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“It is never wise to try to appear to be more clever than you are. It is sometimes wise to appear slightly less so.”

Trying Sometimes Wisdom Wise Clever

Author:William Whitelaw, 1st Viscount Whitelaw

“Sometimes Allah punishes and sometimes men have to do it, and it is a wise man who knows if it's Allah's turn or his own.”

Ifs Knows Men Sometimes Turns Wise

Book:White Teeth

Source: White Teeth

“Wouldn't it be wonderful to have a wise and intuitive counselor available 24/7? You're in luck-you already have one. Your body! Our bodies carry ancient wisdom. We literally live within a temple of intuitive and instinctive wisdom. Sometimes we pay attention and access body wisdom; but unfortunately, the aphorism "Mrs. Smith lived a short distance from her body" is sadly true for many of us.”

Sometimes Body Pay Attention Wise Wonderful Luck Distance Ancient Available Access Your Body Pay Attention Temples Aphorism Intuitive Counselor Ancient Wisdom

Author:Sue Thoele

“Because sometimes when someone is telling you something really important, it’s best to just let there be silence, to really think about what they’re saying. A lot of times people think they have to say something all insightful or wise or something to try and make the person feel better. But really, sometimes silence is best.”

People Thinking Feels Trying Persons Important Sometimes Silence Wise Insightful Feel Better Silence Is

Book:The Thing About the Truth

Source: The Thing About the Truth

“Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.”

People Sometimes Wisdom Wise Stupid Fool Foolish Likes Folly Foolishness Wise People Fools And Foolishness Fools And Wise Wise Counsel

Book:The Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (20+ Books)

Source: The Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (20+ Books)

“Sometimes when everything has totally apart, the meaningless preoccupations that so often dominate our lives simply fall away. And what is left is who we really are, and who we really are is compassionate and intelligent and wise.”

Sometimes Fall Left Wise Our Lives Intelligent Compassionate Meaningless Preoccupation

Author:Marianne Williamson

“A man must know when to retreat from a woman, but a wise man knows that sometimes he must stand and face her.”

Knows Men Sometimes Faces Wise Retreat Wheel Of Time

Book:Lord of Chaos: Book Six of 'The Wheel of Time'

Source: Lord of Chaos: Book Six of 'The Wheel of Time'

“A wise man who cultivates wisdom may sometimes drown in it.”

Men May Sometimes Wisdom Wise

Book:Taiko: An Epic Novel of War and Glory in Feudal Japan

Source: Taiko: An Epic Novel of War and Glory in Feudal Japan

“Of what's to come the wise perceive things about to happen. Sometimes during moments of intense study their hearing's troubled: the hidden sound of things approaching reaches them, and they listen reverently, while in the street outside the people hear nothing whatsoever.”

People Sometimes Moments Happens Sound Study Wise Streets Hearing Intense Perceive

Author:C.P. Cavafy

“If you suddenly and unexpectedly feel joy, don't hesitate. Give in to it. There are plenty of lives and whole towns destroyed or about to be. We are not wise, and not very often kind. And much can never be redeemed. Still life has some possibility left. Perhaps this is its way of fighting back, that sometimes something happened better than all the riches or power in the world. It could be anything, but very likely you notice it in the instant when love begins. Anyway, that's often the case. Anyway, whatever it is, don't be afraid of its plenty. Joy is not made to be a crumb.”

Source: Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver

“Titles and mottoes to books are like escutcheons and dignities in the hands of a king. The wise sometimes condescend to accept of them; but none but a fool would imagine them of any real importance. We ought to depend upon intrinsic merit, and not the slender helps of the title.”

Book Real Sometimes Helping Hands Accepting Wise Imagine Fool Depends Ought Kings Dignity Importance Titles Merit Slender

Book:Essays and The Bee

Source: Essays and The Bee

“My editor and I remain very disciplined. It's just sometimes when you're making a film, you get into the cutting room and you see a scene that's slowing you down in a certain section, but if you remove that scene then, emotionally or story-wise, another scene a half-hour later won't have the same impact. You just get stuck with it.”

Ifs Sometimes Stories Film Certain Hours Rooms Half Wise Cutting Scene Impact Stuck Remove Editors Sections Half Hours Slowing

Author:Alexander Payne

“Indeed the worthy housewife was of such a capricious nature, that she not only attained a higher pitch of genius than Macbeth, in respect of her ability to be wise, amazed, temperate and furious, loyal and neutral in an instant, but would sometimes ring the changes backwards and forwards on all possible moods and flights in one short quarter of an hour; performing, as it were, a kind of triple bob major on the peal of instruments in the female belfry, with a skilfulness and rapidity of execution that astonished all who heard her.”

“Sometimes it is not wise to make a second plan; it diminishes the power of the first plan! In risky paths, make only one plan; this will increase the possibility of success! On the edge of a precipice, if your second plan is a parachute on your back, your possibility of falling will increase! When you have nothing to trust, you will be safer, because you have no right to make any mistake!”

