Wise Quotes - Page 18

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

  Jon Jones

  Opportunity

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• The wise are always impatient, for he that increases knowledge increases impatience of folly.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Wisdom, Impatient, Impatience

  Baltasar Gracian (2006). “The Art of Worldly Wisdom”, p.65, Shambhala Publications

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• Five minutes of today are worth as much to me, as five minutes in the next millennium.
  Let us be poised, and wise, and our own, today.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Motivational, Today, Next

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.479, Library of America

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• He that is rich is wise.

  Daniel Defoe

  Wealth, Rich

  Daniel Defoe (1840). “A System of Magic”, p.19

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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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• None wise dares hopeless venture.

  Euripides

  Venture, Hopeless, Dare

  Helena, l.811 (translated by A S Way, 1959).

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• An enormously vast field lies between "God exists" and "there is no God." The truly wise man traverses it with great difficulty. A Russian knows one or the other of these two extremes, but is not interested in the middle ground. He usually knows nothing, or very little.

  Anton Chekhov

  Lying, Men, Two

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• When the ignorant have become numerous or powerful enough, they have been referred to by a special name. This names is 'the Wise'.

  Idries Shah

  Powerful, Names, Ignorant

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• The wise men were all fools, what to do?

  Bruce Springsteen

  Men, Fool

  Song: The Last to Die, Album: Magic, 2007

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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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• 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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• Among the wise and high-minded people who in self-respecting and genuine fashion strive earnestly for peace, there are the foolish fanatics always to be found in such a movement and always discrediting it the men who form the lunatic fringe in all reform movements.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Fashion, Men, Self

  Theodore Roosevelt (1899). “The Rough Riders: An Autobiography”, p.461, Library of America

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• A man must know when to retreat from a woman, but a wise man knows that sometimes he must stand and face her.

  Robert Jordan

  Men, Faces, Retreat

  Robert Jordan (2010). “Lord of Chaos: Book Six of 'The Wheel of Time'”, p.265, Macmillan

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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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• 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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• The wise man contents himself with what he has, until such time as he invents something better.

  Jose Saramago

  Men, Contentment, Something Better

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• You never stop being a parent, Adam, no matter how old or wise your child becomes you'll see.

  Robert Charles Wilson

  Children, Parent, Matter

  Robert Charles Wilson (2009). “Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America”, p.593, Macmillan

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• When a people, having become free, establish wise laws, their revolution is complete.

  Louis Antoine de Saint-Just

  Law, People, Revolution

  Louis Antoine de Saint-Just's remarks on autumn 1792, as quoted in "Oeuvres Completes de Saint-Just", Volume 1, edited by Charles Vellay (p. 264), 1908.

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