Wise

Quote link. Other quotes by Miguel de Cervantes.: "A word to the wise is enough."
Quote link. Other quotes about: patience man Other quotes by Molire.: "A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation."
Quote link. Other quotes by George Santayana.: "Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man born Other quotes by Miguel de Cervantes.: "Time ripens all things. No man is born wise."
Quote link. Other quotes about: something mind Other quotes by George Santayana.: "The wisest mind has something yet to learn."
Quote link. Other quotes about: men sin rule Other quotes by Edward Abbey.: "Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others."
Quote link. Other quotes by Aeschylus.: "It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish."
Quote link. Other quotes about: art happy soul Other quotes by Akhenaton.: "Those who gave thee a body, furnished it with weakness but He who gave thee Soul, armed thee with resolution. Employ it, and thou art wise be wise and thou art happy."
Quote link. Other quotes by Amos Bronson Alcott.: "One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well."
Quote link. Other quotes about: evil Other quotes by Aeschylus.: "I would far rather be ignorant than wise in the foreboding of evil."
Quote link. Other quotes by Aeschylus.: "The wisest of the wise may err."
Quote link. Other quotes about: ignorance man wisdom change mind Other quotes by Akhenaton.: "True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not he knoweth all things but his own ignorance."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man Other quotes by George Washington Allston.: "The only competition worthy of a wise man is with himself."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man Other quotes by Aristophenes.: "The wise learn many things from their enemies."
Quote link. Other quotes about: never life beauty Other quotes by Roger Bannister.: "This--this was what made life a moment of quiet, the water falling in the fountain, the girl's voice...a moment of captured beauty. He who is truly wise will never permit such moments to escape."
Quote link. Other quotes about: men Other quotes by Natalie Clifford Barney.: "Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists, when you can ignore them like wise men"
Quote link. Other quotes about: old human man respect living nature grow hard Other quotes by Luther Bear.: "The old Lakota was wise. He knew that man's heart away from nature becomes hard he knew that lack of respect for growing, living things soon led to lack of respect for humans, too."
Quote link. Other quotes by Baslo.: "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise seek what they sought."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man understand peace Other quotes by Proverbs 1728 Bible.: "Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise and he that shutteth his lips is esteemed a man of understanding."
Quote link. Other quotes about: never man answer Other quotes by Lord Billingsley.: "How do you know so much about everything was asked of a very wise and intelligent man and the answer was 'By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant."
Quote link. Other quotes about: think Other quotes by Claude T Bissell.: "Risk more than others think is safe. Care more than others think is wise. Dream more than others think is practical. Expect more than others think is possible."
Quote link. Other quotes about: ignorance find work something people man hard Other quotes by Bokonon.: "Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way."
Quote link. Other quotes about: experience Other quotes by James Boswell.: "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man Other quotes by Anne Brown.: "A wise man keeps secrets in his heart a foolish man tells tales."
Quote link. Other quotes about: world man life Other quotes by Sir Thomas Browne.: "I could be content that we might procreate, without conjunction, or that there were any way to perpetuate the world without this trivial and vulgar way of coition it is the most foolish act a wise man commits in all his life."
Quote link. Other quotes about: find world time man rest heaven soul Other quotes by Michelangelo Buonarroti.: "Heaven-born, the soul a heavenward course must hold beyond the world she soars the wise man, I affirm, can find no rest in that which perishes, nor will he lend his heart to ought that doth time depend."
Quote link. Other quotes about: power man Other quotes by Lyman Bryson.: "The qualities that get a man into power are not those that lead him, once established, to use power wisely."
Quote link. Other quotes about: friend friends alone young Other quotes by Montagu Butler.: "Would you, my dear young friends, like to be inside with the five wise virgins, or outside, alone and in the dark with the five foolish ones."
Quote link. Other quotes about: earth man life understand pain children woman child Other quotes by Whittaker Chambers.: "When you understand what you see, you will no longer be children. You will know that life is pain, that each of us hangs always upon the cross of himself. And when you know that this is true of every man, woman and child on earth, you will be wiser."
Quote link. Other quotes by Geoffrey Chaucer.: "Ful wys is he that can himselven knowe (Very wise is he that can know himself.)"
Quote link. Other quotes about: people Other quotes by Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield.: "Be wiser than other people if you can but do not tell them so."
Quote link. Other quotes about: change grow Other quotes by Karen Kaiser Clark.: "Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely."
Quote link. Other quotes about: little men Other quotes by Roald Dahl.: "A little nonsense now and then, is cherished by the wisest men."
Quote link. Other quotes about: reason Other quotes by Robertson Davies.: "Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man woman Other quotes by Robertson Davies.: "Every man is wise when attacked by a mad dog fewer when pursued by a mad woman only the wisest survive when attacked by a mad notion."
