Wise Quotes
4345 Wise quotes by 2060 unique authors
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He who is not just is severe, he who is not wise is sad.
— Voltaire
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The wisest prophets make sure of the event first.
— Horace Walpole
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It is wise to direct your anger towards problems - not people; to focus your energies on answers - not excuses.
— William Arthur Ward
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Wise are those who learn that the bottom line doesn't always have to be their top priority.
— William Arthur Ward
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Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning.
— William Arthur Ward
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We can learn much from wise words, little from wisecracks, and less from wise guys.
— William Arthur Ward
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Wise are they who have learned these truths: Trouble is temporary. Time is tonic. Tribulation is a test tube.
— William Arthur Ward
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Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the rest is in the hands of God.
— George Washington
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Ignoring fame was my rebellion, in a funny way. I was insistent on being normal and doing normal things. It probably wasn't advisable to go…
— Emma Watson
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Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
— H.G. Wells
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True love is not a strong, fiery, impetuous passion. It is, on the contrary, an element calm and deep. It looks beyond mere externals, and…
— Ellen G. White
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No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.
— Alfred North Whitehead
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Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct form ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.
— Alfred North Whitehead
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The shallow consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise man sees in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of…
— Walt Whitman
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The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.
— Oscar Wilde
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Our greatest stupidities may be very wise.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
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The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.
— William Wordsworth
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Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window.
— Steve Wozniak
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The truth is more important than the facts.
— Frank Lloyd Wright
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Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
— William Butler Yeats
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If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.
— William Butler Yeats
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It is wise for us to forget our troubles, there are always new ones to replace them.
— Brigham Young
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Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.
— Edward Young
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The wise man reads both books and life itself.
— Lin Yutang
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I did theatre in the U.S. because there, content-wise, it's very light. In India, theatre tends to get preachy.
— Vir Das
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