Gautama Buddha Quotes, Inspirational Quotes, Wise Quotes

Believe nothing just because a so-called wise person said it. Believe nothing just because a belief is generally held. Believe nothing just because it is said in ancient books. Believe nothing just because it is said to be of divine origin. Believe nothing just because someone else believes it. Believe only what you yourself test and judge to be true.

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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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When complaints are freely heard, deeply considered and speedily reformed, then is the utmost bound of civil liberty attained that wise men look for.

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There are many wise men that have secret hearts and transparent countenances.

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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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For other things mild Heav'n a time ordains, And disapproves that care, though wise in show, That with superfluous burden loads the day, And when God sends a cheerful hour, refrains.

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It would be most right, and most wise, and, therefore must involve least suffering.

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Wise sayings are not only for ornament, but for action and business, having a point or edge, whereby knots in business are pierced and discovered.

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Humility is the secret of the wise.

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The Navy is very old and very wise.

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He who is really good can never be unhappy. He who is really wise can never be perplexed. He who is really brave is never afraid.

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Time itself is an individual gift. It is wise to cherish it carefully and give it away generously.

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Type of the wise who soar but never roam, True to the kindred points of heaven and home.

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Oh, Love is the crooked thing, there is nobody wise enough to find out all that is in it, for he will be thinking about love til the stars run away and the shadows eaten the moon.

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

We live in succession, in division, in parts, in particles. Meantime within man is the soul of the whole; the wise silence; the universal beauty, to which every part and particle is equally related; the eternal ONE.

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He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.

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Those who know are wise. Those who know themselves are enlightened.

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Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.

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The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life - knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.

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The foolish man wonders at the unusual, but the wise man at the usual.

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