Wise Quotes · Page 110

The lust of fame is the last that a wise man shakes off.

— Tacitus

The wise don't expect to find life worth living; they make it that way.

— Anonymous

The wise man thinks of fame just enough to avoid being despised.

— Epicurus

“Keeping hatred against someone is like helping him to torture you”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

“Saying No is not being a coward its a word of being wise”

— Angel Of Death

Generally a wise actor will be very careful about the person to whom he gives that power.

— William Mapother

“You’d be wise to remember whom you’re talking to, Isabetta,” he”

— Luanne Bennett

The wind cannot shake a mountain. Neither praise nor blame moves the wise man.

— Gautama Buddha

“Wise is the man who has the potential for height in his muscles but who renounces climbing in his consciousness. By virtue…

— Fernando Pessoa

When complaints are freely heard, deeply considered and speedily reformed, then is the utmost bound of civil liberty attained that wise men…

— John Milton

Creating Change - The first step to creating any change is deciding what you do want so that you have something to…

— Tony Robbins

They say a wise man learns from others mistakes, I learn from others success, why pay attention to the mistakes?

— Behdad Sami

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

An intelligent mind can overthink almost everything but a wise mind only thinks about what is needed to be thought.

— Terry Mark

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

“Most things, I find, are temporary and pass into distant memory with the next great event. But this commentary drew blood to…

— Nev March

The Quest for Prosperity is an important book. Written with verve and clarity, it reflects a deep understanding of global economic issues,…

— Robert Fogel

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

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

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

We do not believe any group of men adequate enough or wise enough to operate without scrutiny or without criticism. We know…

— J. Robert Oppenheimer

Genial manners are good, and power of accommodation to any circumstance, but the high prize of life, the crowning fortune of a…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life in the country teaches one that the really stimulating things are the quiet, natural things, and the really wearisome things are…

— Beverley Nichols

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

God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.

— Pierre Charron

Brains aren't everything. In fact in your case they're nothing.

— Russell Lynes

We may admire people for being wise, but we like them best when they are foolish.

— Mary Russell Mitford

It is often wise to reveal that which cannot be concealed for long.

— Friedrich Schiller

“It's not what we can do that makes us great, but what we can do but don't which make us great”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

He that's foolish in the fault, let him be wise in the punishment.

— George Herbert

Such a man, truly wise, creams off Nature leaving the sour and the dregs for philosophy and reason to lap up.

— Jonathan Swift

The wise man comes to God without saying a word and stands in awe of Him.

— Francis Chan

I write not to record what I think but to discover what I think

— David Malouf

Have you never heard what the wise man say : all of the future exists in the past.

— Truman Capote

“The different kinds of work require different people to perform the task. You must fulfil your specific task.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

If the melodies are strong, it's much easier to see which way I can take them sound-wise.

— Trentemøller

Nothing is more like a wise man than a fool who holds his tongue.

— Saint Francis de Sales

Wise men have but few confidants, and cunning ones none.

— Josh Billings

The wise man seeks death all his life, and for this reason death is not terrifying to him.

— Socrates

God gave us two ears and one mouth, so we can hear twice as much as we say

— Anonymous