Wise Quotes

Writing is as big a part of my career as acting is, financially and time wise. So, yeah, I love it. That's all I wanted to do since I was young was be a writer. So that and acting are the two most important aspects of my career.

Jonah Hill

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We must not be wise and prudent according to the flesh. Rather, we must be simple, humble and pure.

Francis of Assisi

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The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.

Herodotus

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Nothing wise was ever printed upon an apron.

Demetri Martin

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When I was young, I asked my priest how you could get to Heaven and still protect yourself from all the evil in the world. He told me what God said to his children. You are sheep among wolves. Be wise as serpents, yet innocent as doves.

Casey Affleck

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No man is great enough or wise enough for any of us to surrender our destiny to. The only way in which anyone can lead us is to restore to us the belief in our own guidance.

Henry Miller

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One sees more and more people who are miserable and demented and you feel it would be both kind and wise to leave them a few pills.

Deborah Moggach

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It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.

Aeschylus

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A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion.

Grantland Rice

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It's not wise to limit firms' expansion projects. Let us only be limited by the market.

Ciputra

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Wise it is to comprehend the whole.

Edward Young

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Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.

George Santayana

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Perhaps this is one of the last remaining strands of my Catholic upbringing, but to me the word 'worship' means absolute unquestioning affirmation of the authority of the deity. I'll not have that in my life. If you are wise, neither will you.

Brendan Myers

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The fool wonders, the wise man asks.

Benjamin Disraeli

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Major actions by courageous and wise men will be necessary to avoid our continuing to blunder into the space age like unenlightened and selfish idiots.

Fritz Zwicky

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A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.

Bruce Lee

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For the wise man looks into space and he knows there is no limited dimensions.

Zhuangzi

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He was a wise man who originated the idea of God.

Euripides

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The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life - knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.

Aristotle

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The wise man does not grow old, but ripens.

Victor Hugo

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I became a Republican when a very wise young lady asked me how I could remain a Democrat when I didn't agree with what they stood for and did agree with what the Republicans supported.

Jesse Helms

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

Epictetus

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My parents called me their wise little baby. I was mature when I was 4 or 5. My brother and sister were older, so I was raised by four adults.

Annabeth Gish

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It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents.

Samuel Butler

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