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Francis Bacon

Philosopher

Wise sayings are not only for ornament, but for action and business, having a point or edge, whereby knots in business are pierced and discovered.
Actions - Inspiration - Wisdom
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Martin Luther

Theologian, Professor, Monk

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.
Devil - Wisdom
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Benjamin Franklin

Polymath, Founding Father of the United States

What you would seem to be, be really.
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Miguel de Cervantes

Writer

Now, blessings light on him that first invented sleep!ГЉ It covers a man all over, thoughts and all, like a cloak; it is meat for the hungry, drink for the thirsty, heat for the cold, and cold for the hot.ГЉ It is the current coin that purchases all the pleasures of the world cheap, and the balance that sets the king and the shepherd, the fool and the wise man, even.
Drinking - Fools - Man - Sleeping - Wisdom
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Mahatma Gandhi

Lawyer, Politician, Civil Rights Activist

You don't know who is important to you until you actually lose them.
Loss - Sadness - Wisdom
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Horace

Poet, Senator, Soldier

In peace, a wise man makes preparations for war.
Man - Wisdom
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Aristotle

Philosopher

The wise man knows of all things, as far as possible, although he has no knowledge of each of them in detail
Man - Wisdom
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William Shakespeare

Poet, Playwright, Actor

All places that the eye of heaven visits Are to a wise man ports and happy havens. Teach thy necessity to reason thus; There is no virtue like necessity.
Haven - Heavens - Man - Teaching - Wisdom
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J. R. R. Tolkien

Writer, Poet, Philologist

All the same, I should like it all plain and clear," said he obstinately, putting on his business manner (usually reserved for people who tried to borrow money off him), and doing his best to appear wise and prudent and professional and live up to Gandalf's recommendation. "Also I should like to know about risks, out-of-pocket expenses, time required and remuneration, and so forth"--by which he meant: "What am I going to get out of it ? and am I going to come back alive?
Recommendation - Wisdom
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Buddha

Founder of Buddhism

Joy comes not through possession or ownership but through a wise and loving heart.
Buddhism - Happiness - Joy - Love - Ownership - Philosophy - Possession - Simple - Wisdom
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Maya Angelou

Poet, Singer, Writer, Civil Rights Activist

Time itself is an individual gift. It is wise to cherish it carefully and give it away generously.
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Oprah Winfrey

Media Executive, Actress, Talk Show Host, TV Producer

The essential question is not, "How busy are you?" but "What are you busy at?"
Essence - Priority - Wisdom
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Marilyn Monroe

Actress, Model, Singer

A wise girl knows her limits, a smart girl knows that she has none.
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J. R. R. Tolkien

Writer, Poet, Philologist

Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends. I have not much hope that Gollum can be cured before he dies, but there is a chance of it. And he is bound up with the fate of the Ring. My heart tells me that he has some part to play yet, for good or ill, before the end; and when that comes, the pity of Bilbo may rule the fate of many - yours not least.
Boundaries - Deal - Death - End - Illness - Playing - Wisdom
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Thomas Jefferson

Former President of the United States

It is important to strengthen the State governments; and as this cannot be done by any change in the Federal Constitution (for the preservation of that is all we need contend for), it must be done by the States themselves, erecting such barriers at the constitutional line as cannot be surmounted either by themselves or by the General Government. The only barrier in their power is a wise government. A weak one will lose ground in every contest.
Loss - State - Weakness - Wisdom
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Franklin D. Roosevelt

Former President of the United States

Wise and prudent men and intelligent conservatives have long known that in a changing world worthy institutions can be conserved only by adjusting them to the changing time.
Intelligence - Knowledge - Man - Wisdom - Worth
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John Calvin

Theologian, Pastor, Reformer

Seeing God hath thus set us at liberty, what rashness it is for worms of the earth to make new laws; as though God had not been wise enough.
Earth - Wisdom
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John Adams

Former President of the United States

Laws for the liberal education of youth, especially of the lower class of people, are so extremely wise and useful, that, to a humane and generous mind, no expense for this purpose would be thought extravagant.
Education - Generosity - Mindset - Wisdom
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Henry David Thoreau

Essayist, Poet, Philosopher, Critic, Historian

A man receives only what he is ready to receive... The phenomenon or fact that cannot in any wise be linked with the rest of what he has observed, he does not observe.
Man - Phenomena - Wisdom
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Oprah Winfrey

Media Executive, Actress, Talk Show Host, TV Producer

When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid.
Feelings - Insight - Wisdom
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Albert Einstein

Theoretical Physicist

Lasting harmony with a woman (was) an undertaking in which I twice failed rather disgracefully.
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Francis Scott Fitzgerald

Writer

Once one is caught up into the material world not one person in ten thousand finds the time to form literary taste, to examine the validity of philosophic concepts for himself, or to form what, for lack of a better phrase, I might call the wise and tragic sense of life.
Materialism - Philosophy - Taste - Valid - Wisdom - World
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Walt Whitman

Poet, Essayist, Journalist

I am of old and young, of the foolish as much as the wise, Regardless of others, ever regardful of others, Maternal as well as paternal, a child as well as a man, Stuffed with the stuff that is course, and stuffed with the stuff that is fine.
Foolishness - Man - Wellness - Wisdom
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William Shakespeare

Poet, Playwright, Actor

When clouds are seen wise men put on their cloaks; When great leaves fall then winter is at hand.
Fall - Man - Wisdom
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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Essayist, Lecturer, Philosopher, Poet

Wisdom is like electricity. There is no permanently wise man, but men capable of wisdom, who, being put into certain company, or other favorable conditions, become wise for a short time, as glasses rubbed acquire electric power for a while.
Acquiring - Certainty - Conditioning - Electricity - Man - Wisdom
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Aesop

Fabulist, Storyteller

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.
Amusement - Difficulty - Life - Man - Wisdom
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Winston Churchill

Former Prime Minister of the U.K.

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

Philosopher, Politician

Being in humaneness is good. If we select other goodness and thus are far apart from humaneness, how can we be the wise?
Good - Selecting - Wisdom
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Aesop

Fabulist, Storyteller

Wise men say nothing in dangerous times
Danger - Life - Man - Wisdom
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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Essayist, Lecturer, Philosopher, Poet

Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.
State - Wisdom
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Confucius

Philosopher, Politician

The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their proper name.
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Poet, Novelist, Playwright, Natural Philosopher, Diplomat, Civil Servant

The follies of the wise man are known to himself, but hidden from the world.
Fools - Knowledge - Man - Wisdom
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