Top wise Quotes Collection

Discover a curated collection of wise quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category.

Image of Carol S. Dweck
Effort is one of those things that gives meaning to life. Effort means you care about something, that something is important to you and you are willing to work for it.
- Carol S. Dweck
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You’re in charge of your mind. You can help it grow by using it in the right way.
- Carol S. Dweck
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Test scores and measures of achievement tell you where a student is, but they don't tell you where a student could end up.
- Carol S. Dweck
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Teaching is a wonderful way to learn.
- Carol S. Dweck
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Choosing a partner is choosing a set of problems. There are no problem-free candidates.
- Carol S. Dweck
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Image of Charles Spurgeon
God is too good to be unkind and He is too wise to be mistaken. And when we cannot trace His hand, we must trust His heart. When you are so weak that you cannot do much more than cry, you coin diamonds with both your eyes. The sweetest prayers God ever hears are the groans and sighs of those who have no hope in anything but his love.
- Charles Spurgeon
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Some go to church to take a walk; some go there to laugh and talk. Some go there to meet a friend; some go there their time to spend. Some go there to meet a lover; some go there a fault to cover. Some go there for speculation; some go there for observation. Some go there to doze and nod; the wise go there to worship God.
- Charles Spurgeon
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Image of Francis Quarles
If thou desire to be held wise, be so wise as to hold thy tongue.
- Francis Quarles
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Image of Josh Billings
Some folks as they grow older grow wise but most folks simply grow stubborner.
- Josh Billings
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Image of Josh Billings
Some folks are wise and some otherwise.
- Josh Billings
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Image of Lois Duncan
We are the wise. Do not envy us— We who are too wise to draw near the fire Lest we get burned; We who are too wise to love Lest love should vanish and we be hurt. We are the wise. Do not envy us our wisdom— We who are too wise to live Lest we should die.
- Lois Duncan
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Image of Andrew Harvey
What a recovery of the wisdom of the Mother brings to all of us is the knowledge of inseparable connection with the entire creation and the wise, active love that is born from that knowledge.
- Andrew Harvey
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Image of Jessica Sorensen
No, but I've never been one for wise ideas," he says. "I believe in irrational, fleeting decisions that keep life interesting. And life needs to be interesting because we've got only one of them to live.
- Jessica Sorensen
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Image of Rupert Brooke
Store up reservoirs of calm and content and draw on them at later moments when the source isn't there, but the need is very great.
- Rupert Brooke
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They say that the Dead die not, but remain Near to the rich heirs of their grief and mirth. I think they ride the calm mid-heaven, as these, In wise majestic melancholy train, And watch the moon, and the still-raging seas, And men, coming and going on the earth.
- Rupert Brooke
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There's little comfort in the wise
- Rupert Brooke
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Image of Horace
A word once let out of the cage cannot be whistled back again.
- Horace
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In peace, a wise man makes preparations for war.
- Horace
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Image of Lin Yutang
Those who are wise won't be busy, and those who are too busy can't be wise.
- Lin Yutang
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The busy man is never wise and the wise man is never busy.
- Lin Yutang
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Image of Seneca the Younger
If you don't know, ask. You will be a fool for the moment, but a wise man for the rest of your life.
- Seneca the Younger
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Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.
- Seneca the Younger
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He who seeks wisdom is a wise man; he who thinks he has found it is mad.
- Seneca the Younger
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Image of Alfred Lord Tennyson
the shell must break before the bird can fly.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Image of Charles Stanley
The gate is small because truth guards the entrance. The way is narrow because the Lord protects us with wise boundaries.
- Charles Stanley
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Image of Phyllis Schlafly
The atomic bomb is a marvelous gift that was given to our country by a wise God.
- Phyllis Schlafly
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Image of Giambattista Vico
Political Science carries inseparably with it the study of piety, and that he who is not pious cannot be truly wise.
- Giambattista Vico
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Image of Philip Wylie
Our history is every human history; a black and gory business, with more scoundrels than wise men at the lead, and more louts than both put together to cheer and follow.
- Philip Wylie
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Image of Akhenaton
True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance.
