To be wise means to be a teacher, means to be a soul winner. That's our business - That's our only business! — J. Frank Norris Copy Share Image
In a word, if this country can steer clear of European politics, stand firm on its bottom, and be wise and temperate… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Now that we are, as you say, 'in the same boat,' would it not be wise for us to have another conference… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own: [I hate a sage… — Euripides Copy Share Image
You cannot be wise without some basis of knowledge, but you may easily acquire knowledge and remain bare of wisdom. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
The hallway of every man's life is paced with pictures; pictures gay and pictures gloomy, all useful, for if we be wise,… — Sean O'Casey Copy Share Image
Certainly it is no shame to a man that he should be as nice about his country as his sweetheart, yet it… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
We must be wise taskmasters and not require of ourselves what we cannot possibly perform. Recreation we must have. Otherwise, the strings… — Elizabeth Prentiss Copy Share Image
These days people don't search for the Truth. People study simply in order to find knowledge necessary to make a living, raise… — Ajahn Chah Copy Share Image
It almost seems as though this roiling world is conspiring to test our patience at every turn. In fact, it is. With… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I really do believe that the basic principle that Americans have the right to know what they're buying when they buy it… — Peter Shumlin Copy Share Image
No man of honor, as the word is usually understood, did ever pretend that his honor obliged him to be chaste or… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
You will deal with ignorant, opinionated and innocent people. You will often have an opportunity to cheat them. If they could, they… — Alexander Turney Stewart Copy Share Image
To fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise, without being wise: for it is to think that we know… — Socrates Copy Share Image
If thy desire to raise thy fortunes encourage thy delights to the casts of fortune, be wise betimes, lest thou repent too… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
In our friendships we have to be wise that we choose godly people to be our friends. Somebody might say, well does… — Charles Stanley Copy Share Image
The mathematician who is without value to mathematicians, the thinker who is obscure or meaningless to thinkers, the dramatist who fails to… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
Spend your time on those that loves you unconditionally. Don't waste it on those that only loves you when the condition are… — Anurag Prakash Ray Copy Share Image
Just as it is agreed that we all wish to be happy, so it is that we all wish to be wise,… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
There's no greater sign of being a poor philosopher and wise man than wanting all of life to be wise and philosophical. — Giacomo Leopardi Copy Share Image
Being creative is having something to sell, or knowing how to sell something, or having sold something. It has taken over what… — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
What is a gentleman? It is to be honest, to be gentle, to be generous, to be brave, to be wise; and… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
You have to look at what you have right in front of you, at what it could be, and stop measuring it… — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share Image
Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause a while from learning to be wise. There mark what ills… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
For ages the world has been living by the stupidity of an old Roman adage that says if you want peace, prepare… — Oscar Arias Copy Share Image
In future, Clarissa," he said, "it might be wise to mention that you already have a man in your bed, to avoid… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
There is nothing more becoming any wise man, than to make choice of friends, for by them thou shalt be judged what… — Walter Raleigh Copy Share Image
Happiness is impossible, and even inconceivable, to a mind without scope and without pause, a mind driven by craving, pleasure, or fear.… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
I like the idea of the book being wiser than the person who wrote it. None of the novels I've written are… — Christopher Bollen Copy Share Image
I used to think there would be a blinding flash of light someday, and then I would be wise and calm and… — Margaret Laurence Copy Share Image