Wise Quotes

When we looked at the life cycle in our 40s, we looked to old people for wisdom. At 80, though, we l...

The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us ...

The good and the wise lead quiet lives.

The wisest men follow their own direction.

He was a wise man who originated the idea of God.

Some wisdom you must learn from one who's wise.

It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, be...

Wise and humane management of the patient is the best safeguard against infection.

You can lose a friend in springtime easier than any other season if you're too curious.

Wise men make more opportunities than they find.

Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all which ma...

It is impossible to love and to be wise.

Wise men make more opportunities than they find.

Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all which ma...

It is impossible to love and to be wise.

Wise men make more opportunities than they find.

Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all which ma...

It is impossible to love and to be wise.

Wise men make more opportunities than they find.

Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all which ma...

It is impossible to love and to be wise.

If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despoti...

It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.

My world has just become perfect, midnight is also noonday, pain is also joy, a curse is also a bles...

Truth exists for the wise, beauty for the feeling heart.

They would need to be already wise, in order to love wisdom.

We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.

How can she? She's incapable of understanding anything. Besides, do any of us understand what we are...

He that is not handsome at 20, nor strong at 30, nor rich at 40, nor wise at 50, will never be hands...

Your dear baby has died innocent and blameless, and has been called away by an all wise and merciful...

Laughter is poison to fear.

Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.

In Greece wise men speak and fools decide.

Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair the rest is in the hands of God.

The man who has sufficient power over himself to wait until his nature has recovered its even balanc...

Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.

It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite eas...

Man is wise and constantly in quest of more wisdom; but the ultimate wisdom, which deals with beginn...

I never think of myself as wise. I think of myself as possessing a critical intelligence which I int...

I have not been that wise. Health I have taken for granted. Love I have demanded, perhaps too much a...

No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable r...

The boy gathers materials for a temple, and then when he is thirty, concludes to build a woodshed

Most of the luxuries, and many of the so called comforts of life, are not only indispensable, but po...

All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.

A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.

The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.

A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own ...

Wise to resolve, and patient to perform.

In youth and beauty wisdom is but rare!

Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise.

No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may ...

Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know—and yet not wise enough to control our learning an...

Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning ...

The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.

Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery.

Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not b...

It's the deep breath before the plunge.

Who has believed in the world and died with its name on his lips?

So said Hair-Face, and they killed him, because, they said, he was a wild man and wanted to go back ...

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party po...

There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well.The more I see of the ...

It would be most right, and most wise, and, therefore must involve least suffering.

The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored.

Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

'Swan,' by Mary Oliver. Poems and prose. Reading from this book is as if visiting a very wise friend...

Don't follow any advice, no matter how good, until you feel as deeply in your spirit as you think in...

Like a missing tooth, sometimes an absence is more noticeable than a presence.

Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.

Divide and rule, the politician cries;Unite and lead, is watchword of the wise.

When did you get so clever?""When I realized I wasn't as clever as I thought.

And then something invisible snapped insider her, and that which had come together commenced to fall...

How will I ever get out of this labyrinth!" to a margin note written in her loop-heavy cursive: Stra...

She has great breasts," the Colonel said without looking up from the whale."DO NOT OBJECTIFY WOMEN'S...

And we'll call you...hmmm. Pudge.""Huh?""Pudge," the Colonel said. "Because you're skinny. It's call...

Y'all smoke to enjoy it. I smoke to die.

I will give you a definition of a proud man: he is a man who has neither vanity nor wisdom one fille...

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

The monsters of our childhood do not fade away, neither are they ever wholly monstrous. But neither,...

A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.

I believe in only one thing,the power of human will.

Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall, whe...

Dieting is the only game where you win when you lose!

For the wise man looks into space and he knows there is no limited dimensions.

I was always an unusual girl.My mother told me I had a chameleon soul, no moral compass pointing due...

I want to be a wise woman

Those who are wise won't be busy, and those who are too busy can't be wise.

Information, long of reach, devastating, and as a side benefit, a substance with no serious legal re...

Thinking well to be wise: planning well, wiser: doing well wisest and best of all.

A wise man does not waste so good a commodity as lying for naught.

We cannot tell that we are constantly splitting into duplicate selves because our consciousness ride...

How can a rational being be ennobled by any thing that is not obtained by its own exertions?

We are braver and wiser because they existed, those strong women and strong men... We are who we are...

We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.

Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.

Study how water flows in a valley stream, smoothly and freely between the rocks. Also learn from hol...

Nothing gives a sadder sense of decay than this loss or suspension of the power to deal with unaccus...

A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests.

The magi, as you know, were wise men--wonderfully wise men--who brought gifts to the Babe in the man...

A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of...

It's a stupid leader who can't turn follower when somebody offers him a wiser course