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“A wise doctor does not mutter incantations over a sore that needs the knife.”
Sophocles
“Wise thinkers prevail everywhere.”
Sophocles
“A great artist is a great man in a great child.”
Victor Hugo
“The wise man does not grow old, but ripens.”
Victor Hugo
“It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.”
Victor Hugo
“I love all men who think, even those who think otherwise than myself.”
Victor Hugo
“Evil is whatever distracts.”
Franz Kafka
“At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time.”
Ovid
“He who would not be idle, let him fall in love.”
Ovid
“A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
William Shakespeare
“It is a wise father that knows his own child.”
William Shakespeare
“There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.”
William Shakespeare
“Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.”
William Shakespeare
“Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.”
William Shakespeare
“Love to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined. Lawless, winged, and unconfined, and breaks all chains from every mind.”
William Shakespeare
“In time we hate that which we often fear.”
William Shakespeare
“The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief.”
William Shakespeare
“Suit the action to the word, the word to the action.”
William Shakespeare
“Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise.”
William Shakespeare
“How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!”
William Shakespeare
“When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.”
William Shakespeare
“The valiant never taste of death but once.”
William Shakespeare
“Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.”
William Shakespeare
“There's place and means for every man alive.”
William Shakespeare
“How well he's read, to reason against reading!”
William Shakespeare
“Time and the hour run through the roughest day.”
William Shakespeare
“Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.”
Jean de La Fontaine
“Nothing is as dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is to be preferred.”
Jean de La Fontaine
“I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security. Defense of our resources is just as important as defense abroad. Otherwise what is there to defend?”
Robert Redford
“The challenge is what was making it exciting. You don't want to do anything that's too easy or that you know that you can pull off, otherwise it's really not worth doing.”
Robert Rodriguez
