Wise Quotes - Page 19

• The first steps toward stewardship are awareness, appreciation, and the
  selfish desire to have the things around for our kids to see. Presumably the
  unselfish motives will follow as we wise up.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Appreciation, Selfish, Kids

  Barbara Kingsolver (2011). “Small Wonder”, p.82, Faber & Faber

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• To find that place between what I want and what I think is wise.

  Veronica Roth

  Thinking, Want

  Veronica Roth (2015). “Allegiant Collector's Edition”, p.19, HarperCollins

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• A large number of deaf, crippled and blind people are afflicted solely through the malice of the demon. And one must in no wise doubt that plagues, fevers and every sort of evil come from him.

  Martin Luther

  Religious, Humor, Numbers

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• If the Wise be the happy man... he must be virtuous too; for, without virtue, happiness cannot be. This then is the true scope of all academical emulation.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Men, Emulation, Virtue

  Thomas Jefferson (1855). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson”, p.532

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• Oppression makes a wise man mad.

  Frederick Douglass

  Men, Mad, Oppression

  What to the Slave is the 4th of July?, delivered 4 July 1852

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• If a man is wise, he gets rich an' if he gets rich, he gets foolish, or his wife does. That's what keeps the money movin' around.

  Finley Peter Dunne

  Money, Men, Wife

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• He was a wise man who originated the idea of God.

  Euripides

  Men, Ideas, Superstitions

  "Sisyphus". Play by Euripides, 415 BCE.

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• 'Without the help of mathematics,' the wise man continued, 'the art could not advance and all the sciences would perish.'

  Julio Cesar de Mello e Souza

  Art, Men, Helping

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• To me, as a musician, there aren't any boundaries genre-wise as far as what can you listen to to inspire you.

  John Legend

  Inspire, Musician, Boundaries

  "R&B Artist John Legend: 'Once Again'". "News & Notes" with Farai Chideya, www.npr.org. November 20, 2006.

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• I'm a business first and foremost so whatever my business is, it's separate from my personal. It's like whatever I do business wise, it's done in the business fashion whether it's promoting , marketing, whatever I'm doing.

  Snoop Dogg

  Fashion, Marketing, Done

  Interview with Ashahed M. Muhammad, www.finalcall.com. August 13, 2010.

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• There's no greater sign of being a poor philosopher and wise man than wanting all of life to be wise and philosophical.

  Giacomo Leopardi

  Philosophical, Men, Philosopher

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• Men have been wise in many different modes; but they have always laughed the same way.

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Different, Way

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• A sad, wise valor is the brave complexion.

  George Herbert

  Brave, Valor, Complexion

  George Herbert (1842). “The Temple: And the Country Parson”, p.81

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• To be wise was to be above joy and sorrow, fear and pity, ambition and humiliation. It was to hate nothing and to love nothing, and above all to be utterly indifferent to the love and hate of others.

  Michael Ende

  Hate, Ambition, Joy

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• I'm not strong-willed enough or unkind enough... or maybe simply not wise enough to tell a journalist that a subject is out of bounds.

  James Nesbitt

  Strong, Enough, Journalist

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• A surgeon is surrounded by people who are sick, discouraged, afraid, embittered, dying - but also courageous, loving, wise, compassionate and alive.

  Bernie Siegel

  People, Sick, Dying

  Bernie Siegel (2013). “Prescriptions For Living: Inspirational Lessons for a Joyful, Loving Life”, p.15, Random House

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• Attentive listening to others is important regardless of their stations and positions. Wise people consider the deep meaning and true values of all suggestions. Learning and teaching are exchanged joyfully through deep listening and mutual appreciation.

  Chungliang Al Huang

  Appreciation, Teaching, Listening To Others

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• Live long, my friend, be wise and strong. But do not from any man his song.

  Ruskin Bond

  Song, Strong, Men

  Ruskin Bond (1991). “Our Trees Still Grow in Dehra”, p.47, Penguin Books India

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• A wise, joyous bookit unfolds the knowledge and the beauty of the two lives it embraces-old wisdom and young discover, intertwining like vines.

  Rex Reed

  Two, Vines, Embrace

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• Wisdom: It's something that you know when you see it. You can recognize it, you can experience it. I have defined wisdom as the capacity to make judgments that when looked back upon will seem to have been wise.

  Jonas Salk

  Judgment, Capacity, Biodiversity

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• The wise man must be wise before, not after, the event.

  Epicharmus of Kos

  Wisdom, Men, Events

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• You were wise not to waste years in a lawsuit ... he who commences a suit resembles him who plants a palm-tree which he will not live to see flourish.

  Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

  Years, Law, Tree

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• It was the saying of a great man, that if we could trace our descents, we should find all slaves to come from princes, and all princes from slaves; and fortune has turned all things topsy-turvy in a long series of revolutions; beside, for a man to spend his life in pursuit of a title, that serves only when he dies to furnish out an epitaph, is below a wise man's business.

  Seneca the Younger

  Men, Long, Titles

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• Man pays deference to woman instinctively, involuntarily, not because she is beautiful or truthful or wise or foolish or proper, but because she is a woman, and he cannot help it. If she descends, he will lower to her level; if she rises, he will rise to her height.

  Mary Abigail Dodge

  Beautiful, Women, Levels

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• To the disgrace of men it is seen that there are women both more wise to judge what evil is expected, and more constant to bear it when it happens.

  Philip Sidney

  Men, Evil, Judging

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”

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