Wise Quotes · Page 55

We are, every one of us, like a wise guru in charge of a mental patient.

— Jamie Catto

Life is too short to be a fool so be wise coz you only have one life.

— David Christopher

The truly wise man is he who always believes the Bible against the opinions of any man.

— R. A. Torrey

The follies of the wise man are known to himself, but hidden from the world.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If you tell me I'm sensible in addition to normal and wise, I'm going to punch you in the stomach.

— Anonymous

Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the rest is in the hands of God.

— George Washington

It was so rare to find someone who was both so young and so wise, both so fresh and so jaded.

— Ally Carter

We always knew that name-recognition wise, that was really my one weakness.

— Erin O'Toole

The wise men are ashamed, they are dismayed and taken: lo, they have rejected the word of the Lord; and what wisdom…

— Jeremiah

I would advise anyone who aspires to a writing career that before developing his talent he would be wise to develop a…

— Harper Lee

Avoiding the appearance of queenly behavior is politically wise. But it does American culture no favors if a first lady tries so…

— Robin Givhan

The best test of whether someone is extremely stupid (or extremely wise) is whether financial and political news makes sense to him.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Lord of the golden tongue and smiting eyes; Great out of season and untimely wise: A man whose virtue, genius, grandeur, worth,…

— William Watson

It's better for men to play around when they are young. If they don not, when they get older, they run the…

— Gintama

Don't look for flaws as you go through life and even when you find them it is wise and kind to be…

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

My mother is very wise and intelligent. If I have children and can do half as good a job as she did…

— Brandon Lee

Let your first business be to perform your duties at home. But, inasmuch as you are wise stewards, you will find time…

— Eliza R. Snow

Know thou the self (spirit) as riding in a chariot, The body as the chariot. Know thou the intellect as the chariot-driver,…

— Albert Pike

There often seems to be a playfulness to wise people, as if either their equanimity has as its source this playfulness or…

— Edward Hoagland

Learn the words of wisdom uttered by the wise and apply them in your own life. Live them - but do not…

— Anonymous

“In case you’re short on definitions, here’s one. Insanity: ‘Destroying the very things that sustain us.’ And if we’re so short-sighted so…

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

A person is wise who does not only know what is right and wrong, but also he knows very well his own…

— Nirmala Srivastava

Books fall open, you fall in, delighted where you've never been; hear voices not once heard before, reach world on world through…

— David McCord

I think sometime we will go to Mars and I think we'll explore it with humans sometime, but I think it's really…

— John Glenn

You could think of mindfulness as wise and affectionate attention.

— Jon Kabat-Zinn

Fear not the anger of the wise to raise; Those best can bear reproof who merit praise.

— Alexander Pope

Without being legalistic, we should be careful and wise in all decisions we make.

— Craig Groeschel

“Who in the universe halts when the enemy tells them to?”

— Sherwood Smith

It takes pride to be anxious – I am not wise enough to know how my life should go.

— Timothy Keller

A wise judge, by the craft of the law, was never seduced from its purpose.

— Robert Southey

The more pity, that fools may not speak wisely what wise men do foolishly.

— William Shakespeare

Though we may be learned by another's knowledge, we can never be wise but by our own experience.

— Michel de Montaigne

Never let your inferiors do you a favor - it will be extremely costly.

— H. L. Mencken

Keep it up, wise guy. I'm always going to be taller than you once you're lying unconscious on the ground.

— Jim Butcher

A L L men are ORDINARY men; the EXTRAORDINARY men are those who KNOW it.

— G K Chesterton

It is a wise man that does know the contented man is never poor, whilst the discontented man is never rich.

— Frank Herbert

Only fools use their mouth to speak. A smart man uses his brain, and a wise man uses his heart.

— Jack Ma

“Sometimes loneliness is just the result of a life full of defenses.”

— Augusto Branco

So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Seek not greater wealth, but simpler pleasure; not higher fortune, but deeper felicity.

— Anonymous