Quote link. Other quotes about: strength work reason day men making Other quotes by Marguerite de Valois.: "Love works in miracles every day such as weakening the strong, and strengthening the weak making fools of the wise, and wise men of fools favouring the passions, destroying reason, and in a word, turning everything topsy-turvy."
Quote link. Other quotes by Demosthenes.: "There is one safeguard known generally to the wise, which is an advantage and security to all, but especially to democracies against despots -- suspicion."
Quote link. Other quotes about: find love Other quotes by Marlene Dietrich.: "I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man discover Other quotes by Laertius Diogenes.: "It takes a wise man to discover a wise man."
Quote link. Other quotes about: men teach Other quotes by Abba Eban.: "History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives."
Quote link. Other quotes about: never today change Other quotes by Tryon Edwards.: "He that never changes his opinions, never corrects his mistakes, will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today."
Quote link. Other quotes about: god man deep sin Other quotes by Tryon Edwards.: "Quiet and sincere sympathy is often the most welcome and efficient consolation to the afflicted. Said a wise man to one in deep sorrow, I did not come to comfort you God only can do that but I did come to say how deeply and tenderly I feel for you in your affliction."
Quote link. Other quotes by Paul Engle.: "Wisdom is knowing when you can't be wise."
Quote link. Other quotes about: friend Other quotes by Jean de La Fontaine.: "Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend A wise enemy is worth more."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man answer Other quotes by Solomon Ibn Gabirol.: "A wise man's question contains half the answer."
Quote link. Other quotes about: wisdom Other quotes by Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi.: "It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and wisest might err."
Quote link. Other quotes about: people words Other quotes by Michael J. Gelb.: "Brain researchers estimate that your unconscious database outweighs the conscious on an order exceeding ten million to one. This database is the source of your hidden, natural genius. In other words, a part of you is much smarter than you are. The wise people regularly consult that smarter part."
Quote link. Other quotes about: wish Other quotes by Patrice Gifford.: "It is always wise to stop wishing for things long enough to enjoy the fragrance of those now flowering."
Quote link. Other quotes about: person Other quotes by Richard R. Grant.: "The wisest person is not the one who has the fewest failures but the one who turns failures to best account."
Quote link. Other quotes about: human Other quotes by Vartan Gregorian.: "Libraries keep the records on behalf of all humanity. ... the unique and the absurd, the wise and the fragments of stupidity."
Quote link. Other quotes about: small die friend live think nothing time life love change making friends Other quotes by Adam R. Gwizdala.: "Life goes through changes so fast, you think your life is great, than one of your best friends dies. Then you think you found someone you truly love, only to figure out, she doesn't love you back. You cry and cry and cry, but nothing changes. You realize, that you must accept things for what they are, and what they have made you become.Everything in life changes you in some way. Even the smallest things. If you do not accept these changes, you do not accept yourself. For through these changes brings new and greater things to you, making you wiser, as time progresses. To avoid these changes is a loss. You only live your life once. Do not waste a minute of it avoiding things. Let them come to you, and learn from them. There's always tomorrow."
Quote link. Other quotes about: small live time life change making Other quotes by Adam R. Gwizdala.: "Everything in life changes you in some way. Even the smallest things. If you do not accept these changes you do not accept yourself. For through these changes brings new and greater things to you, making you wiser, as time progresses. To avoid these changes is a loss. You only live your life once. Do not waste a minute of it avoiding things. Let them come to you, and learn from them. There is always tomorrow."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man Other quotes by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts.: "The wise man can pick up a grain of sand and envision a whole universe. But the stupid man will just lie down on some seaweed and roll around until he's completely draped in it. Then he'll stand up and go, 'Hey, I'm Vine Man.'"
Quote link. Other quotes about: man cook Other quotes by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts.: "It makes me mad when I go to all the trouble of having Marta cook up about a hundred drumsticks, then the guy at the Marineland says, 'You can't throw chicken to the dolphins. They eat fish.' Sure they eat fish, if that's all you give them. Man, wise up."
Quote link. Other quotes about: men life wisdom Other quotes by Nathaniel Hawthorne.: "In youth men are apt to write more wisely than they really know or feel and the remainder of life may be not idly spent in realizing and convincing themselves of the wisdom which they uttered long ago."
Quote link. Other quotes about: men teach Other quotes by Heraclitus.: "Abundance of knowledge does not teach men to be wise."
Quote link. Other quotes about: find truth men discover Other quotes by A. A. Hodge.: "It is easier to find a score of men wise enough to discover the truth than to find one intrepid enough, in the face of opposition, to stand up for it."
Quote link. Other quotes by Josiah Gilbert Holland.: "The heart is wiser than the intellect."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man value Other quotes by William Ralph Inge.: "The wise man is he who knows the relative value of things."
Quote link. Other quotes by Richard Lamm.: "Politics, like theater, is one of those things where you've got to be wise enough to know when to leave."
