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The natural way of ensuring that the past continues to live in the present and to inform the future is to write it down.
Benevolent, enlightened, wise dictators are the most efficient form of government. The problem is what comes afterwards.
Let's face it, making movies is all risk. Most of the time, batting average-wise, the reward does not outweigh the risk.
Speech was given to the ordinary sort of men, whereby to communicate their mind; but to wise men, whereby to conceal it.
Everyone needs a spiritual guide: a minister, rabbi, counselor, wise friend, or therapist. My own wise friend is my dog.
Still anyone who trusts a serpent deserves its bite. The wise see a creature for what it is, not what it says it may be.
The Bible is the book that makes fools of the wise of this world; it is only understood by the plain and simple hearted.
Where have all the good men gone, and where are all the gods? Where's the street-wise Hercules, to fight the rising odds?
Self-esteem comes from being able to define the world in your own terms and refusing to abide by the judgments of others.
We respect our elders. There is wisdom that comes from experience, and I am not going to stop learning from wise counsel.
On their return from a trip, it is wise to see friends promptly, before they've had time to get their pictures developed.
She was not too young to be wise, but she was too young to know that wisdom shouldn't be spoken aloud when you are happy.
There are a lot of women out there who are doing crazy things behind closed doors sexual-wise and are afraid to admit it.
We shall have to work like lions, keeping the ideal before us, without caring whether "the wise ones praise or blame us".
Women desire six things: They want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous, obedient to wife, and lively in bed.
If by leaving a small pleasure one sees a great pleasure, let a wise man leave the small pleasure, and look to the great.
The best way to obtain truth and wisdom is not to ask from books, but to go to God in prayer, and obtain divine teaching.
Libraries keep the records on behalf of all humanity. the unique and the absurd, the wise and the fragments of stupidity.
As for omens, there is no such thing as an omen. Destiny does not send us heralds. She is too wise or too cruel for that.
Now I got kids and I'm more wise now. Life means more to me than having fun. I'm more calm, more wise, and more cautious.
We want a state wise in its contemplation - just in its actions - and moderate in the reach of government into our lives.
Letting Go: A Little Bit at a Time is filled with big ideas that just might change your life. Wise, witty, and important.
When the wise man opens his mouth, the beauties of his soul present themselves to the view, like the statues in a temple.
Even the severed branch grows again, and the sunken moon returns: wise men who ponder this are not troubled in adversity.
I long to be in the midst of the children, and have more pleasure in their little follies than in the wisdom of the wise.
He is good and wise who always speaks the truth, acts on the dictates of virtue, and tries to make others good and happy.
Wise men are not wise at all hours, and will speak five times from their taste or their humor, to once from their reason.
The gate is small because truth guards the entrance. The way is narrow because the Lord protects us with wise boundaries.
Be wise today; 'tis madness to defer. Next day the fatal precedent will plead; thus on, til wisdom is pushed our of life.
Sometimes Allah punishes and sometimes men have to do it, and it is a wise man who knows if it's Allah's turn or his own.
'Without the help of mathematics,' the wise man continued, 'the art could not advance and all the sciences would perish.'
Test scores and measures of achievement tell you where a student is, but they don't tell you where a student could end up.
All things bright and beautiful, All creatures great and small, All things wise and wonderful, The Lord God made them all.
Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct form ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.
Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
If you young fellows were wise, the devil couldn't do anything to you, but since you aren't wise, you need us who are old.
It might not be wise for a sometime political journalist to admit this, but the 2016 campaign doesn't seem like fun to me.
To meet everything and everyone through stillness instead of mental noise is the greatest gift you can offer the universe.
Those who are held Wise among men and who search the reasons of things, are those who bring the most sorrow on themselves.
The person who has a firm trust in the Supreme Being is powerful in his power, wise by his wisdom, happy by his happiness.
there is nothing so easy as to be wise for others; a species of prodigality, by-the-by - for such wisdom is wholly wasted.
When the accumulation of wealth is no longer of high social importance, there will be great changes in the code of morals.
Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.
The fool who recognizes his foolishness, is a wise man. But the fool who believes himself a wise man, he really is a fool.
We do not need an atomic bomb. The Iranian nation is wise. It won't build two atomic bombs while you have 20,000 warheads.
Women have more energy, for a greater number of years, than men. Men, as they age, become either more wise or more stupid.
The wise man bridges the gap by laying out the path by means of which he can get from where he is to where he wants to go.
Let him be wise, or let me be blind; don't let me, she hoped concretely, don't let me know too surely what he thinks of me.
It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.
A wise man once said, 'Instead of crying, I keep on trying.' And that wise man is me, because I just made that up. I think.