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The only people who cannot change are the most wise and the most stupid. -- Confucius
It would be most right, and most wise, and, therefore must involve least suffering. -- Jane Austen
Those men that in their writings are most wise Own nothing but their blind, stupefied hearts. -- William Butler Yeats
All are sure in their days except the most wise ... He is the wisest philosopher who holds his theory with some doubt. -- Michael Faraday
Almighty Power, by whose most wise command, helpless, forlorn, uncertain, here I stand, take this faint glimmer of thyself away, or break into my soul with perfect day! -- John Arbuthnot
Sometimes in life it is most wise to behave like a bridge: Don't judge the person who comes to you; let him come and pass! Behave like a bridge! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
O Lord Most-wise, strengthen us by Your power that we not fear the non-believing world neither when they lash us with whips nor when they insult us with words for Your sake. -- Nikolaj Velimirovic
For since the fabric of the universe is most perfect and the work of a most wise Creator, nothing at all takes place in the universe in which some rule of maximum or minimum does not appear. -- Leonhard Euler
As in our lives so also in our studies, it is most becoming and most wise, so to temper gravity with cheerfulness, that the former may not imbue our minds with melancholy, nor the latter degenerate into licentiousness. -- Pliny the Elder
The Lord, before His Incarnation, let mankind experience all the bitterness of sin, all their powerlessness to eradicate it; and when all longed for a Deliverer, then He appeared, the most wise, all-powerful Physician and Helper. When men hungered and thirsted after righteousness, as it grew weaker, then the everlasting righteousness came. -- John of Kronstadt
As good government is an empire of laws, how shall your laws be made? In a large society, inhabiting an extensive country, it is impossible that the whole should assemble to make laws. The first necessary step, then, is to depute power from the many to a few of the most wise and good. -- John Adams
There is oftentimes a great deal of knowledge where there is but little wisdom to improve that knowledge. It is not the most knowing Christian but the most wise Christian that sees, avoids, and escapes Satan's snares. Knowledge without wisdom is like mettle in a blind horse, which is often an occasion of the rider's fall. -- Thomas Brooks
Who is wise in love, love most, say least. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson
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simple things are the most valuable and only wise people appreciate them". -- Paulo Coelho
We prize books, and they prize them most who are themselves wise. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Numberless arts appear foolish whose secret motives are most wise and weighty. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
It's always wise to raise questions about the most obvious and simple assumption -- C. West Churchman
A wise man ought to realize that health is his most valuable possession. -- Hippocrates
Fools need advice most, but wise men only are the better for it. -- Benjamin Franklin
The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence. -- Herodotus
For surely to be wise is the most desirable thing in all the world. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Some folks as they grow older grow wise but most folks simply grow stubborner. -- Josh Billings
The most hopelessly stupid man is he who is not aware he is wise. -- Isaac Asimov
Children are very wise intuitively; they know who loves them most, and who only pretends. -- Virginia C. Andrews
The most colossal display of wise, inspiring, and humorous metaphors ever exhibited in one place. -- Richard Lederer
Most people are grateful because they are happy. Wise people are happy because they're grateful. -- Roger N. Walsh
I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had. -- Margaret Mead
The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them. -- Paulo Coelho
The wise man applauds he who he thinks most virtuous; the rest of the world applauds the wealthy. -- Samuel Johnson
Most fools think he is the wisest person but the most wise person thinks he is a fool. -- Debasish Mridha
He that winneth souls is wise (Proverbs 11:30) - Those are the best educated ministers, who win the most souls. -- Charles Grandison Finney
Even the wisest men make fools of themselves about women, and even the most foolish women are wise about men -- Theodor Reik
Of all the gifts that wise Providence grants us to make life full and happy, friendship is the most beautiful. -- Epicurus
The wise know too well their weakness to assume infallibility; and he who knows most knows best how little he knows. -- Thomas Jefferson
Each one of us regardless of our situation, is in our search of our most authentic, vital, generous and wise self. -- Elizabeth Lesser
