Wise Quotes · Page 50

Sometimes its wise to be foolish.

— Dr Kurien S Thomas

“Truly, he who is yonder will be a wise man.”

— Miriam Lichtheim

I may be pretty. But I'm smart too.

— Honestly Idgaf

History admires the wise, but elevates the brave.

— Edmund Morris

His bark is worse than his bite.

— George Herbert

“Know yourself and be forever, wise.”

— Stan Arney

“…but I never shall be very wise, I'm afraid.”

— Louisa May Alcott

The wise with hope support the pains of life.

— Euripides

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

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

— George Eliot

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

— Andre Breton

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

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

— Andrew Carnegie

No person in this world is born as a friend or as an enemy Our behaviour,attitude and character makes them what they…

— Babloo

For my boyhood's friend hath fallen, the pillar of my trust, The true, the wise, the beautiful, is sleeping in the dust.

— George Stillman Hillard

While people judge others from their own moral standpoint, the wise person looks also at the point of view of another.

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

Its very well proved that a strong will power and determination can take human to moon and above, but still some of…

— Senoraroy

Remember that other people may be totally wrong. But they don't think so. Don't condemn them. Any fool can do that. Try…

— Dale Carnegie

It's a wise man who profits by his own experience, but it's a good deal wiser one who lets the rattlesnake bite…

— Josh Billings

We are sorry to confess that biological hypotheses have not yet completely got out of the second phase, and that ghost of…

— Ludwig Buchner

Though through all his life a fool associates with a wise man, he yet understands not the Dharma, as the spoon, the…

— Gautama Buddha

The artist may rightly venture the opinion that he does not convey ideas, does not preach, nor that he intents to convert…

— Antoni Tapies

It is the easiest thing in the world for us to obey God when He commands us to do what we like,…

— Theodore L. Cuyler

There are always two kinds of people in every country: Progressives and reactionaries; wise people and ignorant; democrats and fascists; libertarians and…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

One wise decision I made was buying a plot of land with planning permission in Richmond, and building my own five-bedroom home…

— Anthea Turner

I shall take my present leave - but not without resorting once more to the benign Parent of the Human Race in…

— George Washington

What am I then...? Everything that I have seen, heard, and observed I have collected and exploited. My works have been nourished…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

[A]ll popular and well-mixed governments [republics] . . . are ever established by wise and good men, and can never be upheld…

— Algernon Sidney

I'm sympathetic to the people who go, "Whoa, we'd like to have the benevolent, wise dictator. It will all work much more…

— Reid Hoffman

Some wisdom you must learn from one who's wise

— Euripides

I think people are wise to keep love and work separate.

— Rachel McAdams

Do not try to seem wise to others.

— Epictetus

If you love a woman from afar, you are not a wise man.

— Vikrant Parsai

Wise man also fears a weak enemy.

— Publilius Syrus

Confidence gives a fool the advantage over a wise man.

— William Hazlitt

The mouse is wise, but the cat is wiser.

— Tycho Brahe

He that walketh with wise men shall be wise.

— Solomon