Carl Sagan Quotes, Christian Quotes, Wise Quotes

I am not an atheist. An atheist is someone who has compelling evidence that there is no Judeo-Christian-Islamic God. I am not that wise, but neither do I consider there to be anything approaching adequate evidence for such a god. Why are you in such a hurry to make up your mind? Why not simply wait until there is compelling evidence?

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We must believe that He permits it [this war] for some wise purpose of his own, mysterious and unknown to us; and though with ourlimited understandings we may not be able to comprehend it, yet we cannot but believe, that he who made the world still governs it.

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Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.

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Rules were made for fools to follow and wise men to be guided by.

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The world has been made by fools that wise men may live in it.

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Grief should be the instructor of the wise; Sorrow is Knowledge.

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

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A wise man speaks because he has something to say; a fool because he has to say something.

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Music has the capacity to touch the innermost reaches of the soul and music gives flight to the imagination.

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Activity is the only road to knowledge.

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I am sure of this, that by going much alone a man will get more of a noble courage in thought and word than from all the wisdom that is in books.

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They were beaten to start with. They were beaten when they took them from their farms and put them in the army. That is why the peasant has wisdom, because he is defeated from the start. Put him in power and see how wise he is.

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Tags : Ernest Hemingway Quotes , Wise Quotes , Life Lesson Quotes

I am rather inclined to silence, and whether that be wise or not, it is at least more unusual nowadays to find a man who can hold his tongue than to find one who cannot.

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Thou hast a voice, great Mountain, to repeal. Large codes of fraud and woe; not understood by all, but which the wise, and great, and good interpret, or make felt, or deeply feel.

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Coffee which makes the politician wise, and see through all things with his half-shut eyes.

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The Navy is very old and very wise.

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The poor inhabitant below Was quick to learn and wise to know And keenly felt the friendly glow And softer flame; But thoughtless follies laid him low, And stain'd his name!

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The key to success in life is using the good thoughts of wise people.

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Chiefs who no more in bloody fights engage, But wise through time, and narrative with age, In summer-days like grasshoppers rejoice - A bloodless race, that send a feeble voice.

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To get to know a country, you must have direct contact with the earth. It's futile to gaze at the world through a car window.

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