License they mean when they cry Liberty; For who loves that, must first be wise and good. — John Milton Copy Share Image
The hallway of every man's life is paced with pictures; pictures gay and pictures gloomy, all useful, for if we be wise,… — Sean O'Casey Copy Share Image
Spend your time on those that loves you unconditionally. Don't waste it on those that only loves you when the condition are… — Anurag Prakash Ray Copy Share Image
We must be wise taskmasters and not require of ourselves what we cannot possibly perform. Recreation we must have. Otherwise, the strings… — Elizabeth Prentiss Copy Share Image
The mathematician who is without value to mathematicians, the thinker who is obscure or meaningless to thinkers, the dramatist who fails to… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
Being creative is having something to sell, or knowing how to sell something, or having sold something. It has taken over what… — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
What is a gentleman? It is to be honest, to be gentle, to be generous, to be brave, to be wise; and… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
You have to look at what you have right in front of you, at what it could be, and stop measuring it… — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share Image
Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause a while from learning to be wise. There mark what ills… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
There is nothing more becoming any wise man, than to make choice of friends, for by them thou shalt be judged what… — Walter Raleigh Copy Share Image
Happiness is impossible, and even inconceivable, to a mind without scope and without pause, a mind driven by craving, pleasure, or fear.… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
I like the idea of the book being wiser than the person who wrote it. None of the novels I've written are… — Christopher Bollen Copy Share Image
I used to think there would be a blinding flash of light someday, and then I would be wise and calm and… — Margaret Laurence Copy Share Image
Always do I recall the parting words uttered by my old governor: "My boy, never . . ." I won't set 'em… — Robert Baden-Powell Copy Share Image
Where we are from... [s]tories are factual. If a farmer is declared a music virtuoso by the state, everyone had better start… — Adam Johnson Copy Share Image
... you must hasten to oppose pernicious pride of mind, before it penetrates into the marrow of your bones. Resist it, curb… — Lorenzo Scupoli Copy Share Image
These days people don't search for the Truth. People study simply in order to find knowledge necessary to make a living, raise… — Ajahn Chah Copy Share Image
Just as it is agreed that we all wish to be happy, so it is that we all wish to be wise,… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
There's no greater sign of being a poor philosopher and wise man than wanting all of life to be wise and philosophical. — Giacomo Leopardi Copy Share Image
Be wise. Treat yourself, your mind, sympathetically, with loving kindness. If you are gentle with yourself, you will become gentle with others. — Thubten Yeshe Copy Share Image
Quit smoking, and observe posted speed limits. This will improve your odds of getting old enough to be wise. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
If you sat down and you wrote a script, you may write something that's way beyond what you've ever seen me do,… — Morgan Freeman Copy Share Image
If you are to be among the noble you must be noble. If you are to be among the wise, you must… — Hugh B. Brown Copy Share Image
What would you be like if you had white hair and had not given up your principles? It might be wise as… — Bernice Johnson Reagon Copy Share Image
Be wise as thou art cruel, do not press My tongue-tied patience with too much disdain: Lest sorrow lend me words and… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
To be wise means to be a teacher, means to be a soul winner. That's our business - That's our only business! — J. Frank Norris Copy Share Image
In a word, if this country can steer clear of European politics, stand firm on its bottom, and be wise and temperate… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Remember, you cannot be both young and wise. Young people who pretend to be wise to the ways of the world are… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
Thus, statesmanlike, I'll saucily impose, And safe from action, valiantly advise; Sheltered in impotence, urge you to blows, And being good for… — John Wilmot Copy Share Image
Christianity is the only true and perfect religion; and... in proportion as mankind adopt its principles and obey its precepts, they will… — Benjamin Rush Copy Share Image
To appreciate nonsense you must first acquire wisdom, then compromise the two; only then will the fool understand you, and believe himself… — Ernest Chapman Copy Share Image
Be wise today; 'tis madness to defer. Next day the fatal precedent will plead; thus on, til wisdom is pushed our of… — Edward Young Copy Share Image
Tis not in battles that from youth we train The Governor who must be wise and good, And temper with the sternness… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
There are three marks of a superior man: being virtuous, he is free from anxiety; being wise, he is free from perplexity;… — Confucius Copy Share Image
We may simply not be wise enough to do some of the kinds of engineering things that people are talking about doing. — Leon Kass Copy Share Image
To be a Jew is to be strong with a strength that has outlived persecutions. It is to be wise against ignorance,… — Phyllis Bottome Copy Share Image
To be free is not necessarily to be wise. Wisdom comes with counsel, with the frank and free conference of untrammeled men… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
As the art of reading (after a certain stage in one's education) isthe art of skipping, so the art of being wise… — William James Copy Share Image