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Quotes About Wise

Advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill.
~ J. R. R. Tolkien
We do not need a heavy hand, just wise policies and an understanding that some things are so big or risky that only the government can be the catalyst for action.
~ Dan Rather
Tem a expressão intensa, mas gentil, uma combinação de ancião sábio com bichinho de pelúcia, e vem com uma mensagem: Nesta sala, vou te ver e você tentará se esconder, mas mesmo assim te verei, e tudo bem que seja assim.
~ Lori Gottlieb
In retrospect all fools become wise.
~ Ludwig von Mises
The wise shall inherit glory, but shame shall be the promotion of fools.'" (Prov. 3:35)
~ John Bunyan
Then I saw in my Dream, that when they were got out of the Wilderness, they presently saw a Town before them, and the name of that Town is Vanity; and at the Town there is a Fair kept, called Vanity Fair: it is kept all the year long; it beareth the name of Vanity Fair, because the Town where 'tis kept is lighter than Vanity; and also because all that is there sold, or that cometh thither, is Vanity. As is the saying of the wise, All that cometh is Vanity. Section
~ John Bunyan
Broken heart is where the wise man turns away and where the faithful kneel and call on God.
~ Unknown
The faults of a man loved or honoured sometimes steal secretly and imperceptibly upon the wise and virtuous, but by injudicious fondness or thoughtless vanity are adopted with design.
~ Samuel Johnson
The desire of glory is the last infirmity cast off even by the wise.
~ Tacitus
I'm very logical.
~ Daryl Morey
The Word of God always speaks of two great divisions of mankind, and only two. It speaks of the living and the dead in sin, the believer and the unbeliever, the converted and the unconverted, the travelers in the narrow way and the travelers in the broad, the wise and the foolish, the children of God and the children of the devil.
~ J.C. Ryle
However Santa is handled in your home, it provides an opportunity to teach children about wise words as they are exposed to those whose Christmas tradition differs from theirs.
~ Unknown
a pattern of wise choices in the ordinary paves the road to a demonstration of wisdom in the extraordinary.
~ Lysa TerKeurst
But the man with the knowhow, the boy who thinks up the gadgets, they can't put him out. I can outsmart 'em at their own game too. We got somethin' bigger down here than they ever dreamed of. And the Administration all fixed up. This is goin' to be big, little girl, the biggest thing you ever saw and I'm goin' to let you in on it. We'll be on easystreet from now on. And when you're on easystreet you'll all forget poor old Charley Anderson the boy that put you wise.
~ John Dos Passos
But I just know from experience that accent wise, even if you're an accent genius, crossing the Atlantic is the hardest thing in the world either way.
~ Hugh Grant
The Commons, faithful to their system, remained in a wise and masterly inactivity.
~ James Mackintosh
She is sensitive but not touchy. She is kind to all but has discernment. She is confident but not arrogant. She is who I hope to be.
~ Rachel Hamilton
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet.
~ Unknown
Clever is getting out of a sticky situation, wise is not getting into a sticky situation, you may not always be clever enough.
~ Unknown
If the ignorant could be happy there'd be no reason for anyone to struggle to become wise. Nature has decreed that the ignorant can never be happy, and in their lack of knowledge is the secret of their own misfortunes.
~ Unknown
Let us not then suspect our happie State   Left so imperfet by the Maker wise,   As not secure to single or combin'd.   Fraile is our happiness, if this be so,   And EDEN were no EDEN thus expos'd.
~ John Milton
Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen.
~ John Muir
Prosperity hath slain the foolish and wounded the wise.
~ John Owen
The persons who become rich are, generally speaking, industrious, resolute, proud, covetous, prompt, methodical, sensible, unimaginative, insensitive, and ignorant. The persons who remain poor are the entirely foolish, the entirely wise, the idle, the reckless, the humble, the thoughtful, the dull, the imaginative, the sensitive, the well-informed, the improvident, the irregularly and impulsively wicked, the clumsy knave, the open thief, and the entirely merciful just and godly person.
~ John Ruskin