Famous Quotes: Wise

I want to state upfront, unequivocally and without doubt: I do not believe that any racial, ethnic or gender group has an advantage in sound judging. I do believe that every person has an equal opportunity to be a good and wise judge, regardless of their background or life experiences.
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We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.
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We ought to fly away from earth to heaven as quickly as we can; and to fly away is to become like God, as far as this is possible; and to become like him is to become holy, just, and wise.
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Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
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The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
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Art does not reproduce what we see; rather, it makes us see.
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It is not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.
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There are older men with younger women but you don't see a lot of older women with younger men. There are some women who have been able to do it but not often.
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Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.
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It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods.
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Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action.
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I wish the government and the Minister of Justice would address these legal and constitutional arguments, but they refuse to. They want Canadians to go blindly into their brave new world, but it is not wise for a society to move blindly in any direction.
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I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn't lived that life.
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What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.
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Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable.
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Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
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A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it.
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The intellect of the wise is like glass; it admits the light of heaven and reflects it.
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Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.
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These people are very unskilled in arms... with 50 men they could all be subjected and made to do all that one wished.
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