Wise Quotes - Page 22

• A wise person laughs and smiles through the eyes. . . . The smile and laughter through the eyes influence people tremendously. No energy leaks if you smile through the eyes.

  Sivananda

  Smile, Laughter, Eye

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• We cannot at once catch the applauses of the vulgar and expect the approbation of the wise.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Praise, Applause, Vulgar

  Walter Savage Landor, Charles George Crump (1909). “Imaginary Conversations: Classical dialogues (Roman) Dialogues of sovereigns and statesmen”

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• One day you will wake up and there won’t be any more time to do the things you’ve always wanted. Do it now. The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.

  Paulo Coelho

  Simple, One Day, Wake Up

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• O, to bring back the great Homeric time, The simple manners and the deed sublime: When the wise Wanderer, often foiled by Fate, Through the long furrow drave the ploughshare straight.

  Mortimer Collins

  Fate, Past, Simple

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• A man is a golden impossibility. The line he must walk is a hair's breadth. The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Hair, Lines

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.209, Penguin

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• Whoever yields properly to Fate, is deemed Wise among men, and knows the laws of heaven.

  Euripides

  Fate, Men, Yield

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• You must not judge people by their country. In South America, it is always wise to judge people by their altitude.

  Paul Theroux

  Country, America, People

  Paul Theroux (2014). “The Old Patagonian Express: By Train Through the Americas”, p.295, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The wise man knows when to keep silent. Only the fool tells all he knows.

  Neil Gaiman

  Men, Fool, Silent

  Neil Gaiman (2014). “Neil Gaiman Young Readers' Collection: Odd and the Frost Giants; Coraline; The Graveyard Book; Fortunately, the Milk”, p.25, Harper Collins

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• What would you be like if you had white hair and had not given up your principles? It might be wise as you deal with coalition efforts to think about the possibilities of going for fifty years.

  Bernice Johnson Reagon

  Thinking, Hair, Years

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• The way of the superior person is threefold; virtuous, they are free from anxieties; wise they are free from perplexities; and bold they are free from fear.

  Confucius

  Fear, Anxiety, Way

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• Logic is immaturity weaving its nets of gossamer wherewith it aims to catch the behemoth of knowledge. Logic is a crutch for the cripple, but a burden for the swift of foot and a greater burden still for the wise.

  Mikhail Naimy

  Feet, Immaturity, Weaving

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• Who, in the midst of just provocation to anger, instantly finds the fit word which settles all around him in silence is more than wise or just; he is, were he a beggar, of more than royal blood, he is of celestial descent.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Blood, Silence, Royal

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• The wise man is wise in vain who cannot be wise to his own advantage.
  [Lat., Nequicquam sapere sapientem, qui ipse sibi prodesse non quiret.]

  Quintus Ennius

  Wisdom, Men, Vain

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• The conscience is more wise than science.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Conscience

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• We may admire people for being wise, but we like them best when they are foolish.

  Mary Russell Mitford

  People, May, Foolish

  Mary Russell Mitford (1870). “The Life of Mary Russell Mitford ; Related in an Selection from Her Letters to Her Friends. Ed. by A.G. Estrange”, p.21

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• It is not wise to be wiser than is necessary.
  [Fr., Ce n'est pas etre sage
  D'etre plus sage qu'il ne le faut.]

  Philippe Quinault

  Wisdom, Sage, Plus

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• I will be a wise and tolerant monarch, dispencing justice fairly, and only setting nightmares to rip out the winds of the evil and the wicked. Or just anybody that I don't like.

  Neil Gaiman

  Rip, Wind, Evil

  "Sandman: Preludes & Nocturnes". Сomic book series by Neil Gaiman, 1989.

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• It is little the sign of a wise or good man, to suffer temperance to be transgressed in order to purchase the repute of a generous entertainer.

  Francis Atterbury

  Men, Order, Suffering

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• Death is a woman, and for that reason she's courageous and just, and never makes distinctions between mortals; she'll crush the ignorant, the arrogant, and the wise alike under her icy foot.

  Rosario Ferre

  Crush, Death, Feet

  Rosario Ferré (1996). “Sweet Diamond Dust: And Other Stories”, Plume Books

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• Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.

  Edward Young

  Birthday, Fortune Cookie, Getting Older

  The Love of Fame Satire 2, l. 282 (1725 - 1728)

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• A warm blundering man does more for the world than a frigid wise man.

  Lord David Cecil

  Men, Doe, World

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• Over the years they both reached the same wise conclusion by different paths: it was not possible to live together in any other way, or love in any other way, and nothing in this world was more difficult than love.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Years, Together, Different

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• Many wise words are spoken in jest, but they don't compare with the number of stupid words spoken in earnest.

  Sam Levenson

  Funny, Stupid, Numbers

  Sam Levenson (2016). “You Don't Have to Be in Who's Who to Know What's What: The Choice Wit and Wisdom of Sam Levenson”, p.86, Open Road Media

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• There’s nothing as significant as a human face. Nor as eloquent. We can never really know another person, except by our first glance at him. Because, in that glance, we know everything. Even though we’re not always wise enough to unravel the knowledge.

  Ayn Rand

  Understanding, Faces, Firsts

  Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.345, Penguin

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• He who is certain he knows the ending of things when he is only beginning them is either extremely wise or extremely foolish; no matter which is true, he is certainly an unhappy man, for he has put a knife in the heart of wonder.

  Tad Williams

  Heart, Men, Knives

  Tad Williams (2005). “The Dragonbone Chair: Book One of Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn”, p.16, Penguin

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