- Akhenaton
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The lips of the wise are as the doors of a cabinet; no sooner are they opened, but treasures are poured out before thee.
- Akhenaton
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Image of Jonathan Maberry
A wise man once said that we can't make anyone feel or do anything. We can throw things into the wind, but it's up to each person to decide how they want to react, where they want to stand when things fall.
- Jonathan Maberry
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Suddenly all those careful preparations disintegrated as predators far more dangerous than the walking dead proved what all wise killers already knew: that nothing was more dangerous than living men.
- Jonathan Maberry
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Image of John Selden
A wise man should never resolve upon anything, at least, never let the world know his resolution, for if he cannot reach that he is ashamed.
- John Selden
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Image of Vinoba Bhave
When a king speaks, the armies move. But when a wise man speaks, only the beard shakes.
- Vinoba Bhave
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Image of Eileen Wilks
Living is very serious, very real. It is also always a game. If we are wise, it is very real, very terrible, and very lovely, and a good deal of fun.
- Eileen Wilks
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Image of Bruce Sterling
If poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world, science fiction writers are its court jesters. We are Wise Fools who can leap, caper, utter prophecies, and scratch ourselves in public. We can play with Big Ideas because the garish motley of our pulp origins make us seem harmless.
- Bruce Sterling
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Image of T. H. White
We find that at present the human race is divided politically into one wise man, nine knaves, and ninety fools out of every hundred. That is, by an optimistic observer. The nine knaves assemble themselves under the banner of the most knavish among them, and become politicians; the wise man stands out, because he knows himself to be hopelessly out-numbered, and devotes himself to poetry, mathematics or philosophy; while the ninety fools plod off behind the banners of the nine villains, according to fancy, into the labyrinths of chicanery, malice and warfare.
- T. H. White
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Image of Wendy Mass
A wise man once remarked that we can count how many seeds are in the apple, but not how many apples are in the seed.
- Wendy Mass
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Image of George Ade
Where ignorance is not bliss, get wise!
- George Ade
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Image of Edward Young
Be wise to-day; 't is madness to defer.
- Edward Young
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Image of Herman E. Daly
Even if we could grow our way out of the crisis and delay the inevitable and painful reconciliation of virtual and real wealth, there is the question of whether this would be a wise thing to do. Marginal costs of additional growth in rich countries, such as global warming, biodiversity loss and roadways choked with cars, now likely exceed marginal benefits of a little extra consumption. The end result is that promoting further economic growth makes us poorer, not richer.
- Herman E. Daly
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Image of Alice Bailey
People have sought to adjust the truth to the hour instead of adjusting the hour to the truth, and in diplomacy they have endeavoured to bring about as much of the reality as they deem wise.
- Alice Bailey
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Image of Catherine Fisher
Where are the leaders?' Sapphique asked. 'In the fortresses,' the swan replied. 'And the poets?' 'Lost in dreams of other worlds.' 'And the craftsmen?' 'Forging machines to challenge the darkness.' 'And the Wise, who made the world?' The swan lowered its black neck sadly. 'Dwindled to crones and sorcerers in towers.
- Catherine Fisher
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Image of Katrina Kenison
...there is no such thing as a charmed life, not for any of us, no matter where we live or how mindfully we attend to the tasks at hand. But there are charmed moments, all the time, in every life and in every day, if we are only awake enough to experience them when they come and wise enough to appreciate them.
- Katrina Kenison
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Image of Henry Miller
...the wise man knows that every experience is to be viewed as a blessing.
- Henry Miller
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Image of Izaak Walton
Rivers and the inhabitants of the watery element were made for wise men to contemplate, and fools to pass by without consideration.
- Izaak Walton
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Image of Philip Gilbert Hamerton
Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted, than when we read it in the original author?
- Philip Gilbert Hamerton
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Image of Colleen Coble
There are always choices in life. People are going to pull you in all directions. Where you end up is a direct result of how wise your decisions are.
- Colleen Coble
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Image of Czeslaw Milosz
The child who dwells inside us trusts that there are wise men somewhere who know the truth.
- Czeslaw Milosz
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