Ifs Firsts Sometimes Success Fall Mistake Path Wise Plans Possibility Increase Edges Diminish Precipice Parachutes

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“Sometimes in life it is most wise to behave like a bridge: Don't judge the person who comes to you; let him come and pass! Behave like a bridge!”

Life Persons Sometimes Wise Judging Bridges Behave Sometimes In Life Most Wise

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“You never really know what the director has got in his mind as far as the scene visually and art direction wise, etc. Even if you do, sometimes there's a side of things that don't necessarily gel the way people intend. So there a bit of a mystical entity, film.”

People Ifs Knows Way Mind Art Sometimes Film Bits Sides Wise Scene Directors Etc Entity Mystical Art Direction

Author:Guy Pearce

“Sometimes what happens I think is that actors finish a movie and they go, oh my god, I'm never going to work again, even big huge actors, and so they'll take something thinking that something else will never come along. But for me, I freak out - because I'm a bit of a workaholic - the second I finish a movie going oh my god, what am I going to do, but I can start writing the next day so it doesn't force me to make a bad choice acting-wise.”

Thinking Writing I Can Sometimes Bigs Happens Choices Next Actors Force Bits Acting Wise Huge Freak Next Day Going To Work Workaholic Bad Choices

Author:Jonah Hill

“Be not penny-wise. Riches have wings. Sometimes they fly away of themselves, and sometimes they must be set flying to bring in more.”

Sometimes Money Wise Wings Riches Flying Pennies Fly Away

Book:The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, Lord High Chancellor of England ...: With Several Additional Pieces, Never Before Printed in Any Edition of His Works. To which is Prefixed, a New Life of the Author

Source: The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, Lord High Chancellor of England ...: With Several Additional Pieces, Never Before Printed in Any Edition of His Works. To which is Prefixed, a New Life of the Author

“I think people discredit teenagers and how wise they can be. Sometimes I meet teenagers who are much wiser than many adults I've met, because they haven't let any insecurities or doubts about themselves get in the way of their thoughts.”

People Thinking Way Sometimes Doubt Wise Havens Mets Adults Teenager Insecurity Wiser Discredit

Author:Amandla Stenberg

“There's only one proper way a song should go, but you've got to be patient enough to let them come together time wise. Sometimes it's lightning in a bottle and you got the song. But oftentimes it shows up.”

Way Should Sometimes Enough Shows Together Song Wise Patient Bottles Lightning Be Patient

Author:Ben Harper

“No man is so foolish but may give another good counsel sometimes; and no man is so wise, but may easily err, if he will take no others counsel but his own. But very few men are wise by their own counsel; or learned by their own teaching. For he that was only taught by himself had a fool to his master.”

Ifs Men Giving May Sometimes Wise Teaching Taught Masters Fool Foolish

Book:The Works of Ben Jonson

Source: The Works of Ben Jonson

“Prayer is request. The essence of request, as distinct from compulsion, is that it may or may not be granted. And if an infinitely wise Being listens to the requests of finite and foolish creatures, of course He will sometimes grant and sometimes refuse them.”

Ifs May Sometimes Courses Prayer Wise Creatures Essence Refuse Foolish Granted Grants Finite Compulsion Request

Book:Joyful Christian

Source: Joyful Christian

“I would say, as far as heckling, there's benign and there's malignant; like tumors man. Sometimes you get really nice hecklers. I'd say percentage-wise it's only about 10 to 20 percent the whole year.”

Men Years Sometimes Whole Wise Nice Percent Percentages Get Real Really Nice Benign Tumors Whole Year Hecklers Heckling

Author:Godfrey

“Sometimes when you record an album in the end, there are things here and there you regret production wise or in composition.”

Ends Sometimes Records Wise Regret Albums Productions Composition Here And There

Author:Neige

“What I loved about it was language-wise it wasn't that finely-tuned-perfect-insult-for-the-perfect-situation that sometimes we try and do on Veep.”

Trying Sometimes Language Perfect Situation Wise Insult

Author:David Mandel

“Sometimes I'm under the impression some of the fights happen that they shouldn't happen because a guy's cheating. Also, I think when something like this happen they should have not only a suspension but also monetary wise enforce a penalty. Maybe take the purse of the fighter to the other fighter.”

Thinking Should Sometimes Happens Guy Fighting Wise Should Have Impression Fighter Cheating Penalties Purses Monetary Suspension

Author:Georges St-Pierre

“I have always taken the view that sometimes war may be justified, as police action can be justified, to protect the weak and vulnerable (a major preoccupation in scripture). But this is an old and difficult question and very wise people take different views.”

“A role model for me is somebody who is really empathetic and has a calm strength to them. Sometimes you meet random people and they're really inspiring because they seem wise; they've gone through things.”

People Sometimes Wise Calm Role Models Empathetic

Author:BANKS