#wise

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If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise.


William Blake


#folly #fool #his #persist #wise

But then of course you reach a point where you have to say, I've got to figure out how this book's going to end. Otherwise, you're going to write yourself into so many dead-ends.


Anthony Doerr


#course #end #figure #going #got

To act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the tides. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other.


Helena Petrova Blavatsky


#act #action #comes #depression #enthusiasm

Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.


John Dryden


#different #different way #enlightens #fool #love

Iraq did not spontaneously opt for disarmament. They did it as part of a ceasefire, so they were forced to do it, otherwise the war might have gone on. So the motivation has been very different.


Hans Blix


#ceasefire #did #different #disarmament #forced

Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise... specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine.


Allan Bloom


#aspiration #children #competence #fathers #highest

I had a burning ambition. Otherwise, I wouldn't have accomplished it.


Claire Bloom


#ambition #burning #had #i #otherwise

You have to be very fond of men. Very, very fond. You have to be very fond of them to love them. Otherwise they're simply unbearable.


Marguerite Duras


#love #men #otherwise #simply #them

I AM a male chauvinist. Who's been saying otherwise?


Joe Bob Briggs


#been #i #i am #male #otherwise

Yes, it will go through the disciplines that all puppies go through including house training and puppy walking, then at twelve month old it the training becomes a lot more rigorous which has to be done carefully otherwise you are in danger of stressing the dog.


David Blunkett


#carefully #danger #disciplines #dog #done