Edgar Allan Poe Quotes, Wise Quotes, Wisdom Quotes

I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.

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I'm considered wise, and sometimes I see myself as knowing. Most of the time, I see myself as wanting to know. And I see myself as a very interested person. I've never been bored in my life.

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It's catastrophies which turn wise and strong people into philosophers.

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A wise man hears one word and understands two.

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The skilful employer of men will employ the wise man, the brave man, the covetous man, and the stupid man.

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My imperfections and failures are as much a blessing from God as my successes and my talents and I lay them both at his feet.

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The wise want love; and those who love want wisdom.

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The believer is happy. The doubter is wise.

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Where does a wise man kick a pebble? On the beach. Where does a wise man hide a leaf? In the forest.

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To be brave in misfortune is to be worthy of manhood; to be wise in misfortune is to conquer fate.

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When clouds are seen wise men put on their cloaks; When great leaves fall then winter is at hand.

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The wise find pleasure in water; the virtuous find pleasure in hills. The wise are active; the virtuous are tranquil. The wise are joyful; the virtuous are long-lived.

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Fools make researches and wise men exploit them - that is our earthly way of dealing with the question, and we thank Heaven for an assumed abundance of financially impotent and sufficiently ingenious fools.

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... No photograph ever was good, yet, of anybody - hunger and thirst and utter wretchedness overtake the outlaw who invented it! It transforms into desperadoes the weakest of men; depicts sinless innocence upon the pictured faces of ruffians; gives the wise man the stupid leer of a fool, and the fool an expression of more than earthly wisdom.

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Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

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Angry people are not always wise.

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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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But till all graces be in one woman, one woman shall not come in my grace. Rich she shall be, that's certain; wise, or I'll none; virtuous, or I'll never cheapen her; fair, or I'll never look on her; mild, or come not near me; noble, or not I for an angel; of good discourse, and excellent musician and her hair shall be of what colour it shall please God.

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It is foolish to try to imitate the skills of others.

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Do the wise thing and the kind thing too, and make the best of us and not the worst.

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