Wise Quotes - Page 26

• It is safe to look within. As I move through the layers of other people's opinions and beliefs, I see within myself a magnificent being, wise and beautiful. I love what I see in me.

  Louise Hay

  Beautiful, Moving, People

  FaceBook post by Louise Hay from Sep 23, 2009

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• I would rather a thousand times be five minutes at the feet of Christ than listen a lifetime to all the wise men in the world.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Men, Feet, World

  Dwight L Moody (1897). “God's Good News”, p.79, Moody Publishers

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• To be brave in misfortune is to be worthy of manhood; to be wise in misfortune is to conquer fate.

  Agnes Repplier

  Fate, Brave, Conquer

  Agnes Repplier (1924). “Under dispute”

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• Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.

  Rumi

  Today, Changing Myself

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• Enough experience will make you wise.

  James R Cook

  Enough

  James R. Cook (1987). “The start-up entrepreneur: how you can succeed in building your own company into a major enterprise starting from scratch”, Harpercollins

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• An ignorant person is inclined to blame others for his own misfortune. To blame oneself is proof of progress. But the wise man never has to blame another or himself.

  Epictetus

  Men, Ignorant, Progress

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• After I had my son I looked everywhere for a book that might serve as some kind of mirror. I bought so many silly books. Now I see what the problem was: I wanted a book about time-about mortality. I can't think of a writer who is at once so experimentally daring and so rigorously uncompromising as Sarah Manguso. Ongoingness is an incredibly elegant, wise book, and I loved it.

  Miranda July

  Silly, Book, Son

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• The wise use of your freedom to make your own decisions is crucial to your spiritual growth, now and for eternity. You are never too young to learn, never too old to change. Your yearnings to learn and change come from a divinely instilled striving for eternal progression. Each day brings opportunity for decisions for eternity.

  Russell M. Nelson

  Spiritual, Opportunity, Decision

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• There is something which unites magic and applied science (technology) while separating them from the "wisdom" of earlier ages. For the wise men of old, the cardinal problem of human life was how to conform the soul to objective reality, and the solution was wisdom, self-discipline , and virtue. For the modern, the cardinal problem is how to conform reality to the wishes of man, and the solution is a technique.

  C. S. Lewis

  Reality, Men, Technology

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• The gate is small because truth guards the entrance. The way is narrow because the Lord protects us with wise boundaries.

  Charles Stanley

  Way, Boundaries, Lord

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• As a wise man once said, 'If not us, then who; if not now, then when?'

  Michael Jackson

  Men, Said, Ifs

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• Faeries are not fantasy, but a connection to reality. Faeries are irrational, poetic, absurd, and very, very wise. Faeries say there is nonsense in dogma, and sense in nonsense. Faeries express themselves with high seriousness and low humour. Faeries are resistant to all definitions.

  Brian Froud

  Reality, Connections, Definitions

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• Floyd Skloot’s Revertigo is a beautifully-written, moving account of one man’s off kilter life. Who would have imaged a memoir exploring months of extreme vertigo and decades of neurological turbulence would be filled with so much joy and optimism? This gentle, wise, and perceptive memoir never fails to surprise.

  Dinty W. Moore

  Moving, Men, Optimism

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• Also, I learned whether you are gay, bisexual, it doesn't matter, you know... because, at the end of the day, they're both gross. But mostly, I learned that elderly black women are wise beyond their years... but younger black women are prostitutes.

  Sarah Silverman

  Gay, Bisexual, Elderly

  "The Sarah Silverman Program", February 1, 2007 - April 15, 2010.

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• I was fortunate in the last century to be in the two biggest hits film-wise, "Godfather I" and "Godfather II," and "Lonesome Dove".

  Robert Duvall

  Two, Lonesome Dove, Lasts

  "Robert Duvall Shines in the No Spin Zone". "The O'Reilly Factor", www.foxnews.com. June 23, 2006.

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• My dad is such a good man. You know how when you are a child you think your dad is invincible? Well, I still think that - he is so wise and everything I do I ask my dad's advice about first.

  Leona Lewis

  Children, Dad, Men

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

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• I think the hardest thing to do in the world, show-business-wise, is write comedy.

  Carol Burnett

  Writing, Thinking, World

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

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• Where have all the good men gone, and where are all the gods? Where's the street-wise Hercules, to fight the rising odds?

  Bonnie Tyler

  Fighting, Men, Odds

  Song: Holding Out for a Hero, 1986

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• [The seers call him wise] whose every attempt is free, without any desire for gain, without any selfishness.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Desire, Selfishness, Gains

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.432, Manonmani Publishers

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• This of course is the way to talk to dragons, if you don't want to reveal your proper name which is wise, and don't want to infuriate them by a flat refusal which is also very wise. No dragon can resist the fascination of riddling talk and of wasting time to trying to understand it.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Dragons, Names, Trying

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.119, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• He bids fair to grow wise who has discovered that he is not so.

  Publilius Syrus

  Discovery, Grows, Fairs

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• In science, the old men are usually wrong. But in politics, the old men are wise, counsel caution, and in the end are often right.

  Michael Crichton

  Science, Men, Ends

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• The dead keep their secrets, and in a while we shall be as wise as they - and as taciturn.

  Alexander Smith

  Keeping Secrets, Secret, Taciturn

  Alexander Smith (1863). “Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.65

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• Where two discourse, if the anger of one rises, he is the wise man who lets the contest fall.

  Plutarch

  Fall, Men, Two

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• The first duty of a wise advocate is to convince his opponents that he understands their arguments, and sympathies with their just feelings.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Feelings, Opponents, Firsts

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