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  • Anatole France It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
    Anatole France
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1921) (1844 - 1924)
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  • Amos Bronson Alcott One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.
    Amos Bronson Alcott
    American educator and social reformer (1799 - 1888)
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  • Horace Who then is free? The one who wisely is lord of themselves, who neither poverty, death or captivity terrify, who is strong to resist his appetites and shun honors, and is complete in themselves smooth and round like a globe.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • Barbra Streisand A man who graduated high in his class at Yale Law School and made partnership in a top law firm would be celebrated. A man who invested wisely would be admired, but a woman who accomplishes this is treated with suspicion.
    Barbra Streisand
    American singer, songwriter, actress, and filmmaker (1942 - )
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  • William Somerset Maugham At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Euripides Events will take their course, it is no good of being angry at them; he is happiest who wisely turns them to the best account.
    Euripides
    Greek tragedian and poet (480 - 406)
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  • Abba Eban History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
    Abba Eban
    Israeli diplomat and politician (1915 - 2002)
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  • Freeman Dyson If we had a reliable way to label our toys good and bad, it would be easy to regulate technology wisely. But we can rarely see far enough ahead to know which road leads to damnation. Whoever concerns himself with big technology, either to push it forward or to stop it, is gambling in human lives.
    Freeman Dyson
    American arts, writer (1923 - 2020)
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  • Jo Coudert In order to plan your future wisely, it is necessary that you understand and appreciate your past.
    Jo Coudert
    American author
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  • C. Wright Mills In the formulas of 'personnel experts', men and women are to be shaped into the 'well rounded, acceptable, effective personality.' Just like small proprietors, they cannot higgle over prices, which are fixed, or 'judge the market' and accordingly buy wisely.
    White Collar :The American Middle Classes (1951)
    C. Wright Mills
    American sociologist (1916 - 1962)
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  • Alfred N. Whitehead Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct form ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.
    Alfred N. Whitehead
    English philosopher and mathematician (1861 - 1947)
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  • Agnes Repplier It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh.
    Agnes Repplier
    American writer and social criticus (1855 - 1950)
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  • W. M. Thackeray It is best to love wisely, no doubt, but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.
    W. M. Thackeray
    Indian-born, British novelist (1811 - 1863)
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  • W. M. Thackeray It is best to love wisely, no doubt: but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.
    W. M. Thackeray
    Indian-born, British novelist (1811 - 1863)
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  • Epicurus It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life.
    Epicurus
    Greek Philosopher (341 - 270)
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. In is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and a manly heart.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Abba Eban Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives.
    Abba Eban
    Israeli diplomat and politician (1915 - 2002)
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  • Samuel Johnson Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • William Gilmore Simms Neither praise or blame is the object of true criticism. Justly to discriminate, firmly to establish, wisely to prescribe, and honestly to award. These are the true aims and duties of criticism.
    William Gilmore Simms
    American poet, novelist and historian (1806 - 1870)
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  • Auguste Rodin Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.
    Auguste Rodin
    French sculptor (1840 - 1917)
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