Wise Quotes

The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct. Marcus Tullius Cicero

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We are braver and wiser because they existed, those strong women and strong men... We are who we are because they were who they were. It's wise to know where you come from, who called your name. Maya Angelou

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The man who can keep a secret may be wise, but he is not half as wise as the man with no secrets to keep. E. W. Howe

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Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart. Alan Alda

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Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world. Helen Keller

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A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence. David Hume

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It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look further than you can see. Winston Churchill

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The wise does at once what the fool does at last. Baltasar Gracian

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When I was a sophomore at USC, I was a socialist, pretty much to the left. But not when I left the university. I quickly got wise. I'd read about what had happened to Russia in 1917 when the Communists took over. John Wayne

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It's a wise man who understands that every day is a new beginning, because boy, how many mistakes do you make in a day? I don't know about you, but I make plenty. You can't turn the clock back, so you have to look ahead. Mel Gibson

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No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master. Hunter S. Thompson

Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men. Harry Day

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The Supreme Court has ruled that they cannot have a nativity scene in Washington, D.C. This wasn't for any religious reasons. They couldn't find three wise men and a virgin. Jay Leno

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Who is wise in love, love most, say least. Alfred Lord Tennyson

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Every judgement of conscience, be it right or wrong, be it about things evil in themselves or morally indifferent, is obligatory, in such wise that he who acts against his conscience always sins. Thomas Aquinas

True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance. Akhenaton

An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight... the truly wise person is colorblind. Albert Schweitzer

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He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened. Lao Tzu

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