Wise Quotes · Page 65

“So may the New Year be a happy one to you, happy to many more whose happiness depends on you!”

— Charles Dickens

Imagination is more powerful and interesting than knowledge.

— Senoraroy

Everyone wants happiness without any pain , but you can't have a rainbow without a little rain

— Anonymous

Our Heavenly Father is far too wise and loves us far too much to give us everything we ask for.

— Mark Batterson

To a wise and good man the whole earth is his fatherland.

— Democritus

Thinking well to be wise: planning well, wiser: doing well wisest and best of all.

— Malcolm Forbes

Before you're old and wise, you have to be young and reckless.

— Suman Rai

Just because you have the numbers in Congress, doesn't mean it's wise to abuse your power.

— Miranda Devine

If the Wise be the happy man... he must be virtuous too; for, without virtue, happiness cannot be. This then is the…

— Thomas Jefferson

Applauds of the ignorant majority are worthless; applauds of the wise minority are priceless! Look carefully, who are applauding you? Look carefully,…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

I think humanity is not wise enough to know what genotype or somatype is going to be the most successful or the…

— Paul Di Filippo

To be excited and at the same time satisfied; to desire and possess -that has been described somewhere as the wise man's…

— Alec Waugh

A moody child and wildly wise Pursued the game with joyful eyes, Which chose, like meteors, their way, And rived the dark…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

We want market-based, consumer-based reforms in health care. We want to give people incentives to make wise choices in a marketplace, not…

— Tim Pawlenty

Life is so short that it is not wise to take roundabout ways, nor can we spend much time in waiting… We…

— Henry David Thoreau

“Money should not direct you to what to do and what not to do; the giver of the money is responsible for…

— Israelmore Ayivor

The people of the United States don't recognize it, but the oil industry has given the greatest gift to the people of…

— Anonymous

What we want to do is make sure they're not totally kept from what's going on in the world. We don't want…

— Alex Kendrick

When people are dying, they call their old enemies and try to forgive them and try to be forgiven by them. They…

— Robert Thurman

The child to be concerned about is the one who is actively unhappy, [in school]… In the long run, a child's emotional…

— Dorothy H Cohen

I think it's different in fashion, because even if I would be an outsider, I would still be in the middle of…

— Raf Simons

Keep the extent of your abilities unknown.The wise man does not allow his knowledge and abilities to be sounded to the bottom,…

— Baltasar Gracian

The Calormens have dark faces and long beards. They wear flowing robes and orange-colored turbans, and they are a wise, wealthy, courteous,…

— Anonymous

That the world is not the embodiment of an eternal rationality can be conclusively proved by the fact that the piece of…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

To be wise and eke to love, Is granted scarce to gods above.

— Edmund Spenser

“Follow your heart, listen to your inner voice, stop caring about what others think.”

— Roy T. Bennett

All this worldly wisdom was once the unnameable heresy of some wise man.

— Henry David Thoreau

“Every time we choose our past over our present we kill our future.”

— TemitOpe Ibrahim

A wise traveler never despises his own country. [It., Un viaggiatore prudente non disprezza mai il suo paese.]

— Carlo Goldoni

A wise doctor does not mutter incantations over a sore that needs the knife.

— Sophocles

The next best thing to being wise oneself is to live in a circle of those who are.

— Anonymous

Festination may prove Precipitation; Deliberating delay may be wise cunctation.

— Thomas Browne

You can't expect to be old and wise if you were never young and crazy

— Efiosiugbore Adebayo

As the water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it, so a wise man adapts himself to circumstances.

— Confucius

I cannot conceive of a greater loss than the loss of one's self-respect.

— Mahatma Gandhi

...the wise man knows that every experience is to be viewed as a blessing.

— Henry Miller

If you don't succeed at first, hide all evidence that you tried.

— Anonymous

“The ideal person is simply the one you love and who loves you back.”

— Augusto Branco

It would be necessary that they should be already sages to love wisdom...

— Friedrich Schiller

A wise man heedeth all things, and in his own eyes is a fool.

— Martin Farquhar Tupper