Lewis Carroll Quotes, Wise Quotes, Would Be Quotes

If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrariwise, what it is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be it would. You see?

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The fool who thinks he is wise is just a fool. The fool who knows he is a fool is wise indeed.

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Tags : Gautama Buddha Quotes , Wise Quotes , Buddhist Quotes

The Errors of a Wise Man make your Rule Rather than the Perfections of a Fool.

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Tags : William Blake Quotes , Wise Quotes , Men Quotes

Noble and wise men once believed in the music of the spheres: noble and wise men still continue to believe in the "moral significance of existence." But one day even this sphere-music will no longer be audible to them! They will wake up and take note that their ears were dreaming.

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Wise Quotes , Dream Quotes

I believe when I am in the mood that all nature is full of people whom we cannot see, and that some of these are ugly or grotesque, and some wicked or foolish, but very many beautiful beyond any one we have ever seen, and that these are not far away... and the simple of all times and the wise men of ancient times have seen them and even spoken to them.

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Tags : William Butler Yeats Quotes , Beautiful Quotes , Wise Quotes

If you see an intelligent man who tells you where true treasures are to be found, who shows what is to be avoided, and administers reproofs,follow that wise man ; it will be better, not worse, for those who follow him.

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Tags : Gautama Buddha Quotes , Wise Quotes , Buddhist Quotes

Each of us has that right, that possibility, to invent ourselves daily. If a person does not invent herself, she will be invented. So, to be bodacious enough to invent ourselves is wise.

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Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , Life Quotes , Wise Quotes

To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man.

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Tags : Aristotle Quotes , Wise Quotes , Writing Quotes

We find nothing easier than being wise, patient, superior. We drip with the oil of forbearance and sympathy, we are absurdly just, we forgive everything. For that very reason we ought to discipline ourselves a little; for that very reason we ought to cultivate a little emotion, a little emotional vice, from time to time. It may be hard for us; and among ourselves we may perhaps laugh at the appearance we thus present. But what of that! We no longer have any other mode of self-overcoming available to us: this is our asceticism, our penance.

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Sympathy Quotes , Wise Quotes

Extol not riches then, the toil of fools, The wise man's cumbrance, if not snare, more apt To slacken virtue, and abate her edge, Than prompt her to do aught may merit praise.

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Tags : John Milton Quotes , Wise Quotes , Men Quotes

A wise God shrouds the future in obscure darkness. [Lat., Prudens futuri temporis exitum Caliginosa nocte premit deus.]

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Tags : Horace Quotes , Wise Quotes , Future Quotes

Because, unlike courage and wisdom, which made our state brave and wise by being present in a particular part of it, discipline operates by being diffused throughout the whole of it. It produces a concord between its strongest and weakest and middle elements, whether you define them by the standard of good sense, or of strength, or of numbers or money or the like. And so we are quite justified in regarding discipline as this sort of natural harmony and agreement between higher and lower about which of them is to rule in state and individual.

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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.

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Tags : Sun Tzu Quotes , Wise Quotes , Wisdom Quotes

People do not naturally become morally excellent or practically wise. They become so, if at all, only as the result of lifelong personal and community effort.

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Tags : Aristotle Quotes , Wise Quotes , People Quotes

What enables the wise sovereign and the good general to strike and conquer, and achieve things beyond the reach of ordinary men, is foreknowledge.

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Tags : Sun Tzu Quotes , Wise Quotes , Art Quotes

The art of sculpture is long ago perished to any real effect... it is the game of a rude and youthful people, and not the manly labour of a wise and spiritual nation.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Wise Quotes , Spiritual Quotes

Much knowledge will corrupt the heart,/When partly understood,/And so the people grow too smart,/But neither wise nor good.

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Tags : Laozi Quotes , Education Quotes , Wise Quotes

Although God is all powerful, He is unable to give more; though supremely wise, He knows not how to give more; though vastly rich, He has not more to give.

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Tags : Saint Augustine Quotes , Wise Quotes , Powerful Quotes

O why did God, Creator wise, that peopled highest heav'n With Spirits masculine, create at last This novelty on earth, this fair defect Of nature, and not fill the world at once With men as angels without feminine, Or find some other way to generate Mankind?

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Tags : John Milton Quotes , Wise Quotes , Angel Quotes

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

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Tags : Ovid Quotes , Wise Quotes , Time Quotes