Wise Quotes - Page 25

• The man who walks with wise men becomes wise himself.

  Solomon

  Men, He Man, Walks

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• No [movie is really worth watching] which does not either impart valuable knowledge; or set before us some ideal of beauty, strength, or nobility of character. There are enough [great movies] to occupy us during all our short and busy years. If we are wise, we will resolutely avoid all but the richest and the best.

  J.R. Miller

  Character, Years, Doe

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• A God wise enough to create me and the world I live in is wise enough to watch out for me.

  Philip Yancey

  Watches, World, Enough

  Philip Yancey (1997). “Where Is God When It Hurts?”, p.115, Zondervan

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• You can be very wild and still be very wise

  Yoko Ono

  Very Wise, Stills

  "Yoko Ono: What I've Learned" By Tom Junod, www.esquire.com. December 8, 2010.

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• Any group has a sense of who it is and what is values, but this sense often remains beneath the surface. A wise leader can discern these unspoken beliefs and articulate them.

  Diane Dreher

  Leader, Groups, Belief

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• Do you think of yourself as a creative personality? If you do, you are both fortunate and correct, in fact the beautiful truth is that everyone is creative and we all have the ability to develop our creative potential. It is wise to remember that the person who follows the crowd will get no further than the crowd. The person who walks the creative path is likely to find they are in places no one has ever been before.

  Bob Proctor

  Beautiful, Thinking, Personality

  FaceBook post by Bob Proctor from Dec 02, 2011

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• A wise person once wrote, “Resentment is like drinking poison and hoping the other person would die.” But the only one dying is ourselves.

  Debbie Ford

  Drinking, Dying, Poison

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• When I think of all the books I have read, and of the wise words I have heard spoken, and of the anxiety I have given to parents and grandparents, and of the hopes that I have had, all life weighed in the scales of my own life seems to me a preparation for something that never happens.

  William Butler Yeats

  Book, Thinking, Grandparent

  William Butler Yeats (2010). “The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol. III: Autobiogra”, p.108, Simon and Schuster

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  Knowledge talks, wisdom listens.

  Jimi Hendrix

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• Making art is a journey.

  Meinrad Craighead

  Art, Journey, Art Is

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• Those alone are wise who know how to love.

  Seneca the Younger

  Love, Know How, Knows

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• It's the same struggle for each of us, and the same path out: the utterly simple, infinitely wise, ultimately defiant act of loving one thing and then another, loving our way back to life.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Love, Struggle, Simple

  Barbara Kingsolver (2011). “Small Wonder”, p.25, Faber & Faber

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• All things are filled full of signs, and it is a wise man who can learn about one thing from another.

  Plotinus

  Men, Purpose, Filled

  Plotinus, Arthur Hilary Armstrong (1962). “Plotinus: Selections from His Major Writings”

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• Good to be merie and wise.

  John Heywood

  John Heywood, Julian Sharman (1972). “The Proverbs of John Heywood: Being the "Proverbes" of that Author Printed 1546”

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• God belongs to all free beings. He is the life of all, the salvation of all ~faithful and unfaithful, just and unjust, pious and impious, passionate and dispassionate, monks and laymen, wise and simple, healthy and sick, young and old just as the effusion of light, the sight of the sun, and the changes of the seasons are for all alike; 'for there is no respect of persons with God.'

  John Climacus

  Christian, Simple, Light

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• ... you must hasten to oppose pernicious pride of mind, before it penetrates into the marrow of your bones. Resist it, curb the quickness of your mind and humbly subject your opinion to the opinions of others. Be a fool for the love of God, if you wish to be wiser than Solomon: 'If any man among you seem to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise' (I Cor. 3:18).

  Lorenzo Scupoli

  Christian, Pride, Men

  Lorenzo Scupoli (1978). “Unseen Warfare: The Spiritual Combat and Path to Paradise of Lorenzo Scupoli”, p.94, St Vladimir's Seminary Press

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• The wise traveler learns not to repeat successes but tries new places all the time.

  Paul Fussell

  Travel, Trying, Around The World

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• He shall despise none, but hear the opinions of all. A wise man shall make use of even a child's sensible utterance.

  Chanakya

  Children, Men, Use

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• Music wasn't made to make us wise, but better natured.

  Josh Billings

  Made

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• If you are wise, live as you can; if you cannot, live as you would.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Ifs

  Baltasar Gracian, Baltasar Gracián y Morales (2004). “The Art of Worldly Wisdom”, p.68, Shambhala Publications

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• A still tongue keeps a wise head.

  Barbara Ann Kipfer

  Tongue, Stills

  Barbara Ann Kipfer (2009). “863 Buddhist Ways to Conquer Life's Little Challenges”, p.148, Ulysses Press

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• He is truly wise who gains wisdom from another's mishap.

  Publilius Syrus

  Gains, Mishaps

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• Mary Kay was the wholesome personification of the American dream. For women everywhere, she brought the impossible dream to life by making it a reality. She was a very wise lady. She was a people person. She was very sensitive to the importance of recognizing people.

  Zig Ziglar

  Dream, Reality, People

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• Pun: A form of wit, to which wise men stoop and fools aspire

  Ambrose Bierce

  Men, Fool, Form

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• How terrible is wisdom, when it brings no profit to the man that's wise

  Sophocles

  Men, Oedipus, He Man

  Sophocles (2013). “Sophocles I: Antigone, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus”, p.85, University of Chicago Press

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