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A very wise old teacher once said: I consider a day's teaching wasted if we do not all have one hearty laugh. — Gilbert Highet

I love reading Warren Buffett's letters, and I love contrasting his words with his actions. He's a very wise guy. — Daniel S. Loeb

My upbringing is why I am the person I am today. I have very wise parents. — Keira Knightley

Standing still is never an option so long as inequities remain embedded in the very fabric of the culture. — Tim Wise

Wise is the man who does not disdain any character and instead, examining him with a searching look, plumbs him to the very main-springs of his being. — Nikolai Gogol

When I can look life in the eyes, grown calm and very coldly wise, life will have given me the truth, and taken in exchange - my youth. — Sara Teasdale

Very few men are wise by their own council, or learned by their own teaching. For he that was only taught by himself, had a fool for a master. — Ben Jonson

The edge of a precipice is a very merciless school; over there you either learn to be serious or you die foolishly! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

If you are truly wise, you love life very deeply. You love the things in your life, transient though they may be. — Frederick Lenz

I had a very wise mother. She always kept books that were my grade level in our house. — Beverly Cleary

Men are never very wise and select in the exercise of a new power. — William Ellery Channing

Irregularity is inherent in our very nature; expecting people to be perfectly wise is as crazy as putting wings on dogs or horns on eagles — Voltaire

As early as the autumn of 1862, I was made very happy by being sent to school. — John Sergeant Wise

It takes a very strong head to keep secrets for years and not go slightly mad. It isn't wise to be advised by anyone slightly mad. — C.P. Snow

People react not very wisely sometimes. — Jeff Sessions

Oh, Vanity of vanities! How wayward the decrees of Fate are; How very weak the very wise, How very small the very great are! — William Makepeace Thackeray

My mother is very wise and intelligent. If I have children and can do half as good a job as she did in keeping me in line, I'll be very happy. — Brandon Lee

It is easy to be intelligent, but it is very difficult to be wise because wisdom comes from experience. — Debasish Mridha

I am determined to do my very best. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Anne laughed and sighed. She felt very old and mature and wise - which showed how young she was. — L.M. Montgomery

That suggests that what you fear most of all is - fear. Very wise, Harry. — J.K. Rowling

However, in many instances we might be very wise to ask what the consequence of removing the consequence might actually be. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

For you, I am like a child. For others, I am very wise. — Santosh Kalwar

Echoes can't read minds. But when you get to know someone very well, you can read their expressions. Pay attention. It will happen to you too. — Dew Pellucid

Children are the keys of Paradise.They alone are good and wise, Because their thoughts, their very lives are prayer. — Richard Henry Stoddard

Indeed, I am very sorry to be right in this instance. I would much rather have been merry than wise. — Jane Austen

It is not wise to give something old and powerful something they care about. And I am very old. — Patricia Briggs

My mother went to university, my father didn't. But they are very educated, very wise people. My father went to the military, so he's worldly. — Chuck D

My mother was a very wise and strong person. — Jennifer Hudson

The intriguing placidity from the slothful pace of a snail is truly very peaceful. Our world is in need of this calmness to pacify itself — Munia Khan

She looked terrible, but very wise. — Sylvia Plath

An old house that had lived its life long ago and so was very quiet and wise and a little mysterious. Also a little austere, but very kind. — L.M. Montgomery

The man who is truly wise knows that he knows very little. — Socrates

Less talk more head right now, huh? — Kanye West

To look wise is quite as good as understanding a thing, and very much easier. — Oscar Wilde

Not even the very wise can see all ends. — J.R.R. Tolkien

A very wise quote is a spectacular waterfall! When you see it, you feel its power! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

The basic principle of spiritual life is that our problems become the very place to discover wisdom and love. — Jack Kornfield

The Navy is very old and very wise. — Rudyard Kipling

I am very conscious that I am not wise at all. — Socrates

Can we try to be wise with each other for a very long time? — Rachel Cohn

I'm very interested in poo. We don't have a very good relationship with poo, and we should have. — Greg Wise

You have to be able to psychologically help your players, support-wise, be in touch with them, so I think managing people is very important. — Phil Jackson

If it be true that a man is rich who wants nothing, a wise man is a very rich man. — Jean De La Bruyere

Mr. Steven Bochco is a very wise man. After a many-monthed nationwide search to find a precocious teenage doctor, he hired me. — Neil Patrick Harris

I'd like to be very wise. — Duffy

Indeed if fish had fish-lore and Wise-fish, it is probable that the business of anglers would be very little hindered. — J.R.R. Tolkien

