Though we may be learned by another's knowledge, we can never be wise but by our own experience. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Since you have to do the things you have to do, be wise enough to do some of the things you want… — Malcolm Forbes Copy Share Image
Let fools the studious despise, There's nothing lost by being wise. — Jean de La Fontaine Copy Share Image
There is no gown or garment that worse becomes a woman than when she will be wise. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Live long, my friend, be wise and strong. But do not from any man his song. — Ruskin Bond Copy Share Image
I would advise anyone who aspires to a writing career that before developing his talent he would be wise to develop a… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
The goal of a passionate artist is to try and make a masterpiece each and every time, yet be wise enough to… — Donato Giancola Copy Share Image
To be wise doesn't always mean to have a wrinkled face and sparkly eyes. To be wise means to be still inside. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I endeavor to be wise when I cannot be merry, easy when I cannot be glad, content with what cannot be mended,… — Elizabeth Montagu Copy Share Image
History has tried hard to teach us that we can't have good government under politicians. Now, to go and stick one at… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Be wise, because the world needs more wisdom. And if you cannot be wise, pretend to be someone who is wise, and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
A sense of our own folly is a great step towards being wise, when it leads us to rely on the wisdom… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
If this nation is to be wise as well as strong, if we are to achieve our destiny, then we need more… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
We who live in this nervous age would be wise to meditate on our lives and our days long and often before… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
Lucky are you, reader, if you happen not to be of that sex to whom it is forbidden all good things; to… — Marie de Gournay Copy Share Image
But with respect to future debt; would it not be wise and just for that nation to declare in the constitution they… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise, He who defers this work from day to day, Does on a river's bank… — Abraham Cowley Copy Share Image
Man can learn self-discipline without becoming ascetic; he can be wise without waiting to be old; he can be influential without waiting… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
To-morrow — oh, 'twill never be, If we should live a thousand years! Our time is all to-day, to-day, The same, though… — James Montgomery Copy Share Image
As a man of pleasure, by a vain attempt to be more happy than any man can be, is often more miserable… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Be someone who genuinely seeks to understand, and you will be wise. Be someone kind, someone considerate, and you will be admired.… — Ralph Marston Copy Share Image
Waking up is unpleasant, you know. You are nice and comfortable in bed. It is irritating to be woken up. That's the… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
Acknowledging foolishness is a very powerful and important experience. We could almost say that being willing to be a fool is one… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
When Vanity kissed Vanity, a hundred happy Junes ago, he pondered o'er her breathlessly, and, that all men might ever know, he… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and for thy possession, the ends of the earth.… — Alexander Anderson Copy Share Image
Indeed the worthy housewife was of such a capricious nature, that she not only attained a higher pitch of genius than Macbeth,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Halt," said the elegant diplomat, "when you asked me to marry you, did you think we could just sneak off to a… — John Flanagan Copy Share Image
He comes to us as One unknown, without a name, as of old, by the lakeside, He came to those men who… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Everybody, one day will die, and be forgetton. Act and behave in a way that will make life interesting and fun, fuck… — Zyzz Copy Share Image