Quote link. Other quotes about: right man answer Other quotes by Claude Levi-Strauss.: "The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions."
Quote link. Other quotes about: patience believe world understand love sin alone teach Other quotes by Anne Spencer Morrow Lindbergh.: "I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable."
Quote link. Other quotes about: today Other quotes by Kay Lyons.: "Yesterday is a canceled check tomorrow is a promissory note today is the only cash you have -- so spend it wisely."
Quote link. Other quotes about: day time man life sun sin rich single look Other quotes by Arthur Marx.: "So. The time has come for me to get my kite flying, stretch out in the sun, kick off my shoes, and speak my piece. 'The days of struggle are over,' I should be able to say. 'I can look back now and tell myself I don't have a single regret.' But I do. Many years ago a very wise man named Bernard Baruch took me aside and put his arm around my shoulder. 'Harpo, my boy,' he said, 'I'm going to give you three pieces of advice, three things you should always remember.' My heart jumped and I glowed with expectation. I was going to hear the magic password to a rich, full life from the master himself. 'Yes, sir' I said. And he told me the three things. I regret that I've forgotten what they were."
Quote link. Other quotes about: thinking find friend think never man friends fact Other quotes by Lord Melbourne.: "Your friends praise your abilities to the skies, submit to you in argument, and seem to have the greatest deference for you but, though they may ask it, you never find them following your advice upon their own affairs nor allowing you to manage your own, without thinking that you should follow theirs. Thus, in fact, they all think themselves wiser than you, whatever they may say."
Quote link. Other quotes about: human never men life moon women Other quotes by Henry Louis Mencken.: "Life without sex might be safer but it would be unbearably dull. It is the sex instinct which makes women seem beautiful, which they are once in a blue moon, and men seem wise and brave, which they never are at all. Throttle it, denaturalize it, take it away, and human existence would be reduced to the prosiac, laborious, boresome, imbecile level of life in an anthill."
Quote link. Other quotes about: christ men man good Other quotes by Henry Louis Mencken.: "Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good."
Quote link. Other quotes about: think look Other quotes by Andrew Mercer.: "Only the most foolish of mice would hide in a cat's ear, but only the wisest of cats would think to look there."
Quote link. Other quotes about: men Other quotes by Elizabeth Montagu.: "I endeavor to be wise when I cannot be merry, easy when I cannot be glad, content with what cannot be mended and patient when there be no redress."
Quote link. Other quotes about: men wisdom Other quotes by Michel Eyquem de Montaigne.: "We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man Other quotes by Michel Eyquem de Montaigne.: "A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man Other quotes by Richard Needham.: "A sensible man knows you can't please everybody. A wise man knows you can't please anybody."
Quote link. Other quotes by Edward R. Nida.: "How you lose or keep your hair depends on how wisely you choose your parents."
Quote link. Other quotes about: day child Other quotes by Alden Nowlan.: "The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect he becomes an adolescent the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult the day he forgives himself he becomes wise."
Quote link. Other quotes about: happiness man grow Other quotes by James Oppenheim.: "The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet."
Quote link. Other quotes about: books die human live men man purpose book understand wisdom words hard Other quotes by Alan Stewart Paton.: "Who knows why we live, and struggle, and die... Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom."
Quote link. Other quotes about: think man life wisdom Other quotes by John Patrick.: "Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable."
Quote link. Other quotes about: time Other quotes by Pericles.: "Wait for that wisest of all counselors, Time."
Quote link. Other quotes about: men respect good conscience law Other quotes by Pope Pius XI.: "Justice requires that to lawfully constituted Authority there be given that respect and obedience which is its due that the laws which are made shall be in wise conformity with the common good and that, as a matter of conscience all men shall render obedience to these laws."
Quote link. Other quotes about: think time today Other quotes by Hugh Prather.: "Next time I will ... From now on I will ... What makes me think I am wiser today than I will be tomorrow"
Quote link. Other quotes about: money sin Other quotes by Jewish Proverb.: "With money in your pocket you are wise, you are handsome, and you sing well too."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man Other quotes by Arabic Proverb.: "The wise man speaks of what he sees, the idiot of what he hears."
Quote link. Other quotes about: men Other quotes by Biblical Proverb.: "Great men are not always wise."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man rich Other quotes by Romanian Proverb.: "Adversity makes a man wise, not rich."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man Other quotes by Welsh Proverb.: "Reason is the wise man's guide, example the fools."
Quote link. Other quotes about: think man Other quotes by Welsh Proverb.: "Three things it is best to avoid a strange dog, a flood, and a man who thinks he is wise."
Quote link. Other quotes about: world Other quotes by Francis Quarles.: "Be wisely worldly, be not worldly wise."
Quote link. Other quotes about: speech Other quotes by James Barrett Scotty Reston.: "How Kennedy knew the precise drop in milk consumption in 1960, the percentage rise in textile imports from 1957 to 1960 and the number of speeches cleared by the Defense Department is not quite clear, but anyway, he did. He either overwhelmed you with decimal points or disarmed you with a smile and a wisecrack."
