I read a lot, I write a lot, and I have conversations with people I think are intelligent and wise. — Montaigne Copy Share Image
“Least said, soonest mended," Toby quipped, quoting a saying Jess often used.” — Jean Little Copy Share Image
A wise person is full of questions. A dull person is full of answers. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
That's what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he's wise. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“As they say, a word to the wise is sufficient. And here I’ve gone and written five paragraphs.” — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“Only one who knows himself to be neither wise nor good can begin to be either.” — Christina Askounis Copy Share Image
Make the most of prayer. ... Prayer is the master-weapon. We should be wise if we used it more, and did so… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Precedents deliberately established by wise men are entitled to great weight. They are evidence of truth, but only evidence...But a solitary precedent...which… — Henry Clay Copy Share Image
If you miss an opportunity don't fill ur eyes with tears. It may hide yet another opportunity lying in front of you — Babloo Copy Share Image
It isn't wise to be rude to one's mother. She knows everything about your childhood that is potentially embarassing. — Mercedes Lackey Copy Share Image
What I loved about it was language-wise it wasn't that finely-tuned-perfect-insult-for-the-perfect-situation that sometimes we try and do on Veep. — David Mandel Copy Share Image
“A pearl forgotten on the beach, even if it is not noticed, picked up or duly recognized, never loses its value.” — Augusto Branco Copy Share Image
Epicurus was not at all interested in what we would call the problems of mass society, and he thought civic politics was… — Catherine Wilson Copy Share Image
What blockheads are those wise persons, who think it necessary that a child should comprehend everything it reads. — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
The true historian, therefore, seeking to compose a true picture of the thing acted, must collect facts and combine facts. Methods will… — Augustine Birrell Copy Share Image
We call ourselves Homo sapiens--man the wise--because our intelligence is so important to us. For thousands of years, we have tried to… — Stuart J. Russell Copy Share Image
Even the mind depends so much on temperament and the disposition of one's bodily organs that, if it is possible to find… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
If the way which I have pointed out as leading to this result (i.e., power over the emotions by which the wise… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
No serious sociologist any longer believes that the voice of the people expresses any divine or specially wise and lofty idea. The… — Edward Bernays Copy Share Image
Bipartisanship on behalf of an imprudent policy can be folly, just as partisanship on behalf of a just cause can be wise.… — James M. Lindsay Copy Share Image
Whitestorm was experienced, wise and brave. When Firestar had been made deputy, he had shown not a scrap of resentment that a… — Erin Hunter Copy Share Image
I never was attached to that great sect, Whose doctrine is, that each one should select Out of the crowd a mistress… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Wise men never sit and wail their loss, but cheerily seek how to redress their harms. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Aim not, if you are wise, to make water run uphill nor try pulling milk from the udders of a billy-goat.” — Neil Boyd Copy Share Image
The wise person doesn't ask, "What have I achieved?" but rather, "What have I contributed?" — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Customs may not be as wise as laws, but they are always more popular — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
I read your piece on Plato. Holmes, when you strike at a king, you must kill him. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“The ability to make wise choices is the most valuable skill a person can develop.” — Abhishek Ratna Copy Share Image
Clever people master life; the wise illuminate it and create fresh difficulties. — Emil Nolde Copy Share Image
As long as you can start, you are all right. The juice will come. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought. — Matsuo Basho Copy Share Image
