Famous Quotes: Wise

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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Ours is an excessively conscious age. We know so much, we feel so little.
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The wise man regulates his conduct by the theories both of religion and science. But he regards these theories not as statements of ultimate fact but as art-forms.
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My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence.
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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.
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Barack Obama's enemies are the people who make this country work. Barack Obama's enemies are those who succeed. Those are the people whose income he wants to redistribute. Those are the people whose income he wants to take, using the power and the force of the federal government to do it.
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Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable.
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When I can look life in the eyes, grown calm and very coldly wise, life will have given me the truth, and taken in exchange - my youth.
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Wise are those who learn that the bottom line doesn't always have to be their top priority.
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I think being a wealthy member of the establishment is the antithesis of cool. Being a countercultural revolutionary is cool. So to the extent that you've made a billion dollars, you've probably become uncool.
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I get to meet fantastic people, and I get to go through so many emotions. For me, I have a craving for that. When I'm acting, I feel great. It's not to be famous.
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I believe that President Clinton considered the legal merits of the arguments for the pardon as he understood them, and he rendered his judgment, wise or unwise, on the merits.
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A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.
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Men are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions.
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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.
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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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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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A wise woman knows how to summon her courage and do what is right, rather than what is easy.
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Since, therefore, no man is born without faults, and he is esteemed the best whose errors are the least, let the wise man consider everything human as connected with himself; for in worldly affairs there is no perfect happiness under heaven.
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I feel like my honesty gives people the freedom to talk about things they wouldn't otherwise.
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