Quote link. Other quotes about: men rich Other quotes by John Ray.: "Adversity makes men wise but not rich."
Quote link. Other quotes about: old Other quotes by Edward Hersey Richards.: "A wise old owl sat upon an oak The more he saw the less he spoke The less he spoke the more he heard Why aren't we like that wise old bird"
Quote link. Other quotes about: experience time Other quotes by Franois Auguste Ren Rodin.: "Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely."
Quote link. Other quotes by Jeanne-Marie Roland.: "The feeble tremble before opinion, the foolish defy it, the wise judge it, the skillful direct it."
Quote link. Other quotes about: human truth people respect Other quotes by Jeanne-Marie Roland.: "It is for the wise people who delight in humanity, praise justice, despise their flatterers, and respect the truth."
Quote link. Other quotes about: friend man Other quotes by Saadi.: "O wise man, wash your hands of that friend who associates with your enemies."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man wisdom born Other quotes by John Selden.: "No man is wiser for his learning, wit and wisdom are born with a man."
Quote link. Other quotes about: day man Other quotes by Odell Shepard.: "It is always wise, as it is also fair, to test a man by the standards of his own day, and not by those of another."
Quote link. Other quotes by Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn.: "It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves."
Quote link. Other quotes about: believe people Other quotes by H. Allen Smith.: "When there are two conflicting versions of the story, the wise course is to believe the one in which people appear at their worst."
Quote link. Other quotes about: men mind Other quotes by Robert South.: "Speech was given to the ordinary sort of men, whereby to communicate their mind but to wise men, whereby to conceal it."
Quote link. Other quotes about: men man Other quotes by The Talmud.: "Who is a wise man He who learns of all men."
Quote link. Other quotes about: truth life grow look Other quotes by Sara Teasdale.: "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."
Quote link. Other quotes about: forget Other quotes by Thomas Szasz.: "The stupid neither forgive nor forget the naive forgive and forget the wise forgive but do not forget."
Quote link. Other quotes about: glory pain alone Other quotes by Paul Johannes Tillich.: "Our language has wisely sensed the two sides of being alone. It has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word solitude to express the glory of being alone."
Quote link. Other quotes about: never Other quotes by Alexis Charles Henri Clrel de Tocqueville.: "Whoever has inhabited the United States must have perceived that in those parts of the Union in which the Negroes are no longer slaves the have in no wise drawn nearer to the whites. On the contrary, the prejudice of race appears to be stronger in the states that have abolished slavery than those where it still exists and nowhere is it intolerant as in those states where servitude has never been known."
Quote link. Other quotes about: day live never important look Other quotes by Dr. Dale E. Turner.: "It is important to live each day with a positive perspective. It is not wise to pretend problems do not exist, but it is wise to look beyond the problem to the possibilities that are in it. When Goliath came against the Israelites, the soldiers all thought, 'He's so big, we can never kill him.' But David looked at the same giant and thought, 'He's so big, I can't miss him.'"
Quote link. Other quotes about: life teach Other quotes by Unknown.: "Listen to life, it is the wisest teacher of all."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man person Other quotes by Unknown.: "Should one see a wise man who, like a revealer of treasures, points out faults and reproves, let one associate with such a wise person for the benefits he shall receive."
Quote link. Other quotes about: think Other quotes by Unknown.: "Excellence is the result of caring more than others think is wise risking more than others think is safe dreaming more than others think is practical and expecting more than others think is possible."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man Other quotes by Unknown.: "A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top ."
Quote link. Other quotes about: speech peace mind Other quotes by Maitri Upanishads.: "The wise should surrender speech in mind, mind in the knowing self, the knowing self in the Spirit of the universe, and the Spirit of the universe in the Spirit of peace."
Quote link. Other quotes about: mother religion Other quotes by Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire.: "Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother."
Quote link. Other quotes about: ignorance find work something people man hard Other quotes by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr..: "Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way."
Quote link. Other quotes about: men Other quotes by H. G. Wells.: "Fools make researches and wise men exploit them."
Quote link. Other quotes by Alfred North Whitehead.: "Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct from ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended."
Quote link. Other quotes about: reason Other quotes by Oprah Winfrey.: "I trust that everything happens for a reason, even when we're not wise enough to see it."
Quote link. Other quotes by Edward Young.: "Be wise with speed . A fool at forty is a fool indeed."
Quote link. Other quotes by Whitney Moore Young.: "Our ability to create has outreached our ability to use wisely the products of our invention."
Quote link. Other quotes by Anonymous.: "Dare to be wise."
Quote link. Other quotes about: live Other quotes by Anonymous.: "Write a wise saying and your name will live forever"
Quote link. Other quotes about: man Other quotes by Bias.: "The wise man carries his possessions within him."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man rich Other quotes by Cicero.: "Nature herself makes the wise man rich."
