Top 100 A Wise Sayings

#1. I'm a wise Latina woman. Whatever, man. Thank God I'm not in politics, because the fact that you have to explain everything - I'd kill myself. I can't take all those little things they dissect. I'm like, 'Oh my God, get a life.' I don't have time for this.

Justina Machado

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#2. Until the day when a wise black man can become our ambassador in Paris, we will forever be a pre-Brazil.

Nelson Rodrigues

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#3. The best fights are the ones you don't have, a wise man once said to me.

Lee Child

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#4. A fool despises good counsel, but a wise man takes it to heart.

Confucius

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#5. The words of a wise man's mouth are gracious; but the lips of a fool will swallow up himself.

Doris Lessing

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#6. It is a wise father who knows his own child.

William Shakespeare

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#7. The great Tibetan meditator Gungtang Jampelyang once asked
'What is the difference between a wise man and a fool?'
The difference lies in their intention. A wise person is someone who has a good intention, not someone who merely possesses knowledge.

Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

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#8. Even more than the time when she gave birth, a mother feels her greatest joy when she hears others refer to her son as a wise learned one.

Thiruvalluvar

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#9. A wise politician will never grudge a genuflexion or a rapture if it is expected of him by prevalent opinion.

Frederick Scott Oliver

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#10. A wise man once said NOTHING ... He just let her vent, nodded his head and live happily ever after!

Tanya Masse

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#11. Truth is always wilder than fiction. Hold on to your hats and enjoy this page turning
look inside the world of sports betting from a good girl gone bad for love.
Laura Atchison, Author of What Would A Wise Woman Do?

Laura Atchison

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#12. In our reasonings concerning matter of fact, there are all imaginable degrees of assurance, from the highest certainty to the lowest species of moral evidence. A wise man, therefore, proportions his belief to the evidence.

David Hume

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#13. Now this relaxation of the mind from work consists on playful words or deeds. Therefore it becomes a wise and virtuous man to have recourse to such things at times.

Thomas Aquinas

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#14. A wise man will not communicate his differing thoughts to unprepared minds, or in a disorderly manner.

Benjamin Whichcote

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#15. The conduct of a wise politician is ever suited to the present posture of affairs. Often by foregoing a part he saves the whole, and by yielding in a small matter secures a greater.

Plutarch

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#16. Every man whose character traits all lie in the mean is called a wise man.

Maimonides

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#17. He was a wise man who invented beer.

Plato

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#18. If you want to make an ordinary man happy, or think that he is happy, give him money, power, flattery, gifts, honours. If you want to make a wise man happy - improve yourself!

Idries Shah

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#19. A wise man once said that any human being is capable of infinite achievement, so long as it's not the work they're supposed to be doing.

K.J. Parker

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#20. A wise person is wise because he trusts his own being.

Debasish Mridha

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#21. A prudent person profits from personal experience, a wise one from the experience of others.

Joseph Collins

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#22. For if I claim to be a wise man, it surely means that I don't know."
Kansas

L.D. Jacobson

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#23. Maybe what we really need is to change our relationship to what is, to see who we are with the strength of a generous spirit & a wise heart.

Sharon Salzberg

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#24. A wise man is never less alone than when he is alone.

Jonathan Swift

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#25. You see, Marcus, some things have value yet have no price, and a wise man learns them and their worth. So do not let the standard of the marketplace be your guide. A man goes there for flour and greens, but not for virtue.

Paul Waters

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#26. A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.

Stendhal

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#27. A wise man told me don't argue with fools. Cause people from a distance can't tell who is who.

Jay-Z

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#28. A wise doctor does not mutter incantations over a sore that needs the knife.

Sophocles

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#29. Above all, I would not expect a wise race, at great expense, to set loose an army of self-replicating robots.

Barney Oliver

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#30. Consequently, the value and importance of the monarchic idea cannot reside in the person of the monarch himself except if Heaven decides to lay the crown on the brow of the heroic genius like Frederick the Great or a wise character like William I.

Adolf Hitler

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#31. 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

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#32. A wise mother is the unifying force between father and children; her seed of love produces a harvest of trust.

Jaachynma N.E. Agu

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#33. I am quite a wise old bird, but I am no desert hermit who can only prophesy when his guts are knotted with hunger. I am deep in the old man's puzzle, trying to link the wisdom of the body with the wisdom of the spirit until the two are one.

