wise quotes

“You can't fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.”

— William Seward Burroughs

“You can never plan the future by the past.”

— Edmund Burke

“Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.”

— Thomas Jefferson

“A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.”

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.”

“He who would begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin. ”

“Begin, be bold and venture to be wise. ”

“Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.”

— Clive Staples Lewis

“You live and learn. At any rate, you live.”

— Douglas Adams

“If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live.”

“Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.”

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Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.
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“A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men. ”

“He was a wise man who invented beer.”

“Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. ”

“Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.”

“We ought to fly away from earth to heaven as quickly as we can; and to fly away is to become like God, as far as this is possible; and to become like him is to become holy, just, and wise.”

“The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.”

“Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.”

“The wisest have the most authority.”

“The wise man reads both books and life itself.”

“Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before... He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.”

“When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.”

“Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.”

“Ten thousand fools proclaim themselves into obscurity, while one wise man forgets himself into immortality.”

— Martin Luther King

“The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.”

“The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life - knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.”

“He who knows others is wise
He who know himself is enlightened.”

“A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses.”

— Hippocrates

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