Wise Quotes · Page 74

“Wise words are wise no matter whose mouth they came from.”

— Kristina M. Sanchez

“Wisemen's minds and hearts live together under the same roof of wisdom”

— Munia Khan

“A practical rule: a man which is wise in one area may be silly in others.”

— Albert Camus

We are not joining the coalition of the idiots. We are joining the coalition of the wise.

— Carolyn Parrish

Crowds of minds can be wise, but crowds of bodies just aren't.

— John Seabrook

When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.

— Winston Churchill

There is nobility in the struggle, you don't have to win.

— Sharon Pollock

If you don't have a vision for the future, then your future is threatened to be a repeat of the past.

— A. R. Bernard

I may not be the greatest person, but I'm willing to learn from my past, failures and wrongs; to be better, smarter,…

— Anonymous

A wise governor told me a long time ago, political capital you don't get more of by keeping it. You get it…

— Scott Walker

On woman Nature did bestow two eyes, Like Hemian's bright lamps, in matchless beauty shining, Whose beams do soonest captivate the wise…

— Robert Greene

Scratch the surface in a typical boardroom and we're all just cavemen with briefcases, hungry for a wise person to tell us…

— Alan Kay

The wine urges me on, the bewitching wine, which sets even a wise man to singing and to laughing gently and rouses…

— Homer

Fiction is a house with many stately mansions, but also one in which it is wise, at least sometimes, to swing from…

— Michael Dirda

“A wise person knows that he should not allow his roots to grow too deep in this world, for the deeper they…

— Charbel Tadros

Keeping a relatively small, predominantly U.S. Special Forces presence in Afghanistan to continue to train the Afghan army past December 2016 is…

— Peter Bergen

I never had a dog that showed a human fear of death. Death, to a dog, is the final unavoidable compulsion, the…

— James Thurber

“Modern Education may make one intelligent but not wise. Wisdom comes from character, social consciousness, self awareness, human values, conscience that helps…

— Jeroninio Almeida

[...] endless action and reaction. Those beautifully rounded pebbles which you gather on the sand and which you hold in your hand…

— Frederick Douglass

The monsters of our childhood do not fade away, neither are they ever wholly monstrous. But neither, in my experience, do we…

— John le Carre

The Wise County Bookmobile is one of the most beautiful sights in the world to me. When I see it lumbering down…

— Adriana Trigiani

“A lot of the situations that we put ourselves in are similar to a cat in a yard full of dogs. We…

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

We were brought up in a world which was based on Aristotle. Science-wise and everything, that's really quite exciting and you learn…

— Lawrence Weiner

I have an American son and an American partner, so marriage might logistically make sense at one point. My partner is a…

— Evangeline Lilly

He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.

— Voltaire

Tis well to borrow from the good and the great; 'Tis wise to learn: 'tis God-like to create!

— John Godfrey Saxe

The problem with the wise is they are so filled with doubts while the dull are so certain.

— Bertrand Russell

A fool marvels at rare things, but a wise man at common ones.

— Confucius

Only fools think they're wise; the rest of us just muddle through as we can.

— Charles de Lint

“I didn't live a very wise life myself, but it was a good one and a grown up one.”

— Josephine Leslie

I've got great faith in the essential fairness and decency - you may say goodness - of the human being.

— Norman Vincent Peale

Even a god finds it hard to love and be wise at the same time. -Amare et sapere vix deo conceditur

— Publilius Syrus

A wise player ought to accept his throws and score them, not bewail his luck.

— Sophocles

Its so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and then dont say it.

— Ritu Ghatourey

Wise men are more dependent on fools than fools on wise men.

— Cato the Younger

Grudges are like hand grenades: it is wise to release them before they destroy you.

— Barbara Johnson

A true friend sticks with you through thick and thin no matter what.

— Kayla Mueller

Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.

— James Buckham Kennedy

If you dont have any enemies, then you are not as wise as you think.

— Vikrant Parsai

Had I succeeded well, I had been reckoned amongst the wise; our minds are so disposed to judge from the event.

— Euripides