Wise Quotes - Page 39

• Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking.

  Horace

  Writing, Thinking, Fountainhead

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• Statistics is a science which ought to be honourable, the basis of many most important sciences; but it is not to be carried on by steam, this science, any more than others are; a wise head is requisite for carrying it on.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Science, Important, Statistics

  Critical and Miscellaneous Essays Chartism, II

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• A wise man in China asked his gardener to plant a shrub. The gardener objected that it only flowered once in a hundred years. "In that case," said the wise man, "plant it immediately." [On the importance of fundamental research.]

  John Charles Polanyi

  Wisdom, Science, Men

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• The ego is entranced by ... names and ideas... However names and concepts only block your perception of this Great Oneness. Therefore it is wise to ignore them. Those who live inside their egos are continually bewildered.

  Laozi

  Block, Names, Ideas

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• During times like these, the wise are influential.

  Joni Mitchell

  Times Like These, Politics, Influential

  Malka Marom, Joni Mitchell (2014). “Joni Mitchell: Both Sides Now”, p.249, Omnibus Press

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• See the judge upon the bench who tries the case as best he can, see the wise and wicked ones who feed upon life's sacred fire, see the soldier with his gun who must be dead to be admired.

  Gordon Lightfoot

  Gun, Fire, Judging

  Song: Don Quixote, 1975

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• The peculiar circumstances of the moment may render a measure more or less wise, but cannot render it more or less constitutional.

  John Marshall

  Peculiar, May, Constitution

  John Marshall (1974). “The Papers of John Marshall: Correspondence, papers, and selected judicial opinions, March 1814-December 1819”, The University of North Carolina Press

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• If we walk with the wise, we will grow wise.

  Steven Curtis Chapman

  Adages, Walks, Grows

  Song: Walk With The Wise, Album: The Great Adventure

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  Timeless is the creature who is wise. And timeless is the prisoner in disguise.

  Stevie Nicks

  Timeless, Adages, Prisoner

  Song: Beauty And The Beast, Album: The Soundstage Sessions

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• Wise is the tongue, wet of perfect thought.

  Black Francis

  Perfect, Tongue, Adages

  Song: Speedy Marie, Album: Teenager of the Year, 1994

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• Wise men listen and laugh, while fools talk.

  Curtis Jackson

  Men, Laughing, Fool

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• Don't blow your tomorrows, don't throw away your love. You've got to be wise as a serpent, harmless as a dove.

  Gerry Rafferty

  Love You, Blow, Advice

  Song: As Wise As A Serpent

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• His eyes drifted leisurely back up to my face and he smiled at me appreciatively, "Kelsey, when a man spends time with a beautiful woman, he needs to pace himself. I quirked my eyebrow at him and laughed. "Yeah, I'm a regular marathon alright." He kissed my fingers. "Exactly. A wise man never sprints...in a marathon.

  Colleen Houck

  Beautiful, Eye, Men

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• I think guitar-wise, Eric Clapton was a big influence on me. I got to spend time around him. He's kind of strange, mysterious, serious and he always has played such hot guitar.

  Dhani Harrison

  Thinking, Guitar, Serious

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

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• I spend a lot of time in L.A., and I think it would probably be easier if I lived there work wise, but there's no city like London, there is so much going on. I can jump on the Tube and be anywhere in 20 minutes, and all my friends and family are here and I'm not prepared to give that up.

  Jeremy Irvine

  Thinking, Cities, Giving

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• My publishers are wonderful because they have let me write what I wanted to. They're wise enough to know that, with any author who's not simply writing formulas - who's trying to create something new - pressuring them to do something for market purposes almost always backfires. I can't imagine working under those circumstances, actually.

  Elizabeth Kostova

  Writing, Trying, Purpose

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• The beasts are very wise,
  Their mouths are clean of lies,
  They talk one to the other,
  Bullock to bullock brothers
  Resting after their labors,
  Each in stall with his neighbors,
  But man with goad and whip,
  Breaks up their fellowship,
  Shouts in their silky ears
  Filling their soul with fears.
  When he has plowed the land,
  He says: "they understand."
  But the beasts in stall together,
  Freed from the yoke and tether,
  Say as the torn flank smoke:
  "Nay, 'twas the whip that spoke."

  Rudyard Kipling

  Brother, Lying, Men

  Rudyard Kipling (1989). “Complete verse”, Anchor Books

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• The cure of many diseases is unknown to physicians because they are ignorant of the whole... For the part can never be well unless the whole is well.

  Plato

  Wisdom, Clever, Healing

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• Like your body your mind also gets tired so refresh it by wise sayings.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Tired, Mind, Body

  "'Nahj al-Balagha' ('The Peak of Eloquence')". Book by Ali, translated by Askari Jafri,

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• I said that I loved the wise proverb, Brief, simple and deep; For it I'd exchange the great poem That sends us to sleep.

  Bryan Procter

  Sleep, Simple, Said

  Bryan Waller Procter (1857). “Dramatic Scenes ; with Other Poems Now First Printed”, p.269

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• A mind that wants to wander around a corner is an un-wise mind. Now, is, be here now.

  George Harrison

  Philosophy, Mind, Want

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• Have I been wrong? Have I been wise to shut my eyes?

  Natalie Merchant

  Philosophy, Eye

  Song: Carnival

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• Leaves are light, and useless, and idle, and wavering, and changeable; they even dance; and yet God in his wisdom has made them a part of oaks. And in so doing he has given us a lesson, not to deny the stout-heartedness within because we see the lightsomeness without.

  Augustus William Hare

  Light, Useless, Lessons

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• What you are comes from the blood of those who set you on this journey. That is likewise unchangeable. What you see in the reflecting pool of truth is who you are. You cannot change that, so it is wise not to curse it. The wiser choice is to embrace it and make it your strength.

  Joseph M. Marshall III

  Acceptance, Journey, Blood

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• It's just a logical guess that they are very very wise to put someone from the old series in it, and if you had to choose, it would be a very difficult decision.

  Andreas Katsulas

  Decision, Would Be, Logical

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