Alice Walker Quotes, Wise Quotes, Earth Day Quotes

I had assumed that the Earth, the spirit of the Earth, noticed exceptions-those who wantonly damage it and those who do not. But the Earth is wise. It has given itself into the keeping of all, and all are therefore accountable.

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Just as a solid rock is not shaken by the storm, even so the wise are not affected by praise or blame.

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You create your own universe as you go along.

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If you are wise you won't be deceived by the innocent airs of those whom you have once found to be dangerous.

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The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.

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Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.

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We prize books, and they prize them most who are themselves wise.

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Oh, be wise, Thou! Instructed that true knowledge leads to love.

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Solvitur ambulando . . . it is solved by walking.

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They say philosophers and wise men are indifferent. Wrong. Indifference is a paralysis of the soul, a premature death.

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

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Dogs are wise. They crawl away into a quiet corner and lick their wounds and do not rejoin the world until they are whole once more.

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Just as bees make honey from thyme, the strongest and driest of herbs, so do the wise profit from the most difficult of experiences.

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Let us be poised, wise and our own today.

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No man can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowledge. The teacher who walks in the shadow of the temple, among his followers, gives not of his wisdom but rather of his faith and his lovingness. If he is indeed wise he does not bid you enter the house of his wisdom, but rather leads you to the threshold of your own mind.

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The wise man, after learning something new, is afraid to learn anything more until he has put his first lesson into practice.

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The cure of many diseases is unknown to physicians because they are ignorant of the whole... For the part can never be well unless the whole is well.

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Some princes, so as to hold securely the state, have disarmed their subjects, others have kept their subject towns distracted by factions...Our forefathers, and those who were reckoned wise, were accustomed to say that it was necessary to hold Pistoia [an Italian city] by factions and Pisa by fortress, and with this idea they fostered quarrels in some of their tributary towns so as to keep possession of them the more easily.

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

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Thy actions to thy words accord; thy words To thy large heart give utterance due; thy heart; Contains of good, wise, just, the perfect shape.

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