Quotes 361 till 380 of 409.
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Where wise actions are the fruit of life, wise discourse is the pollination.
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Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He who is content. Who is that? Nobody.
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Who knows what we live, and struggle, and die?... Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom.
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Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men?
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Will it not be wise to allow the friendship between nations to rest upon deep and permanent things?... Irritations of the cuticle must not be confounded with heart failure.
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Wisdom is like electricity. There is no permanently wise man, but men capable of wisdom, who, being put into certain company, or other favorable conditions, become wise for a short time, as glasses rubbed acquire electric power for a while.
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Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.
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Wise and humane management of the patient is the best safeguard against infection.
Florence Nightingale
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Wise anger is like fire from a flint: there is great ado to get it out; and when it does come, it is out again immediately.
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Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.
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Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible.
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Wise men are not wise at all hours, and will speak five times from their taste or their humor, to once from their reason.
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Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.
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Wise men learn many things from their enemies.
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Wise men never sit and wail their loss, but cheerily seek how to redress their harms.
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Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.
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Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent.
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