Quote link. Other quotes about: experience reason mind Other quotes by Cicero.: "The wise are instructed by reason ordinary minds by experience the stupid, by necessity and brutes by instinct."
Quote link. Other quotes about: friendship friend friends Other quotes by Colette.: "It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship."
Quote link. Other quotes about: reason right men man nature good law Other quotes by Victor Cousin.: "All men have an equal right to the free development of their faculties they have an equal right to the impartial protection of the state but it is not true, it is against all the laws of reason and equity, it is against the eternal nature of things, that the indolent man and the laborious man, the spendthrift and the economist, the imprudent and the wise, should obtain and enjoy an equal amount of goods."
Quote link. Other quotes about: men success Other quotes by Cato the Elder.: "Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise."
Quote link. Other quotes about: friend friends teach Other quotes by Charles W. Eliot.: "Books are the quietest and most constant of friends they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers."
Quote link. Other quotes about: experience think time person honest Other quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.: "All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience."
Quote link. Other quotes by Philip G. Hamerton.: "Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author"
Quote link. Other quotes about: man love Other quotes by Afranius.: "The wise man will love all others will desire."
Quote link. Other quotes by Titus Maccius Plautus.: "A word to the wise is enough."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man Other quotes by Pliny the Elder.: "No mortal man, moreover is wise at all moments."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man Other quotes by Titus Maccius Plautus.: "No man is wise enough by himself."
Quote link. Other quotes about: wish Other quotes by Quintilian.: "Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish."
Quote link. Other quotes by Quintilian.: "When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield."
Quote link. Other quotes about: experience time Other quotes by Rodin.: "Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely."
Quote link. Other quotes about: live think Other quotes by Francois de La Rochefoucauld.: "He who lives without folly isn't so wise as he thinks."
Quote link. Other quotes about: anger people love wish Other quotes by Real Live Preacher.: "Forgiveness does not always lead to a healed relationship. Some people are not capable of love, and it might be wise to let them go along with your anger. Wish them well, and let them go their way."
Quote link. Other quotes about: christ men man good Other quotes by H.L. Mencken.: "Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good."
Quote link. Other quotes about: history man future run lies Other quotes by Dwight D Eisenhower.: "Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him."
Quote link. Other quotes about: god man fear Other quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson.: "The wise man in the storm prays God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear."
Quote link. Other quotes about: past future Other quotes by George Bernard Shaw.: "We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future."
Quote link. Other quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson.: "Life is a festival only to the wise."
Quote link. Other quotes about: find man Other quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson.: "The wise man always throws himself on the side of his assailants. It is more his interest than it is theirs to find his weak point."
Quote link. Other quotes about: wisdom Other quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson.: "The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool."
Quote link. Other quotes about: time love mind look Other quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson.: "He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses."
Quote link. Other quotes about: experience man good Other quotes by Josh Billings.: "It's a wise man who profits by his own experience, but it's a good deal wiser one who lets the rattlesnake bite the other fellow."
Quote link. Other quotes about: old grow Other quotes by Josh Billings.: "Some folks as they grow older grow wise, but most folks simply grow stubborner."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man wish Other quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson.: "There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant."
Quote link. Other quotes about: live think man Other quotes by La Rochefoucauld.: "The man who lives free from folly is not so wise as he thinks."
Quote link. Other quotes about: nothing man Other quotes by Socrates.: "I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing. (Plato's Apology)"
Quote link. Other quotes about: think little man Other quotes by Socrates.: "I thought to myself, 'I am wiser than this man neither of us knows anything that is really worthwhile, but he thinks he has knowledge when he has not, while I, having no knowledge, do not think that I have. I seem, at any rate, to be a little wiser than he is on this point I do not think that I know what I do not know."
Quote link. Other quotes by George Eliot.: "To judge wisely, we must know how things appear to the unwise."
Quote link. Other quotes about: live man Other quotes by Sophocles.: "Though a man be wise it is no shame for him to live and learn."
Quote link. Other quotes about: happiness old god men wisdom words Other quotes by Sophocles.: "There is no happiness where there is no wisdom No wisdom but in submission to the gods. Big words are always punished, And proud men in old age learn to be wise."
Quote link. Other quotes about: experience think time person honest Other quotes by Johann von Goethe.: "All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience."
Quote link. Other quotes about: never men change Other quotes by Confucius.: "Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change."
Quote link. Other quotes about: change Other quotes by Confucius.: "It is only the wisest and the stupidest that cannot change."
Quote link. Other quotes about: money man Other quotes by Mark Twain.: "Behold, the fool saith, Put not all thine eggs in the one basket, -- which is but a manner of saying, Scatter your money and your attention, but the wise man saith, Put all your eggs in the one basket and -- watch that basket."