Robertson Davies

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#34. Sometimes we need a wise guide to peel back the ceiling of our lives to remind us that infinity never places any limits on our skies.

Curtis Tyrone Jones

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#35. A wise nation preserves its records, gathers
up its monuments, decorates the tombes of its illustrious dead, repairs its
greatest structures and fosters national pride and love of country, by perpetual
references to the sacrifices and glories of the past.

Joseph Howe

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#36. All places that the eye of heaven visits/ Are to a wise man ports and happy havens:/ Think not the king did banish thee:/ But thou the king.
Richard II

James Fenimore Cooper

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#37. A wise man will be master of his mind, a fool will be its slave.

Publilius Syrus

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#38. For love, as he knew it, was an aberration, a form of temporary insanity, a shortlived state of autosuggestion.
Love was a state which a wise man would prudently avoid.

Robert Sheckley

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#39. A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men.

Saadi

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#40. The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man.

Euripides

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#41. Logic is a large drawer, containing some useful instruments, and many more that are superfluous. A wise man will look into it for two purposes, to avail himself of those instruments that are really useful, and to admire the ingenuity with which those that are not so, are assorted and arranged.

Charles Caleb Colton

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#42. In a wise community a wise man would not seem foolish!

Bertrand Russell

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#43. I knew a wise man that had it for a by-word, when he saw men hasten to a conclusion, "Stay a little, that we may make an end the sooner."

Francis Bacon

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#44. Great wine requires a mad man to grow the vine, a wise man to watch over it, a lucid poet to make it, and a lover to drink it.

Salvador Dali

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#45. Folly plots a fool's death from the moment they become friends. Wisdom bestows blessings upon a wise man from the moment they wed.

Matshona Dhliwayo

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#46. 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

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#47. A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

John Churton Collins

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#48. Philip Martin has written a wise, compassionate, and nurturing guide through the self-oppression of depression.

Harold H. Bloomfield

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#49. A wise person can never be truly poor;
a foolish person can never be truly rich.

Matshona Dhliwayo

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#50. I will be glad to discuss this proposition with my attorney, and that after I talk with one, we could either discuss it with him or discuss it with my attorney, if the attorney thinks it is a wise thing to do, but at the present time I have nothing more to say to you.

Lee Harvey Oswald

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#51. A wise man can and should stand above his times, not so the poet, but he should be their apex.

Franz Grillparzer

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#52. A wise woman knows how to summon her courage and do what is right, rather than what is easy.

Suze Orman

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#53. A wise man can play the part of a clown, but a clown can't play the part of a wise man.

Malcolm X

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#54. I did learn a great deal about my husband but I also learned something about myself: I made a wise choice. I think he's a good man.

Cindy McCain

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#55. In common discourse we denominate persons and things according to the major part of their character; he is to be called a wise man who has but few follies.

Isaac Watts

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#56. The way to fight a woman is with your hat. Grab it and run.
The guy who said that was a wise man. He knew what most men don't - Women are powerful creatures who should be handled with care, or they can become very, very dangerous.

Christina Dodd

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#57. If Jesus is the Son of God, his teachings are more than just good ideas from a wise teacher; they are divine insights on which I can confidently build my life.

Lee Strobel

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#58. I once heard a wise man say there are no perfect men. Only perfect intentions.

Morgan Freeman

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#59. A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune, and favor cannot satisfy him.

Jean De La Bruyere

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#60. 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

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#61. My father, a wise and grave man, gave me serious and excellent counsel against what he foresaw was my design.

Daniel Defoe

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#62. A wise person can want nothing better from life than to pay back the wrong that has been done him.

Jean-Paul Sartre

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#63. For a wise man, I have been told, once said, 'Gratitude is best and most effective when it does not evaporate in empty phrases.' But alas, my lady, I am but a mass of empty phrases, it would seem.

Isaac Asimov

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#64. A good book is a lighthouse; a wise man is a lighthouse; conscience is a lighthouse; compassion is a lighthouse; science is a lighthouse! They all show us the true path! Keep them in your life to remain safe in the rocky and dark waters of life!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

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#65. A wise man covers his ass. An even wiser man leaves his pants on,

Ashwin Sanghi

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#66. A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests.

Niccolo Machiavelli

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#67. Confidence gives a fool the advantage over a wise man.

William Hazlitt

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#68. And it was the part of a wise man to forget inevitable calamities of human life in the enjoyment of the fleeting hour.

