Wise Quotes · Page 67

The wise man lives as long as he ought, not so long as he can.

— Michel de Montaigne

A man cannot be wise enough to be a great artist without being wise enough to wish to be a philosopher.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Energy wise, playing the drums was a lot of fun; I just felt like it was a natural fit for me.

— Hank Williams III

We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.

— Lyndon B. Johnson

I quote myself to a severe of knowledge. what I quote I severe. what I knowledge is a wisdom full of sensory.

— Anonymous

Money loss nothing loss time loss something loss but . . . . . . Character loss everything loss.

— Babloo

A group of idiots led by a wise man can defeat a group of wise people led by an idiot.

— Senora Roy

To be brave in misfortune is to be worthy of manhood; to be wise in misfortune is to conquer fate.

— Agnes Repplier

Blumenthal goes straight to the heart in these poems. Gorgeously wrought, surprising, true, wise, elegiac, they leave me with a sense of…

— Lynn Freed

No greater evil can a man endure Than a bad wife, nor find a greater good Than one both good and wise;…

— Sophocles

Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.

— Francis Bacon

If you are wearing a bandana you better have something wise to say, because you are starting with a credibility deficit.

— Demetri Martin

“Would you not marry even for love?" "Love does not seem to bring anyone much happiness as far as I have observed.…

— Sharon Shinn

Advertising. I'd definitely like to try that. In fact, it was a genuine second choice career-wise. I'd be good at selling stuff…

— Tony Blackburn

“You have to learn where your weaknesses end and your strengths starts or you will spend your life focusing on all that…

— Nikki rowe

If you are truly wise, you love life very deeply. You love the things in your life, transient though they may be.

— Frederick Lenz

Every era has a currency that buys souls. In some the currency is pride, in others it is hope, in still others…

— Eric Hoffer

The elective franchise is withheld from one half of its citizens...because the word 'people,' by an unparalleled exhibition of lexicon graphical acrobatics,…

— Mary Church Terrell

He is a wise man who seeks by every legitimate means to make all the money he can honestly, for money can…

— B. C. Forbes

If you are an ardent reader, seek not brilliant and erudite texts; otherwise the demon of haughtiness will strike your heart. But…

— Ephrem the Syrian

If this nation is to be wise as well as strong, if we are to achieve our destiny, then we need more…

— Anonymous

Again I take a taxi to Clichy address, but feel that I do not want to go on loving Henry more actively…

— Anais Nin

I thought it was a stroke of genius that Hans Selye used the word stress, because it's true that if you don't…

— Jon Kabat-Zinn

Pierre Trudeau was too much of a professional politician to be described as a good man, nor, it can be argued despite…

— Peter Brimelow

Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.

— H. L. Mencken

“A person should be wise enough to come up with their own quotes”

— John Maher

There's a time for daring and there's a time for caution, and a wise man understands which is called for.

— Robin Williams

Whatever you do in your life, try to become a kind, and wise human being.

— Nawang Khechog

No matter how hard life would become, one must not give in

— Alvin

Life is like a mirror. If you frown at it, it frowns back. If you smile at it, it returns the greeting.

— Anonymous

Three things a wise man will not trust, The wind, the sunshine of an April day, And woman's plighted faith.

— Robert Southey

The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.

— Maya Angelou

A good writer is an expert on nothing except himself. And on that subject, if he is wise, he holds his tongue.

— John le Carre

I think you have to be wise and know your limitations and know how to work within them.

— Panos Cosmatos

I sense a humor. I sense a wise fact. I sense the humorous to be a wise choice of the fact.

— Anonymous

A common man marvels at uncommon things. A wise man marvels at the commonplace.

— Confucius

An educated man is one who knows a lot and says nothing about it.

— Gracie Fields

It is the mind that makes one wise or ignorant, bound or emancipated.

— Ramakrishna

I'm not wise enough to know what is the right immigration policy for the United States of America.

— Donald E. Graham

True success does not always come in forms that are visible or measurable.

— Mike Hernacki