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Wise Quotes (page 34)

We want to believe in the essential, unchanging goodness of people, in their power to resist external pressures, in their rational appraisal and then rejection of situational temptations. We invest human nature with God-like qualities, with moral and rational faculties that make us both just and wise. We simplify the complexity of human experience by erecting a seemingly impermeable boundary between Good and Evil. Philip Zimbardo
Wilkie Collins quote: "The fool's crime is the crime that is found out and the wise..."
The fool's crime is the crime that is found out and the wise man's crime is the crime that is not found out. Wilkie Collins
You live as if you were destined to live forever, no thought of your frailty ever enters your head, of how much time has already gone by you take no heed. You squander time as if you drew from a full and abundant supply, so all the while that day which you bestow on some person or thing is perhaps your last. You have all the fears of mortals and all the desires of immortal? What foolish forgetfulness of mortality to defer wise resolutions to the fiftieth or sixtieth year, and to intend to... Denis Diderot
A wise reader reads the book of genius not with his heart, not so much with his brain, but with his spine. It is there that occurs the telltale tingle... Vladimir Nabokov
Richard Baxter quote: "To live among such excellent helps as our libraries afford, to..."
To live among such excellent helps as our libraries afford, to have so many silent wise companions whenever we please. Richard Baxter
Anthony de Mello quote: "When you come to see you are not as wise today as you thought..."
When you come to see you are not as wise today as you thought you were yesterday, you are wiser today. Anthony de Mello
Sharp and mild, dull and keen, well known and strange, dirty and clean, where both the fool and wise are seen: All this am I, have ever been, -in me dove, snake and swine convene! Friedrich Nietzsche
~Do you like him much? ~I told you I like him a little. Where is the use of caring for him so very much? He is full of faults. ~Is he? ~All boys are. ~More than girls? ~Very likely. Wise people say it is folly to think anyboy perfect, and as to likes and diskiles, we should be friendly to all, and worship none. Charlotte Bronte
The night is quiet. Like a camp before battle. The city beset by a thing unknown and will it come from forest or sea? The murengers have walled the pale, the gates are shut, but lo the thing's inside and can you guess his shape? Where he's kept or what's the counter of his face? Is he a weaver, bloody shuttle shot through a time warp, a carder of souls from the world's nap? Or a hunter with hounds or do bone horses draw his dead cart through the streets and does he call his trade to each?... Cormac McCarthy
William Shakespeare quote: "Who can be wise, amazed, temp'rate, and furious, Loyal and..."
Who can be wise, amazed, temp'rate, and furious, Loyal and neutral, in a moment? No man. William Shakespeare
Dean Koontz quote: "Every talent is unearned, however, and with it comes a solemn..."
Every talent is unearned, however, and with it comes a solemn obligation to use it as fully and as wisely as possible. Dean Koontz
Everything that goes around comes around, they say, and although I've never been able to figure out who the mysteriously wise sages known as "they" might be, they're certainly right when it comes to time-travel. Stephen King
The impression made on a wise man is that of universal innocence. Poison is not poisonous after all, nor are any wounds fatal. Compassion is a very untenable ground. It must be expeditious. Its pleadings will not bear to be stereotyped. Henry David Thoreau
He will pity us who pitied everyone ... And He will say, 'I receive them, my wise and reasonable ones, forasmuch as not one of them considered himself worthy of this thing ... Fyodor Dostoevsky
The hidden and awful Wisdom which apportions the destinies of mankind is pleased so to humiliate and cast down the tender, good, and wise; and to set up the selfish, the foolish, or the wicked. Oh, be humble, my brother, in your prosperity! Be gentle with those who are less lucky, if not more deserving. Think, what right have you to be scornful, whose virtue is a deficiency of temptation, whose success may be a chance, whose rank may be an ancestor's accident, whose prosperity is very... William Makepeace Thackeray

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