Alice Walker Quotes, Wise Quotes, Ocean Quotes

It is chilling to think that the same people who persecuted the wise women and men of Europe, its midwives and healers, then crossed the oceans to Africa and the Americas and tortured and enslaved, raped, impoverished, and eradicated the peaceful, Christ-like people they found. And that the blueprint from which they worked, and still work, was the Bible.

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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

Gentlemen, let us suppose that man is not stupid. (Indeed one cannot refuse to suppose that, if only from the one consideration, that, if man is stupid, then who is wise?) But if he is not stupid, he is monstrously ungrateful! Phenomenally ungrateful. In fact, I believe that the best definition of man is the ungrateful biped.

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Five minutes of today are worth as much to me, as five minutes in the next millennium. Let us be poised, and wise, and our own, today.

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If you don't have a vision for the future, then your future is threatened to be a repeat of the past.

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It is very hard to be simple enough to be good.

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Nine tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time.

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Tags : Theodore Roosevelt Quotes , Inspirational Quotes , Wise Quotes

Be happy, be happy; you shall have your red rose. I will build it out of music by moonlight, and stain it with my own heart's-blood. All that I ask of you in return is that you will be a true lover, for Love is wiser than Philosophy, though she is wise, and mightier than Power, though he is mighty.

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Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Life Quotes , Wise Quotes

Only make decisions that support your self-image, self-esteem, and self-worth.

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Cabbage: a familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head.

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He who walks in the company of fools suffers much. Company with fools, as with an enemy, is always painful. Company with the wise is pleasure, like meeting with kinfolk.

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Tags : Gautama Buddha Quotes , Wise Quotes , Buddhist Quotes

The only people who cannot change are the most wise and the most stupid.

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Tags : Confucius Quotes , Wise Quotes , Stupid Quotes

I love tranquil solitude, And such society As is quiet, wise, and good; Between thee and me What difference? but thou dost possess The things I seek, not love them less.

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They consider me to have sharp and penetrating vision because I see them through the mesh of a sieve.

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Tags : Khalil Gibran Quotes , Wise Quotes , Wisdom Quotes

How little can we foresee the consequences either of wise or unwise action, of virtue or of malice. Without this measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of human life would be destroyed.

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There is not one wise man in twenty that will praise himself.

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If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.

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

Always without desire we must be found, If its deep mystery we would sound; But if desire always within us be, Its outer fringe is all that we shall see.

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Tags : Laozi Quotes , Wise Quotes , Wisdom Quotes

Mob rule and emasculation of the wise' and 'who will watch the guardians'?

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Tags : Plato Quotes , Wise Quotes , Mob Rule Quotes

The seeker after truth should be humbler than the dust. The world crushes the dust under its feet, but the seeker after truth should so humble himself that even the dust could crush him. Only then, and not till then, will he have a glimpse of truth.

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