William Shakespeare Quotes, Wise Quotes

The Foole doth thinke he is wise, but the wiseman knowes himselfe to be a Foole.

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the wise man should always follow the roads that have been trodden by the great, and imitate those who have most excelled, so that if he cannot reach their perfection, he may at least acquire something of its savour.

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Knowledge is merely brilliance in organization of ideas and not wisdom. The truly wise person goes beyond knowledge.

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To admonish your brother in private is to advise him and improve him. But to admonish him publicly is to disgrace and shame him.

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The world has been made by fools that wise men may live in it.

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The wise man does not grow old, but ripens.

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The wise man never loses his temper.

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Gratitude is the single greatest treasure I will take with me from this experience.

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Placed on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise and rudely great... He hangs between; in doubt to act or rest; In doubt to deem himself a god, or beast; In doubt his mind or body to prefer; Born to die, and reasoning but to err.

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And my haunting instinct that somehow good was not merely a tool to be used, but a relic to be guarded, like the goods from Crusoe's ship--even that had been the wild whisper of something originally wise, for, according to Christianity, we were indeed the survivors of a wreck, the crew of a golden ship that had gone down before the beginning of the world.

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There are three things against which the wise man guards: lust when young, quarrels when strong, and covetousness when old.

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Fools make researches and wise men exploit them.

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The man who is truly good and wise will bear with dignity whatever fortune sends, and will always make the best of his circumstances.

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If you can wait and not be tired of waiting, or being lied about, don't deal in lies. Or being hated, don't give way to hating, and yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise.

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Even if a fool lived with a wise man all his life, he would still not recognise the truth, like a wooden spoon cannot recognise the flavour of the soup.

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And he is oft the wisest manWho is not wise at all.

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Life is a festival only to the wise. Seen from the nook and chimneyside of prudence, it wears a ragged and dangerous front.

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Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.

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Compassion is the basis of morality.

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Realizing the doctrine of dependent-arising, the wise do not at all partake of extreme views

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