Famous Quotes: Wise

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 friend, a companion, a second self.
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When our governments want to sell us a course of action, they do it by making sure it's the only thing on the agenda, the only thing everyone's talking about. And they pre-load the ensuing discussion with highly selected images, devious and prejudicial language, dubious linkages, weak or false 'intelligence' and selected 'leaks.'
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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.
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My father also happened to be an intellectual, as learned, literate, informed, and curious as anyone I have known. Unobtrusively and casually, he was my wise and gentle teacher.
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Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
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The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.
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I'm so not stylish by nature, but I've learned to work with what I have.
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Madam, I have been looking for a person who disliked gravy all my life; let us swear eternal friendship.
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I have not been that wise. Health I have taken for granted. Love I have demanded, perhaps too much and too often. As for money, I have only realized its true worth when I didn't have it.
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When we become a really mature, grown-up, wise society, we will put teachers at the center of the community, where they belong. We don't honor them enough, we don't pay them enough.
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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.
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Who is wise in love, love most, say least.
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So even though I consider myself a fairly upbeat person, energetic and things like that, I never do very well on happiness tests.
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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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The weak have remedies, the wise have joys; superior wisdom is superior bliss.
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We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.
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The conqueror is regarded with awe; the wise man commands our respect; but it is only the benevolent man that wins our affection.
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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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The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations.
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Women have always been the strong ones of the world. The men are always seeking from women a little pillow to put their heads down on. They are always longing for the mother who held them as infants.
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