Quote link. Other quotes about: think Other quotes by Sydney Smith.: "You must not think me necessarily foolish because I am facetious, nor will I consider you necessarily wise because you are grave."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man answer Other quotes by Naguib, Mahfouz.: "You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions."
Quote link. Other quotes by Thomas Fuller.: "If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully."
Quote link. Other quotes about: art Other quotes by William James.: "The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook."
Quote link. Other quotes about: think Other quotes by Charles Caleb Colton.: "He that thinks himself the wisest is generally the least so."
Quote link. Other quotes about: power man good Other quotes by Charles Caleb Colton.: "No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man answer Other quotes by Charles Caleb Colton.: "Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer."
Quote link. Other quotes about: time men words Other quotes by Abraham Lincoln.: "It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence, to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words And this, too, shall pass away."
Quote link. Other quotes about: time men words Other quotes by Abraham Lincoln.: "It is said an eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent a sentence, to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him with the words, 'And this, too, shall pass away.' How much it expresses How chastening in the hour of pride How consoling in the depths of affliction"
Quote link. Other quotes about: think man today Other quotes by Abraham Lincoln.: "I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday."
Quote link. Other quotes about: men Other quotes by Euripides.: "The wisest men follow their own direction."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man forget Other quotes by Martin Luther King, Jr..: "Ten thousand fools proclaim themselves into obscurity, while one wise man forgets himself into immortality."
Quote link. Other quotes about: god world man nature good wisdom Other quotes by Pierre Charron.: "The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practised, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good. . . . God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man Other quotes by German proverb.: "The wise man has long ears and a short tongue."
Quote link. Other quotes by George Orwell.: "Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it."
Quote link. Other quotes about: experience wisdom Other quotes by Benjamin Disraeli.: "The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations."
Quote link. Other quotes about: human man Other quotes by Keven Kwaku.: "Information Superhighway is really an acronym for 'Interactive Network For Organizing, Retrieving, Manipulating, Accessing And Transferring Information On National Systems, Unleashing Practically Every Rebellious Human Intelligence, Gratifying Hackers, Wiseacres, And Yahoos'."
Quote link. Other quotes about: experience wisdom Other quotes by Benjamin Disraeli.: "The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation."
Quote link. Other quotes by Robert Burton.: "Penny wise, pound foolish."
Quote link. Other quotes about: obstacles Other quotes by Andrew Carnegie.: "Those who would administer wisely must, indeed, be wise, for one of the serious obstacles to the improvement of our race is indiscriminate charity."
Quote link. Other quotes about: past future fear Other quotes by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.: "Look not mournfully into the past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the present. It is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future, without fear."
Quote link. Other quotes about: right time Other quotes by Nelson Mendela.: "We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right."
Quote link. Other quotes about: live past future mind Other quotes by Buddha.: "The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly."
Quote link. Other quotes about: death live fear Other quotes by Buddha.: "Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely."
Quote link. Other quotes about: talk man Other quotes by Ben Johnson.: "Talking and eloquence are not the same to speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks."
Quote link. Other quotes about: death people life Other quotes by Buddha.: "To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent."
Quote link. Other quotes about: time Other quotes by Laurence J. Peter.: "It is wise to remember that you are one of those who can be fooled some of the time."
Quote link. Other quotes by Lao Tzu.: "He who knows others is wise.He who knows himself is enlightened."
Quote link. Other quotes about: power rich Other quotes by Benjamin Franklin.: "Who is wise He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful He that governs his passions. Who is rich He who is content. Who is that Nobody."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man glory need Other quotes by Plutarch.: "The man who is completely wise and virtuous has no need of glory, except so far as it disposes and eases his way to action by the greater trust that it procures him."
Quote link. Other quotes about: human men Other quotes by Plutarch.: "For to err in opinion, though it be not the part of wise men, is at least human."
Quote link. Other quotes about: old Other quotes by Benjamin Franklin.: "Life's Tragedy is that we get old to soon and wise too late."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man Other quotes by Ambrose Bierce.: "Cabbage A familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head."
Quote link. Other quotes about: light person Other quotes by Albert Schweitzer.: "An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight... The truly wise person is color- blind."
Quote link. Other quotes about: patience believe world understand love sin alone teach Other quotes by Joseph Addison.: "I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable."
Quote link. Other quotes about: men wisdom lies Other quotes by Joseph Addison.: "Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass."
Quote link. Other quotes about: brother hope experience friend life success wish Other quotes by Joseph Addison.: "If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius."
Quote link. Other quotes about: speech nothing Other quotes by William Osler.: "Look wise, say nothing, and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought."
Quote link. Other quotes about: good love society Other quotes by Percy Bysshe Shelley.: "I love tranquil solitude And such society As is quiet, wise, and good."
