Wise Quotes · Page 78

Any fool can carry on, but a wise man knows how to shorten sail in time.

— Joseph Conrad

You can't change perception of people towards you but you can make yourself wise enough how to react.

— DrAnil Kr Sinha

If I ever acquire wisdom, I suppose I'll be wise enough to know what to do with it.

— Lamar Trotti

That conduct often seems ridiculous the secret reasons of which are wise and solid.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Because the weak do not want to get preyed on by the strong, they had to evolve

— Anonymous

If you run away now, you will be running away for the rest of your life

— Katekyo Hitman Reborn

“A mistake from a good person always gets treated as crime.”

— Pratik Akkawar

You don't remember people you love by the wise things they say but the silly things they do.

— Howard Jacobson

A good man and a wise man may at times be angry with the world, at times grieved for it; but be…

— Robert Southey

Wise is the one who learns from another´s mistakes. Less wise is the one who learns only from his own mistakes. The…

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

I think, writing-wise, I am probably more of a quilter than a weaver because I just get a little scrap here and…

— Rich Mullins

“Surely this is what death would be like: nothingness, oblivion, as the world continued to turn, heedless of her absence.”

— Meredith Duran

Anyone can carry his burden, however hard, until nightfall. Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

The thing about the BBC is I've grown up with it. It's 'Hancock,' Leonard Rossiter, Morecambe & Wise, 'Blackadder,' 'Fawlty Towers'... I…

— Lee Evans

“The fact that you made worse decisions in the past shouldn't be an excuse to make bad decisions in the present.”

— Sanhita Baruah

If we are going to be wise, spiritual people prepared to meet the crises of our age, we must be a studying,…

— J.P. Moreland

“When you are in the company of lunatics, behave like a lunatic. When you are in the company of intelligentsias, speak with…

— Michael Bassey Johnson

PERENNIAL wisdom from divine revelation and human experience dictates that all earthly things great or small, beautiful or ugly, good or bad,…

— Jonathan Moyo

I do not hide my feelings, though sometimes I get carried away. I can't remember what humiliation I had suffered at the…

— Persis Khambatta

The most attractive sentences are, perhaps, not the wisest, but the surest and roundest. They are spoken firmly and conclusively, as if…

— Henry David Thoreau

Security isn't what the wise person looks for; it's opportunity. And once we begin looking for that, we find it on every…

— Earl Nightingale

The director can be a dictator, but it's not wise to be. You have to choose the days to be a dictator…

— Rza

Nothing is so convenient as a decisive argument ... which must at least silence the most arrogant bigotry and superstition, and free…

— David Hume

The practice of medicine is an art, not a trade; a calling, not a business; a calling in which your heart will…

— William Osler

It's what I'd like from my life - to live and learn, be wise and to go on without bitterness.

— Heather Small

Love is womans business,and in business we all lay aside our natural weaknesses.

— Ali Bassam

It's a wise person who knows the difference between free speech and cheap talk.

— Doug Larson

That alone is wise which is just; that alone is enduring which is right.

— Henry George

The friends of gold will have to be extremely wise and moderate if they are to avoid a revolution.

— John Maynard Keynes

If thou hast never been a fool, be sure thou wilt never be a wise man.

— William Makepeace Thackeray

Hope is a dangerous thing, Raisa thought. Once kindled, it's hard to put out. It makes wise people into fools.

— Cinda Williams Chima

Be beautiful if you can, wise if you want to, but be respected - that is essential.

— Anna Gould

The Wise are silent, the Foolish speak, and children are thus led astray.

— Algernon Blackwood

Wise men have interpreted dreams, and the gods have laughed.

— Anonymous

I think health-wise, pro-wrestling is probably ten times worse for you than MMA.

— CM Punk

No wise man ever thought that a traitor should be trusted.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Aphorisms have never seduced anybody, but they have fooled some into considering themselves worldly-wise.

— Mason Cooley

Never chase women, chase your dreams then women will follow

— Anonymous

If you are a sparrow, don't attack the eagle; be wise! If you are an eagle, don't attack the sparrow; be just!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

Wine can of their wits the wise beguile, Make the sage frolic, and the serious smile

— Homer