I'm not very wise to many things. — Charles Manson

John Green is a very handsome, intelligent, and wise man. He smells really weird though. — Hank Green

Everyone writes with hand, but very few can write with heart — Munia Khan

Children are very wise
intuitively; they know who loves them most, and who only pretends. — V.C. Andrews

An honest and wise man is always a very simple man. — Debasish Mridha

Wise man's mind is always very clear. When asked anything, he gives the answer directly almost without any thinking! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

It takes the very wisest person there is to know when to talk, and when to keep still. — Gene Stratton-Porter

Our lady the Common Law is a very wise old lady though she still has something to learn in telling what she knows. — Frederick Pollock

Generally a wise actor will be very careful about the person to whom he gives that power. — William Mapother

Wise parents take simple actions early on so they can avoid having to take very painful ones later. — Jim Fay

When you talk to the half-wise, twaddle; when you talk to the ignorant, brag; when you talk to the sagacious, look very humble and ask their opinion. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Leverage is a term that makes us sound very sophisticated and wise when we use it. Let's analyze what it really means. — Celso Cukierkorn

The nuclear family doesn't work. It's very destructive; it grew out of selfishness. — Greg Wise

I did theatre in the U.S. because there, content-wise, it's very light. In India, theatre tends to get preachy. — Vir Das

Ask a woman's advice, and whatever she advises, Do the very reverse and you're sure to be wise. — Thomas Moore

That was either very wise or very stupid, she was not sure which. — George R R Martin

What you fear most of all is - fear. Very wise... — J.K. Rowling

Living is very serious, very real. It is also always a game. If we are wise, it is very real, very terrible, and very lovely, and a good deal of fun. — Eileen Wilks

Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing. — Alexander Pope

A very wise person once told me marriage is hard, that you have to keep fighting for it everyday. — Liz Fenton

Career-wise, I feel very lucky to have always been able to follow my creative path. — Alison Jackson

In the West the wise are usually thought of as leaders. In the East, the wise are very often though of as followers. — Frederick Lenz

The true teacher of love is the heart. The heart is very, very wise. It makes mistakes from time to time, but it has a wisdom all of its own. — Frederick Lenz

My body is very wise; it knows how to heal itself. — Louise Hay

Cats always seem so very wise, when staring with their half-closed eyes. Can they be thinking, I'll be nice, and maybe she will feed me twice? — Bette Midler

I didn't know how I felt, except confused and bewildered, and very, very young. And the world all about us was wise, and old, so old. — V.C. Andrews

We must have passed through life unobservantly, if we have never perceived that a man is very much himself what he thinks of others. — Frederick William Faber

God in his infinite wisdom
Did not make me very wise-
So when my actions are stupid
They hardly take God by surprise. — Langston Hughes

A very wise author once said that a writer writes for himself, and then publishes for money. I write for myself and publish just for the reader. — Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Every wise man lives in an observatory. — Augustus William Hare

To think to be wise alone is a very great folly. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Don't You Get it? This very second you could be doing something you love and dream about doing. So do it! Now! — Anonymous

Anything can happen; this is the very rule of this universe! The best defence against this rule is this: Don't panic! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

That was my choice at that time, and I still say Nixon was a great president. A very beautiful and wise man. — Solomon Burke

The American people may not be the best-educated, but they're very wise at heart. — Norman Lear

Wise men read very sharply all of your private history in your look and gait and behavior. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our greatest stupidities may be very wise. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

I didn't lead a very wise life, myself, but it was a full one and a grown-up one. You come of age very quickly through shipwreck and disaster. — Philip Dunne

Mat, a very wise woman once told me that time would heal my wounds, that time smoothed everything over. I didn't believe her. Only — Robert Jordan

A wise person will be slow to show their anger ...
But very quick and diligent to show love and kindness to all. — Timothy Pina

(Annabeth says most of that salt water is in my head. Very funny, Wise Girl.) Anyway, — Rick Riordan

Very few of us playing a murderer will actually have killed someone. — Greg Wise

You can be very wild and still be very wise. — Yoko Ono

sorrow not only twists the heart, but also dims the eyes. Only the very wise can see good in the earth when they are grieving. — Sue Harrison

Tony Curtis was a joy to work with. He had a curious innocence that is very young and wise at the same time. — Nicolas Roeg

Just because a woman's got no teeth doesn't mean she's wise. It might just mean she's been stupid for a very long time. — Terry Pratchett

Acting is not my primary drive in life, although I'd be a very unhealthy person without it. — Greg Wise