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• A dull head thinks of no better way to show himself wise, than by suspecting everything in his way.

  Philip Sidney

  Thinking, Dull, Way

  Sir Philip Sidney, James Hain Friswell (1867). “The Countess of Pembrokes' Arcadia ... With Notes and Introductory Essay by Hain Friswell, Etc”, p.126

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• Always win fools first. They talk much, and what they have once uttered they will stick to; whereas there is always time, up to the last moment, to bring before a wise man arguments that may entirely change his opinion.

  Arthur Helps

  Winning, Men, Sticks

  Sir Arthur Helps (1871). “Brevia: Short Essays and Aphorisms”, p.114

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• Love is about feeling that there is something bigger than just ourselves and our own worries and existence. Whether it is love of another person, of country, of God, of an idea, love is fundamentally an intense devotion to this notion that something is bigger than us. Love is ultimately larger than friendship, comfort, ceremony, knowledge, or joy. Indeed, as the Four Wise Ones once said, it may be all you need.

  Daniel Levitin

  Country, Love Is, Ideas

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• If the advice of a fool for once happens to be good, it requires a wise man to carry it out.

  Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

  Men, Advice, Fool

  Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1868). “Nathan the Wise: A Dramatic Poem”, p.230

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• The wise healer endures the pain. Cry. Tears bring joy.

  Erykah Badu

  Pain, Joy, Tears

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• We do not believe any group of men adequate enough or wise enough to operate without scrutiny or without criticism.

  J. Robert Oppenheimer

  Believe, Power, Men

  "Encouragement of Science". J. Robert Oppenheimer's address at Science Talent Institute (March 6, 1950), as quoted in "Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists", Volume 7, No. 1 (pp. 6-8), January 1951.

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• It would be a good thing if young people were wise and old people were strong, but God has arranged things better.

  Martin Luther

  Strong, People, Would Be

  Martin Luther (1967). “Table Talk”

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• The wise man knows of all things, as far as possible, although he has no knowledge of each of them in detail

  Aristotle

  Men, Details, All Things

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• He who is not sage and wise, humane and just, cannot use secret agent.s. And he who is not delicate and subtle cannot get the truth out of them.

  Sun Tzu

  Secret, Use, Sage

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• The Lord hath created medicines out of the earth, and he that is wise will not abhor them.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Ayurveda, Medicine, Earth

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• It is not wise, or even possible, to divorce private behavior from public leadership.... By its very nature, true leadership carries with it the burden of being an example.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Divorce, Example, Behavior

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• A prince who is not himself wise cannot be wisely advised. . . . Good advice depends on the shrewdness of the prince who seeks it, and not the shrewdness of the prince on good advice.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Advice, Shrewdness, Depends

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• [Heraclitus] did not require humans or their sort of knowledge, since everything into which one may inquire he despises [as being] in contrast [to his own] inward-turning wisdom. [To him] all learning from others is a sign of nonwisdom, because the wise man focuses his vision on his own intelligence.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Vision, Inward

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• All I have learned in life really just boils down to this: there is only one difference between the so-called wise and the so-called foolish...and between those who are truly happy and those who are not. Those who are wise - and those who are happy - embrace and appreciate life. Those who are unhappy and unwise do not. That is all; that is the only difference.

  Rasheed Ogunlaru

  Differences, Appreciate, Unhappy

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• When you visit countries that don't nurture these kinds of ambitions, you can feel th absence of hope...people are reduced to worrying only about that day's shelter or the next day's meal. It's a shame, even a tragedy, how many people do not get to think about the future. Technology coupled with wise leadership not only solves these problems but enables dreams of tomorow.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Country, Dream, Ambition

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• Wine turns the wise man into a fool and the fool into a wise man.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Wine, Men, Fool

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2009). “The Shadow Of The Wind”, p.254, Hachette UK

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• Nonsense! The most hopelessly stupid man is he who is not aware that he is wise.

  Isaac Asimov

  Stupid, Men, Stupid Men

  "Second Foundation".

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• For to be wise and love exceeds man's might.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Wisdom, Men

  'Troilus And Cressida' (1602) act 3, sc. 2, l. [163]

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• And I shall find some girl perhaps, and a better one than you, With eyes as wise, but kindlier, and lips as soft, but true, and I dare say she will do.

  Rupert Brooke

  Love, Break Up, Broken Heart

  Rupert Brooke (2010). “Collected Poems”, p.103, The Oleander Press

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• For many, negative thinking is a habit, which over time, becomes an addiction... A lot of people suffer from this disease because negative thinking is addictive to each of the Big Three - the mind, the body, and the emotions. If one doesn't get you, the others are waiting in the wings.

  Peter McWilliams

  Wisdom, Thinking, Wings

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Make men wise, and by that very operation you make them free. Civil liberty follows as a consequence of this; no usurped power can stand against the artillery of opinion.

  William Godwin

  Wisdom, Men, Liberty

  William Godwin (1796). “Enquiry Concerning Political Justice, and Its Influence on Morals and Happiness”, p.261

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• The wise stand out because they see themselves as part of the Whole. They shine because they don't want to impress. They achieve great things because they don't look for recognition. Their wisdom is contained in what they are, not their opinions. They refuse to argue, so no-one argues with them.

  Laozi

  Relationship, Spiritual, Wisdom

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• A cultivated man, wise to know and bold to perform, is the end to which nature works.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Ends, Mankind

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.343

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• And while it has not pleased the Almighty to bless us with a return of peace, we can but press on, guided by the best light He gives, trusting that in His own good time, and wise way, all will yet be well.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Religious, Light, Giving

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.518, Wildside Press LLC

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• No gown worse becomes a woman than the desire to be wise.

  Martin Luther

  Desire, Gowns, Christian Women

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