Wise Quotes
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The wise man carries his possessions within him.
Bias
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The wise understand by themselves; fools follow the reports of others
Tibetan Proverb
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The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.
Thomas S. Szasz
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Life is a pilgrimage. The wise man does not rest by the roadside inns. He marches direct to the illimitable domain of eternal bliss, his ultimate destination.
Swami Sivananda
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It is a right and duty of the wise ones to purify the strong by teaching them their duties and to strengthen the weak by teaching them their rights.
Subrahmanya C. Bharati
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Be happy. It`s one way of being wise.
Sidonie Gabrielle
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If a wise man behaves prudently, how can he be overcome by his enemies? Even a single man, by right action, can overcome a host of foes.
Saskya Pandita
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Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise.
Samuel Lover
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To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.
Buddha
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The wise man avoids evil by anticipating it.
Publilius Syrus
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Listen to advice and accept correction, then in the end you will be wise.
Proverb
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Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.
Plato
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The punishment which the wise suffer, who refuse to take part in government, is to live under the government of worse men
Plato
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A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.
Moliere
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He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself at twenty.
Mary Wilson Little
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Love works in miracles every day: such as weakening the strong, and strengthening the weak; making fools of the wise, and wise men of fools; favouring the passions, destroying reason, and in a word, turning everything topsy-turvy.
Marguerite De Valois
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Love works in miracles every day: such as weakening the strong, and strengthening the weak; making fools of the wise, and wise men of fools; favouring the passions, destroying reason, and in a word, turning everything topsy-turvy.
Marguerite De Valois
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He who is humble is confident and wise. He who brags is insecure and lacking.
Lisa Edmondson
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He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.
Lao Tzu
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Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished from the public councils, because they dare to be honest, and the profligate are rewarded, because they flatter the people in order...
Joseph Story
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If this nation is to be wise as well as strong, if we are to achieve our destiny, then we need more new ideas for more wise men reading more good books in more public libraries. These libraries should be open to all—except the censor. We must know all t...
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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If this nation is to be wise as well as strong, if we are to achieve our destiny, then we need more new ideas for more wise men reading more good books in more public libraries. These libraries should be open to all—except the censor. We must know all t...
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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Contentment is a pearl of great price, and whoever procures it at the expense of ten thousand desires makes a wise and a happy purchase
John Balguy
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Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship.
James Russell Lowell
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A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses.
Hippocrates
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Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
Henry Ward Beecher
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It is neither wise nor brave to question God. It is the folly of a prideful heart
Don Williams, Jr
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The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
William James
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All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.
Henry David Thoreau
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Education, n.: That which discloses the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
Ambrose Bierce