Let's face it, making movies is all risk. Most of the time, batting average-wise, the reward does not outweigh the risk. -- John Slattery
The life of a wise man is most of all extemporaneous, for he lives out of an eternity which includes all time. -- Henry David Thoreau
Songwriters might write cynical, world-wise lyrics and constantly talk about money, but most of us are downright naive when it comes to business. -- Willie Nelson
Those who are held Wise among men and who search the reasons of things, are those who bring the most sorrow on themselves. -- Euripides
After all, China is our largest trading partner. As I said, country-wise, Russia trades the most with China. That is my first point. -- Vladimir Putin
Few things are needed to make a wise man happy; nothing can make a fool content; that is why most men are miserable. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Posting your thoughts on any social media site is like telling you most deeply held secret to the town gossip. Not a wise move. -- John Patrick Hickey
Just as bees make honey from thyme, the strongest and driest of herbs, so do the wise profit from the most difficult of experiences. -- Plato
Convulsions in nature, disorders, prodigies, miracles, though the most opposite of the plan of a wise superintendent, impress mankind with the strongest sentiments of religion. -- David Hume
Was it a friend or foe that spread these lies; Nay, who but infants question in such wise, twas one of my most intimate enemies. -- Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Of neighborhoods, benevolence is the most beautiful. How can the man be considered wise who when he had the choice does not settle in benevolence. -- Confucius
Fortune seldom troubles the wise man. Reason has controlled his greatest and most important affairs, controls them throughout his life, and will continue to control them. -- Epicurus
Most women are wise to the fact that lots of men love a cat-fight, and thus go out of their way not to give them one. -- Julie Burchill
What matters most is what sort of person you are becoming. Wise individuals care only about whom they are today and who they can be tomorrow. -- Epictetus
Make the most of prayer. ... Prayer is the master-weapon. We should be wise if we used it more, and did so with a more specific purpose. -- Charles Spurgeon
Q: When is the perfect time? A: Who can say, but probably somewhere between haste and delay - and it's usually most wise to start today. -- Rasheed Ogunlaru
For the most part we stupidly confound one man with another. The dull distinguish only races or nations, or at most classes, but the wise man, individuals. -- Henry David Thoreau
Whatever be the motives which induce men to write,--whether avarice or fame,--the country becomes more wise and happy in which they most serve for instructors. -- Oliver Goldsmith
The sot drinks, and is drunken: the coward drinks not, and shivers: the wise man, brave and free, drinks, and gives glory to the Most High God. -- Aleister Crowley
The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't being said. The art of reading between the lines is a life long quest of the wise. -- Shannon L. Alder
The prediction I can make with the highest confidence is that the most amazing discoveries will be the ones we are not today wise enough to foresee. -- Carl Sagan
Fame means being respected by everybody, or having some quality that is desired by all men, or by most, or by the good, or by the wise. -- Aristotle
The wise realize that some things are within their control, and most things are not. They learn early on to distinguish between what they can and can't regulate. -- Epictetus
The ultimate in disposing one's troops is to be without ascertainable shape. Then the most penetrating spies cannot pry in nor can the wise lay plans against you. -- Sun Tzu
It is better to be wise, and not to seem so, than to seem wise, and not be so; yet men, for the most part, desire the contrary. -- Plato
Love, who is most beautiful among the immortal gods, the melter of limbs, overwhelms in their hearts the intelligence and wise counsel of all gods and all men. -- Hesiod
I told you that your dream was a difficult one. It's the simple things in life that are the most extraordinary; only wise men are able to understand them. -- Paulo Coelho
In any case, the most lively young people become the best old people, not those who pretend to be as wise as grandfathers while they are still at school. -- Hermann Hesse
Every wise, just, and mild government, by rendering the condition of its subjects easy and secure, will always abound most in people, as well as in commodities and riches. -- David Hume
I think that my God-given physical attributes, big hands, and big feet, the way that I'm built, proportion-wise, just made basketball the most inviting sport for me to play. -- Julius Erving
I've never smoked crack. I've never done most things, drug-wise. But I assume that the experience I had watching Lost is the experience that crack addicts have smoking crack. -- Ginnifer Goodwin

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