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Wise Quotes (page 7)

Michael Reed quote: "Any fool can say he is wise but only someone wise can admit he..."
Any fool can say he is wise but only someone wise can admit he is a fool. Michael Reed
Francois Rabelais quote: "How do you know antiquity was foolish? How do you know the..."
How do you know antiquity was foolish? How do you know the present is wise? Who made it foolish? Who made it wise? Francois Rabelais
Quintilian quote: "Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem..."
Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish. Quintilian
Francis Quarles quote: "Be wisely worldly, but not worldly wise."
Be wisely worldly, but not worldly wise. Francis Quarles
Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance. Isaac Asimov
He that will write well in any tongue, must follow this counsel of Aristotle, to speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do: and so should every man understand him, and the judgment of wise men allow him. Roger Ascham
Amos Bronson Alcott quote: "One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well."
One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well. Amos Bronson Alcott
Those who gave thee a body, furnished it with weakness; but He who gave thee Soul, armed thee with resolution. Employ it, and thou art wise; be wise and thou art happy. Akhenaton
Aeschylus quote: "It is best for the wise man not to seem wise."
It is best for the wise man not to seem wise. Aeschylus
J. R. R. Tolkien quote: "I wisely started with a map."
I wisely started with a map. J. R. R. Tolkien
Maya Angelou quote: "The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to..."
The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise. Maya Angelou
The silver Swan, who living had no Note, when Death approached, unlocked her silent throat. Leaning her breast against the reedy shore, thus sang her first and last, and sang no more: Farewell, all joys! O Death, come close mine eyes! More Geese than Swans now live, more Fools than Wise. Orlando Gibbons
It had that comfortably sprung, lived-in look that library books with a lively circulation always get; bent page corners, a dab of mustard on page 331, a whiff of some reader's spilled after-dinner whiskey on page 468. Only library books speak with such wordless eloquence of the power good stories hold over us, how good stories abide, unchanged and mutely wise, while we poor humans grow older and slower. Stephen King
In my business, one learns there is a fine line between insanity and genius. We would be wise to give this man a little respect. Dan Brown
You think it - wise - to trust Hagrid with something as important as this?"I would trust Hagrid with my life," said Dumbledore. J. K. Rowling

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