I Quotes
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“It is wise to consider a matter carefully before jumping in carelessly.”
“It is wise to direct your anger towards problems - not people; to focus your energies on answers - not excuses.”
“It is wise to forsake the evil of wickedness.”
“It is wise to heed the messages of the creatures who share our world. Like us, they have their usual patterns and, when their behavior is out of the ordinary, it is clear they are speaking to us in the language of spirit. We are, every time, served by responding.”
Source: Old Maggie's Spirit Whispers
“It is wise to keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.”
“It is wise to keep in mind that no success or failure is necessarily final. Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.”
“It is wise to know God forgives sins, if only turn to walk in the light.”
“It is wise to learn; it is God-like to create.”
“It is wise to master your self, but it is wiser to leave a few rogue thoughts, some few doubts, and some loose ends. It is into the wild and unfinished places that we can grow.”
“It is wise to offer your gratitude when you ask and when you receive.”
Source: Crossroads and the Himalayan Crystals
“It is wise to persuade people to do things and make them think it was their own idea.”
“It is wise to remember that too much success in the stock market is in itself an excellent warning.”
“It is wise to remember that you are one of those who can be fooled some of the time.”
“It is wise to seek immortality for time defeats all other ambitions.”
“It is wise to seek knowledge, rather than living in ignorance. I think ignorance should also be labelled as a disease, simply because it is so difficult to cure it.”
“It is wise to turn circumstances to good account.”
Source: Aesop's Fables: Fairy Tales, Folktales Collections
“It is wise to use titles for people in positions of power, higher education, seniority, or maturity, unless otherwise instructed. This may sound old-fashioned, but practicing respectful traditions will earn you points and inevitably make you seem more cultured and sophisticated. This is especially true with older generations.”
Source: The Art of Communication: 8 Ways to Confirm Clarity & Understanding for Positive Impact
“It is wise to withhold one's heart and mind from men who think themselves superior.”
Source: Bacchae of Euripides
“it is wiser to be conventionally immoral than unconventionally moral. It isn't the immorality they object to, but the originality.”
“It is wiser to find out than to suppose.”
Source: Everyone's Mark Twain
“It is wiser to learn from another's pain than your own.”
“It is wiser to love who you are than what you want.”
“It is wiser, I believe, to arrive at theory by way of evidence rather than the other way around.... It is more rewarding, in any case, to assemble the facts first and, in the process of arranging them in narrative form, to discover a theory or a historical generalization emerging of its own accord.”
Source: Practicing History: Selected Essays
“It is with a company as it is with a punch, everything depends upon the ingredients of which it in composed.”
“It is with a pious fraud as with a bad action; it begets a calamitous necessity of going on.”
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“It is with a rush of home-sickness that the thought of death presents itself.... Such sentiment is the eternal stock of all religions, modified indeed by changes of time and place, but indestructible, because its root is so deep in the earth of man's nature. The breath of religious initiators passes over them; a few "rise up with wings as eagles" [Isaiah 40:31], but the broad level of religious life is not permanently changed. Religious progress, like all purely spiritual progress, is confined to a few.”
“It is with a word as with an arrow--once let it loose and it does not return.”
“It is with all these qualities that we must stand before God and intervene on behalf of those who do not have them, as though clothed with someone else's garmentBut even before men we must, with the same love, render them service against their detractors and those who are violent toward them; for this is what Christ did for us.”
“It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries, but is dead to all the pleasures.”
“It is with antiquity as with ancestry, nations are proud of the one, and individuals of the other; but if they are nothing in themselves, that which is their pride ought to be their humiliation.”
Source: Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan
“It is with art as with love: How can a man of the world,with all his distractions, keep the inwardness which an artist must possess if he hopes to attain perfection? That inwardness which the spectator must share if he is to understand the work as the artist wishes and hopes... Believe me, talents are like virtues; either you must love them for their own sake or renounce them altogether. And they are only recognized and rewarded when we have practised them in secret, like a dangerous mystery."”
“It is with artillery that war is made.”
“It is with artworks as it is with wine: it is much better when we do not need either one, when we stick with water, and when out of our own inner fire, the inner sweetness of our own soul, we turn the water over and over again into wine ourselves.”
“It is with blows dealt by public contempt that a husband kills his wife in the nineteenth century; it is by shutting the doors ofall the drawing-rooms in her face.”
Source: The Red and the Black
“It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part.”
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“It is with books as with the fires of our grates, everybody borrows a light from his neighbor to kindle his own, which in turn is communicated to others, and each partakes of all.”
Source: Delphi Collected Works of Voltaire (Illustrated)
“It is with books as with women, where a certain plainness of manner and of dress is more engaging than that glare of paint and airs and apparel which may dazzle the eye, but reaches not the affections.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of David Hume (Illustrated)
“It is with certain good qualities as with the senses; those who have them not can neither appreciate nor comprehend them in others.”
“It is with charity as with money--the more we stand in need of it, the less we have to give away.”
“It is with children that we have the best chance of studying the development of logical knowledge, mathematical knowledge, physical knowledge, and so forth.”
Source: Dialogue with Jean Piaget
“It is with complete allegiance to the cause of racial and social justice and the NAACP that I step aside from the Presidency and pass the baton to my Vice President, Naima Quarles-Burnley.”
“It is with considerable difficulty that I remember the original era of my being”
Source: Frankenstein: Or, The Modern Prometheus
“It is with deep grief I watch the clattering down of the British Empire with all its glories and all the services it has rendered to mankind.”
Source: Churchill speaks: Winston S. Churchill in peace and war : collected speeches, 1897-1963
“It is with disease of the mind, as with those of the body; we are half dead before we understand our disorder, and half cured when we do.”
Source: Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think
“It is with enormous distress that France has just learned of the monstrous attacks there is no other word for it that have just struck the United States of America. In these horrifying circumstances, the entire people of France, and I want to emphasize this, stand by the people of America. They express their friendship and solidarity in this tragedy. Naturally, I want to assure President Bush of my total support. France, as you know, has always condemned and unreservedly condemns terrorism, and considers that terrorism must be combated by all possible means.”
“It is with epigrams as with other inventions; the best ones annoy us because we didn't think of them ourselves.”
“It is with excellence that we'll revolutionize our world, not with success. Look at all those successful people - not a single concern for the downtrodden - not a single act of genuine compassion for those who have nothing - if this is success, then let me remain unsuccessful the rest of my life while struggling to elevate my society.”
Source: Gente Mente Adelante: Prejudice Conquered is World Conquered
“It is with extreme sadness that we hear of the passing of the leader of the world's Catholics, His Holiness Pope John Paul II, who commanded the three paths of religious learning, philosophical thought and poetical and artistic creativity.”
“It is with fiction as with religion: it should present another world, and yet one to which we feel the tie.”
Source: The Confidence-Man: Works of Melville
“It is with fine sentiments that bad literature is made. Descend to the bottom of the well if you wish to see the stars.”