Wise Quotes - Page 16

• To keep on trying in spite of disappointment and failure is the only way to keep young and brave. Failures become victories if they make us wise-hearted.

  Helen Keller

  Disappointment, Brave, Victory

  Helen Keller (2000). “To Love this Life: Quotations”, p.107, American Foundation for the Blind

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• As for omens, there is no such thing as an omen. Destiny does not send us heralds. She is too wise or too cruel for that.

  Oscar Wilde

  Destiny, Doe, Superstitions

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.154, GENERAL PRESS

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• It was wise enough to know itself, and brave enough to be itself, and wild enough to change itself while somehow staying altogether true.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Brave, Enough, Staying

  Patrick Rothfuss (2014). “The Slow Regard of Silent Things”, p.10, Penguin

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• With children use force; with men reason; such is the natural order of things. The wise man requires no law.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Children, Men, Order

  Jean Jacques Rousseau (2013). “Emile or Concerning Education”, p.39, Simon and Schuster

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• Opportunity seldom come along and knock you on the Head.

  Jon Jones

  Opportunity

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• Now this relaxation of the mind from work consists on playful words or deeds. Therefore it becomes a wise and virtuous man to have recourse to such things at times.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Men, Relaxation, Mind

  St Thomas Aquinas (2013). “Summa Theologica, Volume 4 (Part III, First Section)”, p.1872, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I'm moving into that eldership age, you know? I'm at the 'wise woman' age where it's not about learning, but utilizing the information that I have in a way that serves other people. That's
  a high calling and it's a great responsibility.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Moving, Responsibility, People

  "EXCLUSIVE: Iyanla Vanzant Dishes on Fix My Life, Growth, and Her Mission for Viewers". Interview with Regina R. Robertson, www.essence.com. September 14, 2012.

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• The more women there are about, the softer a wise man steps.

  Robert Jordan

  Men, Steps

  Robert Jordan (2010). “The Fires of Heaven: Book Five of 'The Wheel of Time'”, p.104, Macmillan

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• No wise man can have a contempt for the prejudices of others; and he should even stand in a certain awe of his own, as if they were aged parents and monitors. They may in the end prove wiser than he.

  William Hazlitt

  Men, Parent, Prejudice

  William Hazlitt (1837). “Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].”, p.55

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• Changi for me - of course it's easy to be wise after the event, and to discuss it cleverly after the event - was about as near as you can get to being dead and still be alive.

  James Clavell

  Events, Alive, Easy

  Interview with Don Swaim of CBS Radio, 1986.

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• Those who take up any subject with an open mind, willing to learn anything that will contribute to their advancement, comfort and happiness, are wise.

  Roger McDonald

  Mind, Comfort, Advancement

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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

  Mistake, New Beginnings, Boys

  "Mel Gibson Tells Some Brutal Truths About The Amazing 'Apocalypto'". Interview with Kurt Loder, www.mtv.com. December 14, 2006.

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• Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Fashion, Ignorance, Knowledge

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• What you fear most of all is - fear. Very wise.

  J. K. Rowling

  Fear, Potters, Remus Lupin

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• 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

  Thinking, Play, Watches

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• My goal every time I make a record is just to make the funkiest, the best music I could possibly make, both lyrically, and music-wise.

  Big Boi

  Goal, Records

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A person understands other's language only in tune with his attitude with most people all the time, so it's wise to act nice with individuals only in proportion with the truth cherished in their lives.

  Anuj

  Attitude, Nice, People

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• Gentlemen, let us suppose that man is not stupid. (Indeed one cannot refuse to suppose that, if only from the one consideration, that, if man is stupid, then who is wise?) But if he is not stupid, he is monstrously ungrateful! Phenomenally ungrateful. In fact, I believe that the best definition of man is the ungrateful biped.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Stupid, Believe, Men

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2018). “White Nights and Other Stories”, p.93, Youcanprint

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• Even a queen stubs her toe, but a wise woman watches the path.

  Robert Jordan

  Queens, Watches, Path

  Robert Jordan (2010). “The Fires of Heaven: Book Five of 'The Wheel of Time'”, p.561, Macmillan

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• Sometimes when everything has totally apart, the meaningless preoccupations that so often dominate our lives simply fall away. And what is left is who we really are, and who we really are is compassionate and intelligent and wise.

  Marianne Williamson

  Fall, Intelligent, Sometimes

  "Marianne Williamson on Consciousness, Women and Politics". Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 09, 2012.

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• We deny that it is fun to be saving. It is fun to be prodigal. Go to the butterfly, thou parsimonious sluggard; consider her ways and get wise.

  Franklin P. Adams

  Fun, Butterfly, Extravagance

  Franklin P. Adams (1944). “Nods and Becks”

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• A wise word is not a substitute for a piece of herring.

  Sholom Aleichem

  Pieces, Substitutes, Herring

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• A person who is wise does nothing against their will, nothing with sighing or under coercion.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Doe, Coercion, Willpower

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• So the state founded on natural principles is wise as a whole in virtue of the knowledge inherent in its smallest constituent class, which exercises authority over the rest. And the smallest class is the one which naturally possesses that form of knowledge which alone of all others deserves the title of wisdom.

  Plato

  Exercise, Class, Political

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• A wise man once said, 'The skill in attending a party is knowing when it's time to leave.'

  Michael Stipe

  Party, Men, Skills

  "Mike Mills on why R.E.M. are calling it quits" by David Fricke, www.cnn.com. September 26, 2011.

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