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My father and he had one of those English friendships
which begins by avoiding the intimacies
and eventually eliminates speech altogether.
- Jorge Luis Borges
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It is a wise father that knows his own child.
- William Shakespeare
So your father, or your mother,
never thought you were good enough - SO WHAT?
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Dear Father in heaven, I'm not a praying man,
but if you're up there and you can hear me ...
show me the way... show me the way.
- It's a Wonderful Life (1946 movie)
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It doesn't matter who my father was.
It matters who I remember he was.
- Anne Sexton
When a father gives to his son, both laugh;
when a son gives to his father, both cry.
- William Shakespeare
The most important thing a father
can do for his children
is to love their mother.
- Henry Ward Beecher
A man cannot speak to his son, but as a father;
to his wife, but as a husband;
to his enemy, but upon terms:
whereas a friend may speak, as the case requires,
and not as it sorteth with the person.
- Francis Bacon
My father always used to say that when you die,
if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.
- Lee Iacocca
My father considered a walk among the mountains
as the equivalent of churchgoing.
- Aldous Huxley
When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant
I could hardly stand to have the old man around.
But when I got to be 21, I was astonished
at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
- Mark Twain
He who knows others is wise.
He who knows himself is enlightened.
- Lao Tzu 
See no evil, Hear no evil, Speak no evil.
- Japanese pictorial maxim (the Three Wise Monkeys)
Excellence is the result of
caring more than others think wise,
risking more than other's think safe,
dreaming more than others think practical,
and expecting more than others think possible.
- Anonymous
The wise man does not lay up his own treasures.
The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.
- Lao Tzu
The wise man in the storm prays God,
not for safety from danger,
but for deliverance from fear.
It is the storm within which endangers him,
not the storm without.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Everyone is wise, until he speaks.
- Irish proverb
All this worldly wisdom was once
the unamiable heresy of some wise man.
- Henry David Thoreau
A wise one said, "We are most like God when we forgive."
It is easy for us to blame, but hard for us to forgive.
Yet that is what we are called upon to do -
to forgive everyone for everything.
And the reward?
In this life, the reward for forgiveness
is your own happiness.
Unconditional universal forgiveness is
the key to your own happiness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
He is a wise man who does not grieve
for the things which he has not,
but rejoices for those which he has.
- Epictetus
A wise man hears one word and understands two.
- Yiddish Proverb
An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere,
while the pessimist sees only the red stoplight.
The truly wise person is colorblind.
- Albert Schweitzer
A wise man will make haste to forgive,
because he knows the true value of time,
and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.
- Samuel Johnson
Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
- Albert Einstein
Early to bed and early to rise,
makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
- Benjamin Franklin
Wise men put their trust in ideas
and not in circumstances
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Take risks: if you win, you will be happy;
if you lose, you will be wise.
- Anonymous
I have always been regretting that
I was not as wise as the day I was born.
- Henry David Thoreau
Every day is a new beginning -
a day for a new plan and new action.
If today, in conscious awareness, you choose
the same plan as yesterday, you are wise.
If you choose a different plan, you are equally wise.
Whatever you choose, choose with intention.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.
- Publilius Syrus
Thoughtful people seldom share exactly the same opinion -
the same point-of-view.
The wise ones understand that they know nothing -
for virtually none of our experience is truly factual -
and they graciously honor all other opinions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Before beginning a Hunt, it is wise to ask someone
what you are looking for before you begin looking for it.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
A wise man can learn more from a foolish question
than a fool can learn from a wise answer.
- Bruce Lee
It is always wise to look ahead,
but difficult to look further than you can see.
- Winston Churchill
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance;
the wise grows it under his feet.
- J. Robert Oppenheimer
If you wish to succeed in life,
make perseverance your bosom friend,
experience your wise counselor,
caution your elder brother,
and hope your guardian genius.
- Joseph Addison
The wise man looks into space,
and does not regard the small as too little,
nor the great as too much;
for he knows that there is no limit to dimensions.
- Lao Tzu
No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is,
he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.
- Helen Keller
You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers.
You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
- Naguib Mahfouz
I was wise enough to never grow up
while fooling most people into believing I had.
- Margaret Mead
It is noted that a stopped clock is correct twice each day.
In a similar manner, a person who is unchanging appears wise occasionally.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The wise man looks back into the past,
and does not grieve over what is far off,
nor rejoice over what is near;
for he knows that time is without end.
- Lao Tzu
It cannot be wisdom to assert the truth of one faith over another.
In our troubled world so full of contradictions,
the wise person makes justice his guide and learns from all.
- Akbar the Great (1542-1605)
Self-pity is our worst enemy
and if we yield to it,
we can never do anything wise in this world.
- Helen Keller
The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man
are those of bearing and forbearing.
- Epictetus
The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought,
sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve.
- The Buddha
A wise girl kisses but doesn't love,
listens but doesn't believe,
and leaves before she is left.
- Marilyn Monroe
It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures,
but the foolish to be a slave to them.
- Epictetus
A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard
A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer
To know yet to think that one does not know is best;
Not to know yet to think that one knows
will lead to difficulty.
- Lao Tzu
Forgiveness is the needle that knows how to mend.
- Jewel
The heart knows nothing of the past,
nothing of the future;
it knows only of the present.
- Osho
Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth
until the hour of separation.
- Khalil Gibran
Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth,
and if a man does not know what a thing is,
it is at least an increase in knowledge
if he knows what it is not.
- Carl Jung
Courage is the art of being the only one
who knows you're scared to death.
- Earl Wilson
No one knows what he can do until he tries.
- Publilius Syrus
He who knows himself is enlightened.
- Lao Tzu
Your friend is the man who knows all about you,
and still likes you.
- Elbert Hubbard
He who knows that enough is enough
will always have enough.
- Lao Tzu
It is impossible to begin to learn
that which one thinks one already knows.
- Epictetus
He who knows, does not speak.
He who speaks, does not know.
- Lao Tzu
The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.
- The Buddha
Without stirring abroad,
One can know the whole world;
Without looking out of the window,
One can see the way of heaven.
The further one goes, The less one knows.
- Lao Tzu
You are perfect. You are complete.
Your inner voice always knows what to do,
but it is a quiet voice.
You can only hear the whisperings of your inner voice -
your inner compass - when you turn down the volume
of your fears, your regrets, your resentments,
and the fear-based advice
your neighbors are so willing to give you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
- Jerome Cummings
He who knows best knows how little he knows.
- Thomas Jefferson
Without deep reflection,
one knows from daily life
that one exists for other people.
- Albert Einstein
A warrior acts as if he knows what he is doing,
when in effect he knows nothing.
- Carlos Castaneda
A friend knows the song in my heart
and sings it to me when my memory fails.
- Donna Roberts
The only fool bigger than the person who knows it all
is the person who argues with him.
- Stanislaw Jerszy Lec
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