Famous Quotes: Wise

Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.
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If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.
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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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No, I will be the pattern of all patience; I will say nothing.
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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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If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.
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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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If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.
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Pride, envy, avarice - these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men.
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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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Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
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Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?
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Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable.
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I don't think it's a good advert for any restaurant, a fat chef, and secondly, who wants to eat a dessert when the chef's a fat pig.
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A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circlue of our felicities.
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The wise musicians are those who play what they can master.
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Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
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I will give you a definition of a proud man: he is a man who has neither vanity nor wisdom one filled with hatreds cannot be vain, neither can he be wise.
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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.
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Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.
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