Wisdom is like electricity. There is no permanently wise man, but men capable of wisdom, who, being put into certain company, or… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In matters of conscience that is the best sense which every wise man takes in before he hath sullied his understanding with… — Jeremy Taylor Copy Share Image
“I do not myself think there is any superior rationality in being unhappy. The wise man will be as happy as circumstances… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The wise man who has become accustomed to necessities knows better how to share with others than how to take from them,… — Epicurus Copy Share Image
To become wise you have to want to experience certain experiences, and so to run into their open jaws. This is very… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The Voice There is a voice inside of you That whispers all day long, "I feel this is right for me, I… — Shel Silverstein Copy Share Image
“De wijze heeft geen onwrikbare beginselen. Hij past zich aan anderen aan. (Free translation into English: The wise man has no firm… — Lao-Tse Copy Share Image
[F]or as Socrates says that a wise man is a citizen of the world, so I thought that a wise woman was… — Sarah Fielding Copy Share Image
Alexander the Great once said that 'I would rather live a short life of glory than a long one of obscurity!' What… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
When there is sympathy, there needs but one wise man in a company and all are wise,--so, a blockhead makes a blockhead… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Someone once said that a fool can put on his coat better than a wise man can put it on for him.… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Union of the weakest develops strength not wisdom. Can all men, together, avenge one of the leaves that have fallen in autumn?… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
“Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness to someone else ... Knowledge can… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“If anger were money, only a fool would greedily save it up. And a wise man would let it slip out of… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
Get a friend to tell you your faults, or better still, welcome an enemy who will watch you keenly and sting you… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“ORIGEN: God cannot be called wise in the way that human beings are wise, because a wise man merely has a share… — Cindy Crosby Copy Share Image
Life is a pilgrimage. The wise man does not rest by the roadside inns. He marches direct to the illimitable domain of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Even a fool recognizes that there is great sadness in a bucket of tears. But only a wise man thinks to conserve… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
The man who has sufficient power over himself to wait until his nature has recovered its even balance is the truly wise… — Giacomo Casanova Copy Share Image
Praise has different effects, according to the mind it meets with; it makes a wise man modest, but a fool more arrogant,… — Owen Feltham Copy Share Image
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