Very Wise Quotes - Page 2

• My body is very wise; it knows how to heal itself.

  Louise Hay

  Wise, Heal Itself, Body

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• it takes the very wisest person there is to know when to talk, and when to keep still.

  Gene Stratton-Porter

  Talking, Persons, Stills

  Gene Stratton-Porter (2016). “Gene Stratton-Porter Collection: A Girl of the Limberlost, Freckles, Laddie, The Harvester, A Daughter of the Land, At the Foot of the Rainbow, Her Fatther's Daughter, Michale O'Halloran”, p.806, Xist Publishing

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• It is a pity that, commonly, more care is had--yea, and that among very wise men--to find out rather a cunning man for their horse than a cunning man for their children.

  Roger Ascham

  Wise, Horse, Children

  Roger Ascham (1815). “The English Works of Roger Ascham: Preceptor to Queen Elizabeth”, p.206

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• I have always taken the view that sometimes war may be justified, as police action can be justified, to protect the weak and vulnerable (a major preoccupation in scripture). But this is an old and difficult question and very wise people take different views.

  N. T. Wright

  Wise, War, Taken

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• I think that we'd be very wise not to predict anything with Donald Trump.

  Rashid Khalidi

  Wise, Thinking, Trump

  Source: www.democracynow.org

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• Lucky risk takers use hindsight to reinforce their feeling that their gut is very wise. Hindsight also reinforces others' trust in that individual's gut.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Wise, Feelings, Risk

  "Kahneman and Klein on strategic decisions: When can you trust your gut?". Interview with Gary Klein, bobmorris.biz. September 25, 2016.

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• It really was something, to see Ram Bahadur Bomjon, apparently living without food or water. Before I went on that trip I'd asked advice on it from a very wise person who I love and revere - basically trying to see if I was somehow disrespecting Buddhism by trying to write about it, and also looking for some grounding on what stance to take ... and my friend said, "Well, why don't you just go and see?" And I hear that in my head all the time now: "Why don't you go and see?"

  George Saunders

  Wise, Writing, Buddhism

  Source: sojo.net

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• There is a certain amount of pornography that exists throughout Purple Rain, but the appeal is obvious. You can really pick that picture apart and see where "A" fits into "B" and so on. It was very wisely done.

  Gene Kelly

  Rain, Purple, Done

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The man of system is apt to be very wise in his own conceit. In the great chess board of human society, every single piece has a principle of motion of its own altogether different from that which the legislature might choose to impress upon it

  Adam Smith

  Wise, Men, Might

  Adam Smith (1817). “The Theory of Moral Sentiments: Or, An Essay Towards an Analysis of the Principles by which Men Naturally Judge Concerning the Conduct and Character, First of Their Neighbours, and Afterwards of Themselves : to which is Added, A Dissertation on the Origin of Languages”, p.379

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• We won't make the weak stronger by making the strong weaker, as a very wise man once said. That applies to the economy as well. If Germany were less competitive, the euro area as a whole would lose, because less could be produced then.

  Mario Draghi

  Wise, Strong, Men

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• When somebody can be intimidated, I use this. Because I'm very wise person. I know how to intimidate my opponents. I know how to play tricky stuff for them.

  Kostya Tszyu

  Wise, Play, Use

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• Woody Allen once said that 'I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.' This is certainly a very wise wish! Whoever grasped the triviality of anything besides the existence is a wise man indeed! There is no substitute for life!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Life, Wise, Men

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• Better be an old maid, a woman with herself as a husband, than the wife of a fool; and Solomon more than hints that all men are fools; and every wise man knows himself to be one.

  Herman Melville

  Wise, Husband, Men

  Herman Melville (1849). “Mardi: And a Voyage Thither”, p.62

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• I can't even begin to describe how I miss him. He always supported me in everything I did. He was a very wise man and I realised at an early age I could learn a lot from him. He always gave me the right answer. But above all he was a very easy-going guy and all he wanted was to be my best friend. I'm an only child and so he shared everything with me. Of course he was very young to die and I was very young to lose a father. But there was nothing left unsaid between us.

  Dhani Harrison

  Wise, Children, Father

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• My mother was a very wise and strong person.

  Jennifer Hudson

  Wise, Mother, Strong

  "In tears, Jennifer Hudson testifies at trial of man accused of killing her relatives" by Ted Rowlands, Katherine Wojtecki, www.cnn.com. April 23, 2012.

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• A very wise quote is a spectacular waterfall! When you see it, you feel its power!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Wise, Waterfalls, Feels

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• Nature, being a wise and provident lady, governs her parts very wisely, methodically, and orderly: Also, she is very industrious and hates to be idle, which makes her employ her time as a good housewife doth.

  Margaret Cavendish

  Wise, Nature, Hate

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• It's been a long time since NATO was created, and I also think Donald Trump has spoken very wisely about the need to rethink the mission of NATO.

  Mike Pence

  Thinking, Long, Nato

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Faeries are not fantasy, but a connection to reality. Faeries are irrational, poetic, absurd, and very, very wise. Faeries say there is nonsense in dogma, and sense in nonsense. Faeries express themselves with high seriousness and low humour. Faeries are resistant to all definitions.

  Brian Froud

  Wise, Reality, Connections

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• Mr. Steven Bochco is a very wise man. After a many-monthed nationwide search to find a precocious teenage doctor, he hired me.

  Neil Patrick Harris

  Wise, Teenage, Men

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• And, looking on it with lack-lustre eye,
  Says very wisely, "It is ten o'clock:
  Thus we may see," quoth he, "how the world wags."

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Eye, World

  William Shakespeare, Michael Hattaway (2009). “As You Like It”, p.133, Cambridge University Press

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• There is an old and very wise Native American saying: Every time you point a finger in scorn—there are three remaining fingers pointing right back at you.

  Alyson Noel

  Wise, Native American, Three

  Alyson Noel (2012). “Fated”, p.173, Pan Macmillan

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• Georgian film is a completely unique phenomenon, vivid, philosophically inspiring, very wise, childlike. There is everything that can make me cry and I ought to say that it (my crying) is not an easy thing.

  Federico Fellini

  Wise, Unique, Vivid

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• In his face there came to be a brooding peace that is seen most often in the faces of the very sorrowful or the very wise. But still he wandered through the streets of the town, always silent and alone.

  Carson McCullers

  Wise, Faces, Towns

  Carson McCullers (2010). “The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter”, p.13, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends. I have not much hope that Gollum can be cured before he dies, but there is a chance of it. And he is bound up with the fate of the Ring. My heart tells me that he has some part to play yet, for good or ill, before the end; and when that comes, the pity of Bilbo may rule the fate of many - yours not least.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Wise, Heart, Fate

  "The Fellowship of the Ring". Book by J. R. R. Tolkien, 1954.

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