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" Quotes and Sayings About the wise

The most foolish people on earth are considered the wisest
Foolish Wisest Earth Foolish people
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Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives – choice, not chance, determines your destiny.

Accident Result Intention Destiny
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The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.

Wise Secure Pleasure Avoid
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What the wise do in the beginning, fools do in the end

Wise Fool Beginning End
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The wise man knows that it is better to sit on the banks of a remote mountain stream than to be emperor of the whole world.
Wise Banks Mountain Emperor
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Irrigators channel waters; fletchers straighten arrows; carpenters bend wood; the wise master themselves.

Channel Master Water Bend
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Drop by drop is the water pot filled. Likewise, the wise man, gathering it little by little, fills himself with good.

Drop Water Pot Wise
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Even as a solid rock is unshaken by the wind, so are the wise unshaken by praise or blame.

Solid Rock Even Wind
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And what has been hidden from the wise and the prudent been revealed in the mouth of the toddlers.

Been Wise Mouth Hidden
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I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.
Alive Man Know One
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The wisest among my race understand that agitations of social equality is the extremist folly, and that progress in the enjoyment of all privileges that will come to us must be the result of severe and constant struggle rather than of artificial forcing.

Severe Constant Result Progress
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The shallow consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise man sees in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws.

Every Law Contrary Potent
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The wise people are in New York because the foolish went there first, that's the way the wise men make a living.

People Wise First Living
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At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time.

Delay Everything Folly Hasten
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My idea is always to reach my generation. The wise writer writes for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmasters of ever afterward.

Afterwards Always Critics Ever
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My mother is probably the wisest person I've ever known. She's not schooled, she's not well read. But she has a philosophy of life that makes well-read people seem like morons.

Ever Known Life Like
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Now the reason the enlightened prince and the wise general conquer the enemy whenever they move and their achievements surpass those of ordinary men is foreknowledge.

Achievements Conquer Enemy Enlightened
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It is only the enlightened ruler and the wise general who will use the highest intelligence of the army for the purposes of spying, and thereby they achieve great results.

Achieve Army Enlightened General
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The wisest mind has something yet to learn.

Learn Mind Something Wisest
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Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital. The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket.

Basket Capital Concentrate Eggs
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Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.

Change Stupidest Wisest Men
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The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.

Does Gives He His
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Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.

Common Common People False People
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There is one safeguard known generally to the wise, which is an advantage and security to all, but especially to democracies as against despots - suspicion.

Advantage Against Democracy Despot
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When I look upon seamen, men of science and philosophers, man is the wisest of all beings; when I look upon priests and prophets nothing is as contemptible as man.

Wisest Priests Contemptible Look
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Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the rest is in the hands of God.

God Hands Honest Raise
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It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.

Foolish Nature Pleasures Resist
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The wise man does at once what the fool does finally
Wise Man Fool Finally
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The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love.

Because Fool Fools Love
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The weak have remedies, the wise have joys; superior wisdom is superior bliss.

Wise Bliss Weak Joys
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The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.

Ages Experience Quotations Wisdom
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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.
Greatest People Scholars Wisest
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The wise man does not grow old, but ripens.
Wise Man Goes Grow
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To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.

Errors Future Good Learn
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Abuse no one and no thing, for abuse turns the wise ones to fools and robs the spirit of its vision.

Abuse Wise Fools Spirit
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I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours.

Sorry Point Life Extinct
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Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.

Among Appear Foolish Fools
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The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.

Wise Man Restrain Sense
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In the days of Moses and the prophets such a man would have been counted among the wise men of the land; in the Middle Ages he would have been burned at the stake.

Days Moses Prophets Counted
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Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.

Adversity Course Embrace Wise
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The greatest misfortune of the wise man and the greatest unhappiness of the fool are based upon convention.

Greatest Misfortune Wise Man
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Anyone can find fault. It is the wise person who finds that which encourages another in the turmoils and strifes of the day.

Fault Wise.person Encourages
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Into the darkness they go, the wise & the lovely
Darkness Do Wise Lovely
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The wisest word man reaches is the humblest he can speak.

Wisest Word man Humblest
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Hip is the sophistication of the wise primitive in a giant jungle.
Giant Hip Jungle Primitive
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Time is the wisest counselor of all.

Counselor Time Wisest
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We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.

No words Wisdom Understands
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That's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over, lest you should think he never could recapture the first fine careless rapture!

Careless Could Each Fine
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There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want, and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.

Achieve After Aim Enjoy
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A little nonsense now and then, is cherished by the wisest men.

Cherished Little Nonsense Wisest
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