Wise Quotes · Page 85

Friendship with the wise gets better with time, as a good book gets better with age.

— Thiruvalluvar

A girl knows her limits, but a wise girl knows she has none.

— Marilyn Monroe

It is wise to direct your anger towards problems - not people; to focus your energies on answers - not excuses.

— William Arthur Ward

A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.

— Stendhal

John Green is a very handsome, intelligent, and wise man. He smells really weird though.

— Hank Green

Seek your own Reality, That is what a wise man should do.

— Sathya Sai Baba

If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.

— William Butler Yeats

I wish I was beautiful or at least wise, but I’m simply mad and violent.

— Courtney Love

They say philosophers and wise men are indifferent. Wrong. Indifference is a paralysis of the soul, a premature death.

— Anton Chekhov

The first Degree of Folly, is to conceit one's self wise; the second to profess it; the third to despise Counsel.

— Benjamin Franklin

Diamond cannot be polished without friction, gold cannot be purified without fire. good people go through trials but don't suffer, with that…

— Anonymous

People always fancy that we must become old to become wise; but, in truth, as years advance, it is hard to keep…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

An Airoplane Is Always Safe At Ground. But It's Not Made For That. So Always Take Some Meaningful Risks In Life To…

— Babloo

Happiness is the secret of beauty. But who knows the secret of happiness? The wise woman keeps her cosmetics at hand.

— Coco Chanel

There is one safeguard known generally to the wise, which is an advantage and security to all, but especially to democracies as…

— Demosthenes

Five minutes of today are worth as much to me, as five minutes in the next millennium. Let us be poised, and…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is a revolutionary experience. That's the best way I can describe it. It transforms you completely, in a second. Nature is…

— Penelope Cruz

It had that comfortably sprung, lived-in look that library books with a lively circulation always get; bent page corners, a dab of…

— Stephen King

Can an author with reason complain that he is cramped and shackled if he is not at liberty to publish blasphemy, bawdry,…

— Anonymous

Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986, Elie Wiesel is also the author of more than 40 books. As relevant as anything…

— Hershel Shanks

I intend to give my eighty-two-year-old dad a copy of God Never Blinks. I will also buy one for a sixteen-year-old friend.…

— Thrity Umrigar

I was the executer of our mother's trust. She asked me to hold onto the house for 10 years and then sell…

— Kyle Richards

O world, thou choosest not the better part! It is not wisdom to be only wise, And on the inward vision close…

— George Santayana

Wise people are able to give themselves gracefully to seemingly contradictory experiences, because they know that they belong to different seasons of…

— Sam Keen

“He was always clever, even as a boy, but it is one thing to be clever and another to be wise.”

— George R.R. Martin

For surely to be wise is the most desirable thing in all the world.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Wise are those who learn that the bottom line doesn't always have to be their top priority.

— William Arthur Ward

Numberless arts appear foolish whose secret motives are most wise and weighty.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Of all knowledge the wise and good seek most to know themselves.

— William Shakespeare

Truth is love's mother, and we all know it is not wise to lie to anyone's mother.

— Iyanla Vanzant

“Sometimes fate just plays a strange game of Scrabble with you.”

— Pawan Mishra

If all men saw the fair and wise the same men would not have debaters' double strife.

— Euripides

All mistakes have purposes and all purposes will have mistakes

— Enrique Alcala

“If you are wise, you will never pity the past for what it did not know, but pity yourself for what it…

— John Fowles

Wise men talk because they have something to say. Fools talk because they have to say something.

— Plato

While craving justice for ourselves, it is never wise to be unjust to others.

— Lew Wallace

Maybe one day we shall be glad to remember even these hardships.

— Virgil

A wise man can play the part of a clown, but a clown can't play the part of a wise man.

— Malcolm X

“Wise man doesn't need to be praised like one. It can reduce the guts of him to be a better man.”

— Toba Beta

I call wise man who, while he is innocent , endures insults and blows with a patience equal to its strength.

— Gautama Buddha