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A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.

Bruce Lee


True love is not a strong, fiery, impetuous passion. It is, on the contrary, an element calm and deep. It looks beyond mere externals, and is attracted by qualities alone. It is wise and discriminating, and its devotion is real and abiding.


 Ellen G. WhiteA word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones that need the advice.

Bill Cosby


A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men.

 Plato


I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.

Edgar Allan Poe


Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away.

Arthur Helps


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


Those who gave thee a body, furnished it with weakness; but He who gave thee Soul, armed thee with resolution. Employ it, and thou art wise; be wise and thou art happy.

 Akhenaton


Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

 Alphonse de Lamartine


I never think of myself as wise. I think of myself as possessing a critical intelligence which I intend to allow to operate.

Harold Pinter


The monsters of our childhood do not fade away, neither are they ever wholly monstrous. But neither, in my experience, do we ever reach a plane of detachment regarding our parents, however wise and old we may become. To pretend otherwise is to cheat.

 John le Carre


It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.

 Victor Hugo


Time ripens all things; no man is born wise.

 Miguel de Cervantes


A wise traveler never depreciates their own country.

 Carlo Goldoni


Politics, like theater, is one of those things where you've got to be wise enough to know when to leave.

 Richard Lamm


My mother went to university, my father didn't. But they are very educated, very wise people. My father went to the military, so he's worldly.

 Chuck D


I'm not under the illusion that everything's just going to be hunky-dory work wise forever. I've never been under that illusion. Things could go away tomorrow.

 Mel Gibson


Is it possible Hanukkah doesn't inspire folksy songs? Plot lines may be a part. The Christmas story has a lot of material to work with. There's Jesus and his birth, the wise men, their gifts and tons of frankincense.

 Matisyahu


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.

 James Tobin


It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it may happen that those who need sympathy the most often attract it the least.

F. H. Bradley


It can't possibly last for years and browsing has its limits. Only a certain amount is healthy or wise.

 Judith Krantz


Zeal is fit for wise men, but flourishes chiefly among fools.

 John Tillotson


I never mean to be disrespectful, and I don't mean to be a wise guy.

 Charles Grodin


Make the wise man within you your living ideal.

 Karl G. Maeser


If somebody is not on the same page with me humor wise, I can't give them that.

 Stephan Pastis


The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

Theodor Reik


I think in a play it's wise to just sit back and watch other actors and be able to shape it from the audience.

 Zach Braff


The fool inherits, but the wise must get.

 William Cartwright


Business wise, I have always learned valuable lessons so I don't regret any decisions I have made.

 Kiana Tom


I don't think a wise thing at this moment is for Israel to launch a military attack on Iran.

 William Hague


I had a very wise mother. She always kept books that were my grade level in our house.

 Beverly Cleary


Chinese are wise in comprehending without many words what is inevitable and inescapable and therefore only to be borne.

 Pearl S. Buck


The wise man... if he would live at peace with others, he will bear and forbear.

Samuel Smiles


We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.

Georg C. Lichtenberg


They would need to be already wise, in order to love wisdom.

Friedrich Schiller


A wise woman knows how to summon her courage and do what is right, rather than what is easy.

Suze Orman

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