Wise Quotes · Page 60

You never stop being a parent, Adam, no matter how old or wise your child becomes you'll see.

— Robert Charles Wilson

A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.

— Jonathan Swift

The whole Earth is at the hand of the wise man, since the fatherland of an elevated soul is the Universe.

— Democritus

For this is the mark of a wise and upright man, not to rail against the gods in misfortune.

— Aeschylus

Be careful, whom you let come close but more careful about whom you let go away...

— Sejal Jaiswal

I don't see the future as bright, language-wise. I see it as a glass half empty - and evaporating quickly.

— Dick Cavett

“We need Wisdom to seek for the Kindom and we need the Kingdom to have the Freedom to posess all other things!”

— Israelmore Ayivor

Who can think wise or stupid things at all that were not thought already in the past.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

To keep on trying in spite of disappointment and failure is the only way to keep young and brave. Failures become victories…

— Helen Keller

More important than anything else is for Americans to wise up to class warfare demagoguery and reject the politics of envy.

— Walter E. Williams

Is bread the better for kneading? so is the heart. Knead it then by spiritual exercises; or God must knead it by…

— Augustus William Hare

Better a life like a falling star, brief bright across the dark, than the long, long waiting of the immortals, loveless and…

— Poul Anderson

There are a lot of women out there who are doing crazy things behind closed doors sexual-wise and are afraid to admit…

— Lil' Kim

Love is like a black ant on a black stone in the pitch dark night. You would never see them if you…

— Siti Noor Husna

It is commonly, but erroneously, believed that it is easy to ask questions. A fool, it is said, can ask questions that…

— Cassius Jackson Keyser

The wise man tells not what he knows. It is not prudent to sport with one's head by revealing the king's secrets.

— Saadi

Isn't Bunson's training evil geniuses?" "Yes, mostly." "Well, is that wise? Having a mess of seedling evil geniuses falling in love with…

— Gail Carriger

The guitar to me, from the classical/gut-string guitar right through to Hendrix, et cetera, has all the range [of sound]. Within those…

— Jimmy Page

A wise nation preserves its records, gathers up its monuments, decorates the tombes of its illustrious dead, repairs its greatest structures and…

— Joseph Howe

My description of wisdom has nothing to do with benevolence and righteousness, it is to do with being wise in one's own…

— Zhuangzi

Unfortunately, what is thrown away is not only food and dispensable objects, but often human beings themselves, who are discarded as 'unnecessary.'…

— Pope Francis

If thou seest anything in thyself which may make thee proud, look a little further and thou shalt find enough to humble…

— Francis Quarles

Whoever is wise is apt to suspect and be diffident of himself, and upon that account is willing to "hearken unto counsel";…

— John Balguy

I need not print a line, nor conjure with the painter's tools to prove myself an artist ... Whilst in other spheres…

— J. D. Sedding

“I do not know who I am, said the wise man, and went his way of knowledge unto the end of days.”

— Sir Kristian Goldmund Aumann

The fool tells me his reason; the wise man persuades me with my own.

— Aristotle

Do the wise thing and the kind thing too, and make the best of us and not the worst.

— Charles Dickens

“Be ye therefore as wise as the serpents and as harmless as the doves.”

— Paulo Coelho

Life will always remain a gamble, with prizes sometimes for the imprudent, and blanks so often to the wise.

— Jerome K. Jerome

There are many questions which fools can ask that wise men cannot answer.

— George Polya

Great men are the commissioned guides of mankind, who rule their fellows because they are wiser.

— Thomas Carlyle

Don't treat people as bad as they are... treat them as good as you are.

— Anonymous

A wise man will never tell his wife to keep quiet. He will tell her she looks beautiful with her mouth closed.

— Anonymous

Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.

— Anonymous

To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man.

— Aristotle

Find yourself someone who will treat you like a princess and give yourself that happy ending.

— Anonymous

Rules were made for fools to follow and wise men to be guided by.

— Winston Churchill

Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.

— Ambrose Bierce

Fools call wise men fools. A wise man never calls any man a fool.

— Thomas A. Edison

A wise man learn from the mistakes of others while fools learn from their own mistakes.

— Anonymous