Quote link. Other quotes about: truth Other quotes by French Proverb.: "When one has one's hand full of truth it is not always wise to open it."
Quote link. Other quotes about: world Other quotes by Edward R. Murrow.: "Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn't mean you are wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar."
Quote link. Other quotes about: strength men man wish Other quotes by Niccolo Machiavelli.: "A wise man ought always to follow the paths beaten by great men, and to imitate those who have been supreme, so that if his ability does not equal theirs, at least it will savor of it. Let him act like the clever archers who, designing to hit the mark which yet appears too far distant, and knowing the limits to which the strength of their bow attains, take aim much higher than the mark, not to reach by their strength or arrow to so great a height, but to be able with the aid of so high an aim to hit the mark they wish to reach."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man mind Other quotes by Euripides.: "The man who knows when not to act is wise. To my mind, bravery is forethought."
Quote link. Other quotes about: power live man life Other quotes by Euripides.: "The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man."
Quote link. Other quotes by Euripides.: "Second thoughts are ever wiser."
Quote link. Other quotes about: live good Other quotes by Euripides.: "The good and the wise lead quiet lives."
Quote link. Other quotes about: human life Other quotes by Henry David Thoreau.: "None can be an impartial or wise observer of human life but from the vantage ground of what we should call voluntary poverty."
Quote link. Other quotes about: ignorance time man wisdom mind Other quotes by Henry David Thoreau.: "A man is wise with the wisdom of his time only, and ignorant with its ignorance. Observe how the greatest minds yield in some degree to the superstitions of their age."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man Other quotes by Henry David Thoreau.: "Water is the only drink for a wise man."
Quote link. Other quotes about: ignorance Other quotes by Baltasar Gracian.: "Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man Other quotes by Baltasar Gracian.: "The wise man does at once what the fool does finally."
Quote link. Other quotes about: friend man friends Other quotes by Baltasar Gracian.: "A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends."
Quote link. Other quotes about: first man life mankind Other quotes by Logan Pearsall Smith.: "There are two things to aim at in life first, to get what you want and, after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second."
Quote link. Other quotes about: thinking ignorance death friend think men good evil fear friends Other quotes by Logan Pearsall Smith.: "To fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise, without being wise for it is to think that we know what we do not know. For anything that men can tell, death may be the greatest good that can happen to them but they fear it as if they knew quite well that it was the greatest of evils. And what is this but that shameful ignorance of thinking that we know what we do not know"
Quote link. Other quotes about: wrong never man today Other quotes by Alexander Pope.: "A man should never be ashamed to own he has been wrong, which is but saying, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday."
Quote link. Other quotes about: money man Other quotes by Jonathan Swift.: "A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man wish young Other quotes by Jonathan Swift.: "No wise man ever wished to be younger."
Quote link. Other quotes by William Shakespeare.: "This fellow's wise enough to play the fool, And to do that well craves a kind of wit."
Quote link. Other quotes about: think man Other quotes by William Shakespeare.: "The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool."
Quote link. Other quotes about: old Other quotes by William Shakespeare.: "Thou shouldst not have been old till thou hadst been wise."
Quote link. Other quotes by Aesop.: "Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own."
Quote link. Other quotes about: little men Other quotes by William Shakespeare.: "The little foolery that wise men have makes a great show."
Quote link. Other quotes about: first purpose Other quotes by William Shakespeare.: "See first that the design is wise and just that ascertained, pursue it resolutely do not for one repulse forego the purpose that you resolved to effect."
Quote link. Other quotes about: talk Other quotes by Norman Thomas.: "You may use different sorts of sentences and illustrations before different sorts of audiences, but you don't -- if you are wise -- talk down to any audience."
Quote link. Other quotes about: find man Other quotes by Francis Bacon.: "A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds."
Quote link. Other quotes about: men Other quotes by Francis Bacon.: "Nothing is more damaging to a state than that cunning men pass for wise."
Quote link. Other quotes about: love Other quotes by Francis Bacon.: "It is impossible to love and to be wise."
Quote link. Other quotes about: philosophy men deep Other quotes by Francis Bacon.: "Histories make men wise poets, witty the mathematics, subtle natural philosophy, deep moral, grave logic and rhetoric, able to contend."
Quote link. Other quotes about: need Other quotes by Bill Cosby.: "A word to the wise ain't necessary -- it's the stupid ones that need the advice."
Quote link. Other quotes about: human think nature Other quotes by Anatole France.: "It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly."
Quote link. Other quotes about: ignorance happiness never Other quotes by Thomas Gray.: "Yet ah why should they know their fateSince sorrow never comes too late,And happiness too swiftly flies.Thought would destroy their paradise.No more where ignorance is bliss,'Tis folly to be wise."
Quote link. Other quotes about: never sun Other quotes by William Congreve.: "Defer not till tomorrow to be wise, tomorrow's sun to thee may never rise."
