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A wise woman puts a grain of sugar into everything she says to a man, and takes a grain of salt with everything he says to her.

 Helen Rowland


The intellect of the wise is like glass; it admits the light of heaven and reflects it.

 Augustus Hare


The only question which any wise man can ask himself, and which any honest man will ask himself, is whether a doctrine is true or false.

 Thomas Huxley


It is not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.
William Hazlitt


A wise woman recognizes when her life is out of balance and summons the courage to act to correct it, she knows the meaning of true generosity, happiness is the reward for a life lived in harmony, with a courage and grace.

 Suze Orman


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


Where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise.

 Thomas Gray


Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves.

 Thomas Hobbes


My idea is always to reach my generation. The wise writer writes for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmasters of ever afterward.

 F. Scott Fitzgerald


The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself, he becomes wise.

 Alden Nowlan


You can be very wild and still be very wise.

 Yoko Ono


Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.

 Matsuo Basho


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.


 AkhenatonIt is wise to persuade people to do things and make them think it was their own idea.

Nelson Mandela


The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forbearing.

 Epictetus


People can do all kinds of things that maybe aren't wise in hindsight because of jealousy.

 Kristin Bauer van Straten


You are wise, witty and wonderful, but you spend too much time reading this sort of stuff.

 Frank Crane


What could be more beautiful than a dear old lady growing wise with age? Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it.

 Brigitte Bardot


Religious ideas about good and evil tend to focus on how to achieve well-being in the next life, and this makes them terrible guides to securing it in this one. Of course, there are a few gems to be found in every religious tradition, but insofar as these precepts are wise and useful they are not, in principle, religious.

 Sam Harris


I'm considered wise, and sometimes I see myself as knowing. Most of the time, I see myself as wanting to know. And I see myself as a very interested person. I've never been bored in my life.

 Maya Angelou


If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.

 William Butler Yeats

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