Wise Quotes · Page 78

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

— Mike Hernacki

The gods never let us love and be wise at the same time.

— Publilius Syrus

If silence is good for the wise, how much better is it for the foolish!

— Ivan Panin

You’re in charge of your mind. You can help it grow by using it in the right way.

— Carol S. Dweck

Think of what a paradise this world would be if men were kind and wise.

— Kurt Vonnegut

Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.

— Aristophanes

Fools rush in, where wise men never go, But wise men never fall in love, so how are they to know?

— Johnny Mercer

Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.

— Alexander Pope

If by leaving a small pleasure one sees a great pleasure, let a wise man leave the small pleasure, and look to…

— Gautama Buddha

It is delightful to transport one's self into the spirit of the past, to see how a wise man has thought before…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Everyone will not get everything, This is the RULE of LIFE, Dont try to get which is not yours. But dont dare…

— Babloo

A prince, the moment he is crown'd, Inherits every virtue sound, As emblems of the sovereign power, Like other baubles in the…

— Jonathan Swift

Saying you don't want to enter every potential war in the Middle East doesn't make you an isolationist; it makes you wise.

— Nigel Farage

A wise man once said that next to losing its mother, there is nothing more healthy for a child than to lose…

— Halldór Laxness

Anyone can find fault. It is the wise person who finds that which encourages another in the turmoils and strifes of the…

— Edgar Cayce

Final cut is overrated. Only fools keep insisting on always having the final word. The wise swallow their pride in order to…

— Wim Wenders

Through neglect, ignorance, or inability, the new intellectual Borgias cram hairballs down our throats and refuse us the convulsion that could make…

— Ray Bradbury

O prejudice, prejudice, prejudice, how many hast thou destroyed! Men who might have been wise have remained fools because they thought they…

— Anonymous

Much has seen said of the wisdom of old age. Old age is wise, I grant, for itself, but not wise for…

— William C. Bryant

The art of governing [focusing] the passions is more useful, and more important, than many things in the search and pursuit of…

— John Jortin

I have always taken the view that sometimes war may be justified, as police action can be justified, to protect the weak…

— N. T. Wright

I hate crowds and making speeches. I hate facing cameras and having to answer to a crossfire of questions. Why popular fancy…

— Albert Einstein

He therefore is the truest friend to the liberty of his country who tries most to promote its virtue, and who, so…

— Samuel Adams

Special care should be taken of the health of the inhabitants, which will depend chiefly on the healthiness of the locality and…

— Aristotle

And then something invisible snapped insider her, and that which had come together commenced to fall apart.

— John Green

I'm a health-food junkie, so all of my food is a splurge, money-wise!

— Zoe Lister-Jones

Think twice before you do something cuz every action has its consequences

— Irving

Controversy equalizes fools and wise men in the same way - and the fools know it.

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr

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

— Michel de Montaigne

In an old time there was a king as wise as a dictionary.

— Anne Sexton

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

— Hank Williams III

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

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

— Lyndon B. Johnson

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

— Senora Roy

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

— Babloo

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

— Anonymous

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

“A wise system of education will at least teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn.”

— John Lubbock

At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.

— William James