“But let the wise be warned against too great readiness at explanation: it multiplies the sources of mistake, lengthening the sum for… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Many a maid have I won by a quarrel, when flattery was in no wise helpful; but take heed that thou art… — Gelett Burgess Copy Share Image
My policy is trust, peace, and to put aside the bayonet. I do not think the wise policy is to decide contested… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
You can put out an album and it could be totally out of the window as far as what you want to… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
Someone has to make the final decision, but the wise leader gathers information and seeks counsel - after deciding who among those… — John E Ferling Copy Share Image
The wise man seeks little joys, knowing that life is long and that his quota of great joys is distinctly limited. — William Feather Copy Share Image
The Bible is to us what the star was to the wise men; but if we spend all our time in gazing… — Thomas Adams Copy Share Image
O wise man! Give your wealth only to the worthy and never to others. The water of the sea received by the… — Chanakya Copy Share Image
Do not test out your mind on the grounds that you are examining what seductive and impure thoughts look like, imagining that,… — Isaac of Nineveh Copy Share Image
In Tharoor's hands [the story of modern India] is transformed into Mahabharata magic… Endlessly inventive, irreverent, wise, ingenious,... it takes on at… — M. G. Vassanji Copy Share Image
That the world is not the embodiment of an eternal rationality can be conclusively proved by the fact that the piece of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Keep the extent of your abilities unknown.The wise man does not allow his knowledge and abilities to be sounded to the bottom,… — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
The Calormens have dark faces and long beards. They wear flowing robes and orange-colored turbans, and they are a wise, wealthy, courteous,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think it's different in fashion, because even if I would be an outsider, I would still be in the middle of… — Raf Simons Copy Share Image
The child to be concerned about is the one who is actively unhappy, [in school]… In the long run, a child's emotional… — Dorothy H Cohen Copy Share Image
There is oftentimes a great deal of knowledge where there is but little wisdom to improve that knowledge. It is not the… — Thomas Brooks Copy Share Image
Any group has a sense of who it is and what is values, but this sense often remains beneath the surface. A… — Diane Dreher Copy Share Image
It is wise to keep in mind that no success or failure is necessarily final. Success is not the key to happiness.… — Herman Cain Copy Share Image
The true use of history, whether civil or military, is not to make man clever for the next time, it is to… — Michael Howard Copy Share Image
A wise man once said, 'Instead of crying, I keep on trying.' And that wise man is me, because I just made… — Bobby Bones Copy Share Image
No matter the barbs of fate that frustrate you, no matter how stacked against you the cards of fortune. . . .… — Uell Stanley Andersen Copy Share Image
The best and most popular novelists do not, as a rule, have children in their books at all, and this is wise.… — E. M. Delafield Copy Share Image
O, to bring back the great Homeric time, The simple manners and the deed sublime: When the wise Wanderer, often foiled by… — Mortimer Collins Copy Share Image
“You have to learn where your weaknesses end and your strengths starts or you will spend your life focusing on all that… — Nikki rowe Copy Share Image
If you are truly wise, you love life very deeply. You love the things in your life, transient though they may be. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Would you not marry even for love?" "Love does not seem to bring anyone much happiness as far as I have observed.… — Sharon Shinn Copy Share Image
Advertising. I'd definitely like to try that. In fact, it was a genuine second choice career-wise. I'd be good at selling stuff… — Tony Blackburn Copy Share Image
If you are wearing a bandana you better have something wise to say, because you are starting with a credibility deficit. — Demetri Martin Copy Share Image
No greater evil can a man endure Than a bad wife, nor find a greater good Than one both good and wise;… — Sophocles Copy Share Image
Blumenthal goes straight to the heart in these poems. Gorgeously wrought, surprising, true, wise, elegiac, they leave me with a sense of… — Lynn Freed Copy Share Image
Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The shallow consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise man sees in it, on the contrary, the… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Wise people have an inward sense of what is beautiful, and the highest wisdom is to trust this intuition and be guided… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
For take thy ballaunce if thou be so wise, And weigh the winds that under heaven doth blow; Or weigh the light… — Edmund Spenser Copy Share Image
When we stop interfering and are wise enough to let the psychophysiological connection work for us instead of against us, our minds… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
The Land of Faery, Where nobody gets old and godly and grave, Where nobody gets old and crafty and wise, Where nobody… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Our lady the Common Law is a very wise old lady though she still has something to learn in telling what she… — Frederick Pollock Copy Share Image
When the wise man opens his mouth, the beauties of his soul present themselves to the view, like the statues in a… — Pythagoras Copy Share Image
The happiness of those who want to be popular depends on others; the happiness of those who seek pleasure fluctuates with moods… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
There is an old and very wise Native American saying: Every time you point a finger in scorn—there are three remaining fingers… — Alyson Noel Copy Share Image