#wise

The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people. ↗

— Geoffrey Chaucer

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For generations, even many otherwise decent white Southerners learned to despise black people. ↗

— Linda Chavez

#decent #despise #even #generations #learned

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. ↗

— Agatha Christie

#corner #crawl #dogs #into #lick

The highest point of philosophy is to be both wise and simple; this is the angelic life. ↗

— John Chrysostom

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When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise. ↗

— Winston Churchill

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You have to really be courageous about your instincts and your ideas. Otherwise you'll just knuckle under, and things that might have been memorable will be lost. ↗

— Francis Ford Coppola

#been #courageous #ideas #instincts #just

No matter how much Bill Gates may claim otherwise, he missed the Internet, like a barreling freight train that he didn't hear or see coming. ↗

— Jim Clark

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Everything you listen to when you are 17 should be embarrassing, otherwise you are way too cool. ↗

— Jessica Brown Findlay

#embarrassing #everything #listen #otherwise #should

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth. ↗

— Ludwig Borne

#illusion #losing #makes #than #truth

We were young, we were merry, we were very, very wise, And the door stood open at our feast, When there passed us a woman with the West in her eyes, And a man with his back to the East. ↗

— Mary Elizabeth Coleridge

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