edgar Allan Poe
Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing. — Alexander Pope
In a full heart there is room for everything, and in an empty heart there is room for nothing. — Antonio Porchia
Get mad, then get over it. — Colin Powell
The fact is that not only do people get more wise and more conservative as they get older, they get more kind and more generous,… — Dennis Prager
There is no man, however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived in a way the consciousness of… — Marcel Proust
No mortal man, moreover is wise at all moments. — Pliny the Elder
Be wisely worldly, but not worldly wise. — Francis Quarles
How do you know antiquity was foolish? How do you know the present is wise? Who made it foolish? Who made it wise? — Francois Rabelais

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