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• Even the wisest woman you talk to is ignorant of something you may know, but an elegant woman never forgets her elegance.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Ignorant, May, Never Forget

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• I wonder if they realize how much I notice about them They probably haven't a clue because I never look at them or show the slightest interest. But I'm very aware of everything. I remember seeing an old film once where a father says to his son: "Son when your mouth's open you're not learning anything." If that's true then I'm well on the way to becoming the world's wisest woman.

  John Marsden

  Father, Son, Looks

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• To only responsible choice I can make is to be love and happiness." Vincellent "Love the world as you love yourself".Lao Tze "The next step in mans evolution will be the survival of the wisest.

  Deepak Chopra

  Spiritual, Love Yourself, Choices

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• You shone like a star. The funniest, wisest writer & the finest friend

  Neil Gaiman

  Stars, Finest

  Twitter post from Mar 26, 2011

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• It is the briefest yet wisest maxim which tells us to meddle not.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Wise, Argument, Maxims

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• The wisest among my race understand that agitations of social equality is the extremist folly, and that progress in the enjoyment of all privileges that will come to us must be the result of severe and constant struggle rather than of artificial forcing.

  Booker T. Washington

  Struggle, Race, Progress

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• The boy heaved a sigh. "I would ask to go with you," he said, " but I have to finish my lessons. I so look forward to the day when I know everything. Then I won't have to read any more books or do any more counting." Beatrix smiled. "I don't wish to be discouraging, Rye, but it's not possible to know everything." "Mama does." Rye paused reflectively. "At least, Papa says we mus t pretend she does, because it makes her happy." "Your father," Beatrix informed him with a laugh, " is one of the wisest men I've ever known.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Father, Book, Men

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• All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Light, Shadow, Life Is

  Leo Tolstoy (2016). “Anna Karenina (World Classics, Unabridged)”, p.38, Vij Books India Pvt Ltd

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• The wisest man is the silent one. Examine his actions. Judge him by them.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Men, Wisest Man, Judging

  Karen Marie Moning (2016). “The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned”, p.408, Dell

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• Passion often makes fools of the wisest men and gives the silliest wisdom.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Passion, Men, Wisest Man

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• Judgment of the people is often wiser than the wisest men.

  Lajos Kossuth

  Men, Wisest Man, People

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• Remember that the greatest fool in the world may ask more than the wisest man can answer.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Men, Wisest Man, Answers

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• She decided that her wisest course would be to put him out of her mind. After reaching this conclusion she lay thinking about him until at last she fell asleep.

  Georgette Heyer

  Thinking, Mind, Would Be

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• In one thing you have not changed, dear friend," said Aragorn: "you still speak in riddles." "What? In riddles?" said Gandalf. "No! For I was talking aloud to myself. A habit of the old: they choose the wisest person present to speak to; the long explanations needed by the young are wearying.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Talking, Long, Speak

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Two Towers: Being the Second Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.485, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Wisest is she who knows she does not know.

  Jostein Gaarder

  Philosophy, Science, Doe

  Jostein Gaarder (2010). “Sophie's World”, p.66, Hachette UK

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• What children we are, even the wisest! When God walks the earth, his steps are often centuries apart.

  Lew Wallace

  Children, Earth, Steps

  Lew Wallace (2016). “Ben-Hur (Diversion Classics)”, p.398, Diversion Books

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• Sometimes, life threw up problems that even the wisest, most trusted mentor couldn't solve for you. It was part of the pain of growing up. And having to stand by and watch was part of being a mentor.

  John Flanagan

  Growing Up, Pain, Mentor

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• If we believe in a God at all, we must surely ascribe to him perfection of wisdom and perfection of goodness; we are then forced to conceive of Him - however strange it may sound to those who believe, not only without seeing but also without thinking - as without will, because He must always necessarily pursue the course which is wisest and best.

  Annie Besant

  Believe, Thinking, Perfection

  Annie Besant (2012). “The Theosophical Writings of Annie Besant”, p.223, Jazzybee Verlag

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• you can not fully read a book without being alone. But through this very solitude you become intimately involved with people whom you might never have met otherwise, either because they have been dead for centuries or because they spoke languages you cannot understand. And, nonetheless, they have become your closest friends, your wisest advisors, the wizards that hypnotize you, the lovers you have always dreamed of. -Antonio munoz molinas, "the power of the pen

  Cornelia Funke

  Book, People, Solitude

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• In private conversation between intimate friends, the wisest men very often talk like the weakest : for indeed the talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.

  Joseph Addison

  Friends, Men, Thinking

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1826). “The Spectator: With Notes, and a General Index”, p.293

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• The wisest were just the poor and simple people. They knew the war to be a misfortune, whereas those who were better off, and should have been able to see more clearly what the consequences would be, were beside themselves with joy.

  Erich Maria Remarque

  War, Simple, Should Have

  Erich Maria Remarque, Helmuth Kiesel, Joseph Roth (2004). “All quiet on the western front”, Continuum International Publishing Group

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• Ten times a day something happens to me like this - some strengthening throb of amazement - some good sweet empathic ping and swell. This is the first, the wildest and the wisest thing I know: that the soul exists and is built entirely out of attentiveness.

  Mary Oliver

  Inspirational, Sweet, Soul

  FaceBook post by Mary Oliver from Mar 28, 2017

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• Nothing can be more notorious than the calumnies and invectives with which the wisest measures and most virtuous characters of The United States have been pursued and traduced [By American Newspapers]

  Thurgood Marshall

  Character, United States, Notorious

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• All political theories assume, of course, that most individuals are very ignorant. Those who plead for liberty differ from the rest in that they include among the ignorant themselves as well as the wisest. Compared with the totality of knowledge which is continually utilized in the evolution of a dynamic civilization, the difference between the knowledge that the wisest and that the most ignorant individual can deliberately employ is comparatively insignificant.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Differences, Civilization, Political

  "The Constitution of Liberty". Book by Friedrich Hayek. Part I: "The Value of Freedom". Chapter 2: "The Creative Power of a Free Civilization", 1960.

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• The wisest man I ever knew in my whole life could not read or write.

  Jose Saramago

  Writing, Men, Wisest Man

  "How Characters Became the Masters and the Author Their Apprentice". Jose Saramago's Nobel lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 7, 1998.

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