Quotes 301 till 320 of 409.
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The wise man who is not heeded is counted a fool, and the fool who proclaims the general folly first and loudest passes for a prophet and Führer, and sometimes it is luckily the other way round as well, or else mankind would long since have perished of stupidity.
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The wise man... if he would live at peace with others, he will bear and forbear.
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The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve.
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The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
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The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored.
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The word which gives the key to the national vice is waste. And people who are wasteful are not wise, neither can they remain young and vigorous. In order to transmute energy to higher and more subtle levels one must first conserve it.
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The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.
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There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.
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There are peaks and valleys in anything and that is especially true for the music business. It is very inconsistent. But if you are wise, you can let those downs really bring you to another level of your personality.
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There is in human nature generally more of the fool than of the wise.
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There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself; in no wise hath she need of an author.
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There is no one thoroughly despicable. We cannot descend much lower than an idiot; and an idiot has some advantages over a wise man.
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There often seems to be a playfulness to wise people, as if either their equanimity has as its source this playfulness or the playfulness flows from the equanimity; and they can persuade other people who are in a state of agitation to calm down and manage a smile.
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There was no division I could see between the essential teaching of all Prophets and wise men of religion.
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There's not one wise man among twenty will praise himself.
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They would need to be already wise, in order to love wisdom.
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Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
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Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
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Thinking well to be wise: planning well, wiser: doing well wisest and best of all.
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