Wise Quotes, Wisdom Sayings - Page 7

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There are many questions which fools can ask that wise men cannot answer.
- George Polya

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Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

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With money in your pocket, you are wise and you are handsome and you sing well too.
- Yiddish Proverb

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Be not the first by whom the new are tried, nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
- Alexander Pope

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He can who thinks he can, And he can’t who thinks he can’t. This is an indisputable law.
- Henry Ford

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Turn on the prudent ant thy heedful eyes. Observe her labors, sluggard, and be wise.
- Samuel Johnson

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I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can’t be done.
- Henry Ford

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Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
- G.K. Chesterton

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A man carries his success or his failure with him… it does not depend on outside conditions.
- Ralph Waldo Trine

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The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve.
- Buddha

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All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.
- Lao Tzu

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We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.
- William James

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After a day spent staring at a computer monitor, think of a book as a kind of screen saver for your brain.
- Dave Barry

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Hatred is blind, anger is foolhardy, and he who pours out vengeance risks having to drink a bitter draft.
- Alexandre Dumas

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It is too easy to give up on ourselves when we let who we are today preventing us from seeing what we can be tomorrow.
- Michael Josephson

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We enter the world alone, we leave it alone.
- James Anthony

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The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Ivan Illich

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Of all days, the day on which one has not laughed is the one most surely wasted.
- Nicolas Chamfort

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A word to the wise ain’t necessary – it’s the stupid ones that need the advice.
- Bill Cosby

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Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly.
- M. F. K. Fisher

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Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourself.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

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Gardens are not made by singing “Oh, how beautiful,” and sitting in the shade.
- Rudyard Kipling

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A bird in hand is safer than one overhead.
- Anonymous

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Nature takes away any faculty that is not used.
- William R. Inge

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Life’s tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.
- Benjamin Franklin

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It takes nine months to have a baby, no matter how many people you put on the job.
- American Proverb

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To sit alone with my conscience will be judgment enough for me.
- Charles William Stubbs

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If you chase two rabbits, both will escape.
- Chinese Proverb

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An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.
- Winston Churchill

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Ability may be what takes you to the top, but it is character that keeps you there.
- Katie

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Divide and rule, the politician cries; unite and lead, is watchword of the wise.
- Johann Wolfgang

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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
- Marcel Proust

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When solving problems, dig at the roots instead of just hacking at the leaves.
- Anthony J. D’Angelo

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Any fool can make a rule, and every fool will mind it.
- Henry David Thoreau

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Excellence is not a singular act but a habit.You are what you do repeatedly.
- Shaquille O’Neal

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Behind most healthy people, there are a lot of unhealthy times.
- Darina Stoyanova

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Sometimes you gotta create what you want to be a part of.
- Geri Weitzman

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History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
- Abba Eban

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Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think that you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.
- Ayn Rand

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I have no data yet. It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories instead of theories to suit facts.
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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