It is easy to be wise on behalf of others than to be so for ourselves. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
See nations slowly wise, and meanly just, to buried merit raise the tardy bust. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
It is never wise to turn aside from knowing, however the knowing comes. — Mary Stewart Copy Share Image
The dream we are living has absolutely no purpose other than our awakening. — Tony Parsons Copy Share Image
The wise man of Miletus thus declared the first of things is water — John Stuart Blackie Copy Share Image
I never made one of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The natural way of ensuring that the past continues to live in the present and to inform the future is to write… — Ian Jack Copy Share Image
“Most things, I find, are temporary and pass into distant memory with the next great event. But this commentary drew blood to… — Nev March Copy Share Image
Children are wise in a funny kind of way. They haven't developed so many vested interests of self. There is a wisdom,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
A wise man should marry a virgin of a respectable family even if she is deformed. He should not marry one of… — Chanakya Copy Share Image
NOT all fingers are of same LENGTH, but when they are BENT, all stand in EQUAL length. LIFE becomes easy when we… — Babloo Copy Share Image
An intelligent mind can overthink almost everything but a wise mind only thinks about what is needed to be thought. — Terry Mark Copy Share Image
They say a wise man learns from others mistakes, I learn from others success, why pay attention to the mistakes? — Behdad Sami Copy Share Image
It's the same struggle for each of us, and the same path out: the utterly simple, infinitely wise, ultimately defiant act of… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Is this what you have in mind,' I asked the Dalai Lama, 'when you say in teachings that the buddhas and bodhisattvas… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In your deliberations, when seeking to determine the military conditions, let them be made the basis of a comparison, in this wise:… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
Sometimes it is not wise to make a second plan; it diminishes the power of the first plan! In risky paths, make… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
We tried some experiments in mind reading which were not very successful. Think mind reading contrary to common sense, wise provision of… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
The Quest for Prosperity is an important book. Written with verve and clarity, it reflects a deep understanding of global economic issues,… — Robert Fogel Copy Share Image
This is one of their [the Christians'] rules. Let no man that is learned, wise, or prudent come among us: but if… — Aulus Cornelius Celsus Copy Share Image
We are driven by self-interest, it’s necessary to survive. But we need wise self-interest that is generous and co-operative, taking others’ interests… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Life in the country teaches one that the really stimulating things are the quiet, natural things, and the really wearisome things are… — Beverley Nichols Copy Share Image
The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation. — Isaac D'Israeli Copy Share Image
Libraries have always been humanities' way of preserving its collective wisdom — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
The foolish man wonders at the unusual, but the wise man at the usual. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
When you are in love you are not wise; or, when you are wise you are not in love. — Publilius Syrus Copy Share Image
It's weird - sort of not terribly wise - to take a book that was successful and then change its cover. — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
The wise are not so much wiser than others as respecters of their own wisdom. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A wise son makes a glad father, But a foolish son is the grief of his mother. — Solomon Copy Share Image
We cannot expect to be happy always ... by experiencing evil as well as good we become wise. — Hans Christian Andersen Copy Share Image
I had a very wise mother. She always kept books that were my grade level in our house. — Beverly Cleary Copy Share Image
The wise are free from perplexities; the virtuous from anxiety; and the bold from fear. — Confucius Copy Share Image
In this sacred Dispensation conflict and contention are in no wise permitted. — Abdu'l-Bahá Copy Share Image
Though pedantry denies, It's plain the Bible means That Solomon grew wise While talking with his queens. — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
The man who can keep a secret may be wise, but he is not half as wise as the man with no… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If somebody is not on the same page with me humor wise, I can't give them that. — Stephan Pastis Copy Share Image
Fools usually know best that which the wise despair of ever comprehending. — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Copy Share Image