Quote link. Other quotes about: anger people answer Other quotes by William Arthur Ward.: "It is wise to direct your anger towards problems -- not people to focus your energies on answers -- not excuses."
Quote link. Other quotes about: little words Other quotes by William Arthur Ward.: "We can learn much from wise words, little from wisecracks, and less from wise guys."
Quote link. Other quotes about: people man Other quotes by William Butler Yeats.: "Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man Other quotes by Epictetus.: "He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has."
Quote link. Other quotes about: experience wisdom Other quotes by William Feather.: "The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations."
Quote link. Other quotes about: money Other quotes by Donnie Brasco.: "Lefty Wise guy dont carry wallets, they carry their money in a roll....beaner on the outs"
Quote link. Other quotes about: wrong right Other quotes by Donnie Brasco.: "Lefty A wise guy's always right even when he's wrong, he's right."
Quote link. Other quotes about: people Other quotes by Lord Chesterfield.: "Be wiser than other people, if you can, but do not tell them so."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man sin words Other quotes by Homer.: "The wine urges me on, the bewitching wine, which sets even a wise man to singing and to laughing gently and rouses him up to dance and brings forth words which were better unspoken."
Quote link. Other quotes about: art understand love saint child Other quotes by Leo Buscaglia.: "Perfect love is rare indeed - for to be a lover will require that you continually have the subtlety of the very wise, the flexibility of the child, the sensitivity of the artist, the understanding of the philosopher, the acceptance of the saint, the tolerance of the scholar and the fortitude of the certain."
Quote link. Other quotes about: world people Other quotes by Bertrand Russell.: "The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts."
Quote link. Other quotes about: think government Other quotes by Frank Herbert.: "If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual."
Quote link. Other quotes about: human man Other quotes by Hippocrates.: "A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man mankind ideas Other quotes by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.: "The wise only possess ideas the greater part of mankind are possessed by them."
Quote link. Other quotes about: small Other quotes by G. K. Chesterton.: "There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob."
Quote link. Other quotes about: experience Other quotes by Samuel Johnson.: "Men are wise in proportion not to their experience but to their capacity for experience."
Quote link. Other quotes about: happiness right man Other quotes by Samuel Johnson.: "No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man wish Other quotes by Samuel Johnson.: "Every man wishes to be wise, and they who cannot be wise are almost always cunning."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man rich Other quotes by Samuel Johnson.: "As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which he cannot apply will make no man wise."
Quote link. Other quotes about: friendship friend man mankind friends wish Other quotes by Thomas Jefferson.: "Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it."
Quote link. Other quotes about: power mind Other quotes by Edmund Burke.: "The wise determine from the gravity of the case the irritable, from sensibility to oppression the high minded, from disdain and indignation at abusive power in unworthy hands."
Quote link. Other quotes about: death die live life fear Other quotes by J. R. R. Tolkien.: "Many that live deserve death. And some die that deserve life. Can you give it to them Then be not too eager to deal out death in the name of justice, fearing for your own safety. Even the wise cannot see all ends."
Quote link. Other quotes about: wisdom Other quotes by Mahatma Gandhi.: "It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err."
Quote link. Other quotes about: thinking think Other quotes by Horace.: "Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking."
Quote link. Other quotes by Horace.: "He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise begin"
Quote link. Other quotes about: money men Other quotes by Thomas Hobbes.: "Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon with them, but they are the money of fools."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man Other quotes by Lucius Annaeus Seneca.: "No man ever became wise by chance."
Quote link. Other quotes about: people rule Other quotes by Lucius Annaeus Seneca.: "Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful."
Quote link. Other quotes about: talk Other quotes by W. Somerset Maugham.: "At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely."
Quote link. Other quotes about: right Other quotes by Lucius Annaeus Seneca.: "We become wiser by adversity prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man Other quotes by Seneca.: "Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man Other quotes by Chinese Proverb.: "A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man sin single Other quotes by Chinese Proverb.: "A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study."
Quote link. Other quotes about: god Other quotes by Albert Einstein.: "Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish."
Quote link. Other quotes about: experience mind wish Other quotes by Albert Einstein.: "All our thoughts and concepts are called up by sense-experiences and have a meaning only in reference to these sense-experiences. On the other hand, however, they are products of the spontaneous activity of our minds they are thus in no wise logical consequences of the contents of these sense-experiences. If, therefore, we wish to grasp the essence of a complex of abstract notions we must for the one part investigate the mutual relationships between the concepts and the assertions made about them for the other, we must investigate how they are related to the experiences."
Quote link. Other quotes about: good wish Other quotes by Albert Einstein.: "How I wish that somewhere there existed an island for those who are wise and of goodwill In such a place even I would be an ardent patriot."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man Other quotes by Miguel de Cervantes.: "It is the part of a wise man to keep himself to-day for to-morrow, and not to venture all his eggs in one basket."

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