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- Nov 07, 2020
Wise Quotes
The quiet strength of a wise mind.
This page brings together quotes that treat wisdom as something inward-facing - a performer describing the problem-solving pleasure of her craft, and a separate line arguing the only worthwhile competition a wise person has is with themselves. Pair it with Status for shorter versions of the same idea.
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- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
Search well and be wise, nor believe that self-willed pride will ever be better than good counsel.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is best for the wise man not to seem wise.
- Gods
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- Nov 07, 2020
For this is the mark of a wise and upright man, not to rail against the gods in misfortune.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
The one knowing what is profitable, and not the man knowing many things, is wise.
- Failure
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- Nov 07, 2020
The wisest of the wise may err.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Bible is proved to be a revelation from God, by the reasonableness and holiness of its precepts; all its commands, exhortations, and promises having the most direct tendency to make men wise, holy, and happy in themselves, and useful to one another.
- Faith
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am shy to admit that I have followed the advice given all those years ago by a wise archbishop to a bewildered young man: that moments of unbelief 'don't matter,' that if you return to a practice of the faith, faith will return.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
If New York is a wise guy, Paris a coquette, Rome a gigolo and Berlin a wicked uncle, then London is an old lady who mutters and has the second sight. She is slightly deaf, and doesn't suffer fools gladly.
- Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
Work wise, as a stunt woman, I enjoy telly - or TV - because - and, as an actor - I kind of enjoy the urgency of it. I enjoy the problem-solving that's happening. Right now, we don't have time to rehearse for hours. And, if something goes wrong, we don't have time to shoot something else for four days until we sort it out.
- Back
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think in a play it's wise to just sit back and watch other actors and be able to shape it from the audience.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
We need to have complete certainty that things will work out, not because we are righteous or wise, but because of the time, the effort, the prayers, and the tools we are using. From the moment we are given awareness about some bigger picture or mission, we have to have complete focus on what to do to get to that place.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020