Edward Gibbon

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#69. A big 'thank you' to George Demetrion for helping readers see that the center does hold. A wise and winsome work.

Gabriel Fackre

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#70. A wise word is more rare than the green emerald, and one can find the word of wisdom even amongst the slave girls making grain.

Barbara De Angelis

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#71. Sotomayor's vainglorious lecture bromide about herself as 'a wise Latina' trumping white men is a vulgar embarrassment - a vestige of the bad old days of male-bashing feminism.

Camille Paglia

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#72. A wise man doesn't start what he doesn't know to do.

Eraldo Banovac

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#73. A wise man feareth, and departeth from evil: but the fool rageth, and is confident.

Anonymous

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#74. What a wise man knows, therefore, is how to construct a pattern that, given the human situation, is likely to lead to a good life.

H.W. Charles

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#75. Ghurman was a wise Jinni who was more than three hundred years old, and had a long history with Humans.

Ibraheem Abbas

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#76. A wise man always has something to say, whereas a fool always needs to say something.

Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib A.S

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#77. A wise man once remarked that we can count how many seeds are in the apple, but not how many apples are in the seed.

Wendy Mass

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#78. Life is full of surprises, a wise man said, and would not be worth having if it were not.

Richard Ford

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#79. Proverbs 12:15 says, "The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, but a wise man listens to advice." The

Matt Chandler

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#80. A wise beautiful lake never desires to be famous, because fame dirty it! To remain pure, distance yourself from the reputation!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

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#81. We ought to observe that practice which is the hardest of all-especially for young physicians-we ought to throw in no medicine at all-to abstain-to observe a wise and masterly inactivity.

John Randolph Of Roanoke

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#82. Ragan gave him a guarded look that said he agreed with every word but strongly doubted Uno's wisdom in voicing them. Ragan, it seemed, had the makings of a wise man in him.

Robert Jordan

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#83. I remeber asking a wise man, once ... 'Why do Men fear the dark?' ... 'Because darkness' he told me, 'is ignorance made visable.' 'And do Men despise ignorance?' I asked. 'No,' he said, 'they prize it above all things
all things!
but only so long as it remains invisible.

R. Scott Bakker

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#84. You need a strong light for a tough journey? A light like the sun? Then you need a wise thinking!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

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#85. Money cannot buy you happiness, and happiness cannot buy you money. That might be a wise crack, but I doubt it.

Groucho Marx

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#86. Euripides was wont to say, silence was an answer to a wise man; but we seem to have greater occasion for it in our dealing with fools and unreasonable persons; for men of breeding and sense will be satisfied with reason and fair words.

Plutarch

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#87. A still tongue keeps a wise head.

Barbara Ann Kipfer

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#88. A wise man once said all children are born knowing what the angels look like

Daniel Gottlieb

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#89. There was never a wise saying that couldn't be made wiser by adding the words, and vice-versa.

Robert Breault

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#90. If it be true that a man is rich who wants nothing, a wise man is a very rich man.

Jean De La Bruyere

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#91. A wise God shrouds the future in obscure darkness.

Horace

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#92. There are many who think a wise prince ought, when he has the chance, to foment astutely some enmity, so that by suppressing it he will augment his greatness.

Niccolo Machiavelli

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#93. All knowledge is interesting to a wise man, and the knowledge of nature is interesting to all men.

Matthew Arnold

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#94. A wise woman knows when to stay silent. However, a wiser woman of faith knows that sometimes words can win the battle, when all odds stand against her.

Shannon L. Alder

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#95. It is said that a wise man rules over the stars, but this does not mean that he rules over the influences which come from the stars in the sky. It means that he rules over the powers which exist in his own constitution.

Paracelsus

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#96. A foolish man thinks he knows everything. A wise man knows he doesn't," Finn replied absently, still looking down at the book.
"That's such a fortune-cookie answer," I said with a laugh, and even he smirked at me.

Amanda Hocking

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#97. A wise man's question contains half the answer.

Solomon Ibn Gabirol

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#98. A wise soul once declared that the ultimate power of the writer is that he has the choice of whom he wants to be co-opted by.

David Brooks

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#99. I want to be a wise woman.

Lauren Hutton

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#100. He looked down at her. "Have you found that peace?"
Yes, she had. But it was so corny and cliched that she couldn't bring herself to admit it.
"A wise man once told me that peace has to come from within. We have to learn to like ourselves before we can find our place in the world.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

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