Wise Quotes · Page 111

I resolved to stop accumulating and begin the infinitely more serious and difficult task of wise distribution.

— Andrew Carnegie

To claim power over what you do not understand is not wise, nor is the end of it likely to be good.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Of all the gifts that wise Providence grants us to make life full and happy, friendship is the most beautiful.

— Epicurus

Of all the arts in which the wise excel, nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.

— Andre Breton

Wise books For half the truths they hold are honored tombs.

— George Eliot

Aristippus said that a wise man's country was the world.

— Diogenes Laertius

A wise man does not waste so good a commodity as lying for naught.

— Mark Twain

To-morrow I will live, the fool does say; To-day itself's too late, the wise lived yesterday.

— Martial

NOT all fingers are of same LENGTH, but when they are BENT, all stand in EQUAL length. LIFE becomes easy when we…

— Babloo

A wise man should marry a virgin of a respectable family even if she is deformed. He should not marry one of…

— Chanakya

People do not naturally become morally excellent or practically wise. They become so, if at all, only as the result of lifelong…

— Aristotle

My blessed California, you are so wise. You render death abstract, efficient, clean. Your afterlife is only real estate, And in his…

— Dana Gioia

A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is…

— Moliere

I wondered at him, so wise and so foolish, to have lived with me all these months and not know that the…

— Maria McCann

We think we don't deserve love, we think if we let it in we'll become too soft. But a wise man named…

— Morrie Schwartz

The wise woman patterns her life on the theory and practice of modern banking. She never gives her love, but only lends…

— Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

We're not forcing people... you can support and be a supporter, but if you go beyond that and become a member, [and]…

— Jacob Zuma

All cultures forged by nations—the noble indigenous past of America, the brilliant civilization of Europe, the wise history of Asian nations, and…

— Subcomandante Marcos

It is the nature of the noble and the good and the wise that they impart to us of their nobility and…

— Felix Adler

The good Education of Youth has been esteemed by wise Men in all Ages, as the surest Foundation of the Happiness both…

— Benjamin Franklin

When a child first catches adults out -- when it first walks into his grave little head that adults do not always…

— John Steinbeck

Only Christ could build a bridge to God with only two pieces of wood. The Christian life is a life of paradoxes.…

— Asahel Nettleton

THERE are no wise few; for in all men rages the folly of the Fall. Take your strongest, happiest, handsomest, best born,…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

The gravest error a thinking person can make is to believe that one particular version of history is absolute fact. History is…

— Frank Herbert

may I be I is the only prayer--not may I be great or good or beautiful or wise or strong.

— Anonymous

It is wise to remember that you are one of those who can be fooled some of the time.

— Laurence J. Peter

Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.

— Benjamin Franklin

How terrible is wisdom, when it brings no profit to the man that's wise

— Sophocles

Music-wise, I listen to everything. Leonard Cohen, Randy Newman - I guess I like a lot of '70s music.

— Bret McKenzie

Levity is often less foolish and gravity less wise than each of them appears.

— Charles Caleb Colton

Choose a good disagreeable friend, if you be wise--a surly, steady, economical, rigid fellow.

— William Makepeace Thackeray

For the wise man looks into space and he knows there is no limited dimensions.

— Anonymous

Travel brings wisdom only to the wise. It renders the ignorant more ignorant than ever.

— Joe Abercrombie

Wisdom is not communicable. The wisdom which a wise man tries to communicate always sounds foolish.

— Hermann Hesse

Poland needs reform of the judiciary, but I am a supporter of a wise reform.

— Andrzej Duda

I've often heard it said, as the common proverb goes, that a fool can teach a wise man well.

— Francois Rabelais

Novels are . . . an unsurpassed form to understand people.

— Henning Mankell

Your giving is sacred and therefore should be kept secret. It is wise to give quietly with no strings attached.

— Catherine Ponder

It's always wise to raise questions about the most obvious and simple assumption

— C. West Churchman

The wise know that foolish legislation is a rope of sand, which perishes in the twisting.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson