Quotes 341 till 360 of 409.
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Was it a friend or foe that spread these lies? Nay, who but infants question in such wise, 'twas one of my most intimate enemies.
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We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
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We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.
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We can learn much from wise words, and less from wise guys.
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We cannot advance without new experiments in living, but no wise man tries every day what he has proved wrong the day before.
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We do know that no one gets wise enough to really understand the heart of another, though it is the task of our life to try.
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We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.
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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.
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We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow. Our wiser sons, no doubt will think us so.
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What could be more beautiful than a dear old lady growing wise with age? Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it.
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What is wrong with priests and popes is that instead of being apostles and saints, they are nothing but empirics who say ''I know'' instead of ''I am learning,'' and pray for credulity and inertia as wise men pray for skepticism and activity.
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What should a wise person do when given a blow? Same as Cato when he was attacked; not fire up or revenge the insult., or even return the blow, but simply ignore it.
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When complaints are freely heard, deeply considered and speedily reformed, then is the utmost bound of civil liberty attained that wise men look for.
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When government programs aren't working, those on the Left tend to support more funding, while those on the Right want to scrap them altogether. It is better to ask whether the problem is complexity and poor design. We can solve those problems - sometimes without spending a penny.
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When I wrote 'Runaways,' I was a naive kid who thought that all parents were evil. Now that I'm a wise old man with children of my own, I am certain that all parents are evil.
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When it comes to Chinese food I have always operated under the policy that the less known about the preparation the better. A wise diner who is invited to visit the kitchen replies by saying, as politely as possible, that he has a pressing engagement elsewhere.
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When you come to see you are not as wise today as you thought you were yesterday, you are wiser today.
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Where ignorance is bliss, 't is folly to be wise.
Ode on a distant prospect of Eton College
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