Wise Quotes · Page 86

When I first went to Vegas, there were just high-rollers and gamblers and the wise guys treated you great.

— Don Rickles

Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.

— Diogenes

The Foole doth thinke he is wise, but the wiseman knowes himselfe to be a Foole.

— William Shakespeare

It is the briefest yet wisest maxim which tells us to meddle not.

— Charles Caleb Colton

Fools and wise men are equally harmless. It is the half-fools and half-wise that are dangerous.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“To have the wisdom is rarely achieved by seeking the knowledge.”

— Will Advise

Cabbage: a familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head.

— Ambrose Bierce

A wise prince must never take things easy in times of peace.

— Baltasar Gracian

Remember you are a different person now than before, you are wiser and stronger from the trials that you have been through.

— Anonymous

Some tools of thought are so blunt that they are almost useless; others are so sharp that they are dangerous. But the…

— Gregory Bateson

A wise man looks upon men as he does on horses; all their caparisons of title, wealth, and place, he considers but…

— Richard Cecil

Pain makes you stronger, fear makes you brave, mistakes and failure if taken in positive frame of mind, makes you wiser.

— Anil Sinha

I will say this: I know no wise person who doesn't read a lot. I suspect that you can read on the…

— Charlie Munger

The wise man will be as happy as circumstances permit, and if he finds the contemplation of the universe painful beyond a…

— Bertrand Russell

Seeing depends on knowledge / And knowledge, of course, on your college / But when you are erudite and wise / What…

— Ernst Gombrich

“Despite this, his prejudice against helmets remained unchanged. You had your pride, Ganelon had told him once, or you had nothing.”

— Nicholas Eames

We forgive, if we are wise, not for the other person, but for ourselves. We forgive, not to erase a wrong, but…

— Tian Dayton

Curs'd be that wretch (Death's factor sure) who brought Dire swords into the peaceful world, and taught Smiths (who before could only…

— Abraham Cowley

Everything that’s out now…rap wise and music wise in general [is whack]. I mean, you know whack when you see it. So…

— Jeru the Damaja

God has bestowed upon you intelligence and knowledge. Do not extinguish the lamp of Divine Grace and do not let the candle…

— Khalil Gibran

“The soul is no traveller; the wise man stays at home, and when his necessities, his duties, on any occasion call him…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ageing destroys youth, sickness destroys health, degeneration of life destroys all excellent qualities and death destroys life. Even if you are a…

— Dalai Lama

For ages this idea has been proclaimed in the consummately wise teachings of religion, probably not alone as a means of insuring…

— Nikola Tesla

That two bodies press convulsively together, man and woman, he fertilizing her, he giving her a budding life, or he planting a…

— Gustav Vigeland

U can never be old and wise if you where never Young and crazy:)

— Jade Williams

You are wise... when you know the limits of your wisdom.

— Nikhil Saluja

“We are wise women," Abuela liked to say. "Not because we are wise, but because we seek wisdom.”

— Charles de Lint

Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery.

— Anonymous

“I was wise enough never to grow up, while fooling people into believing I had.”

— Margaret Mead

“Knowledge is knowing the rules; wisdom is knowing when to break them.”

— Anamikos

Always remember that problems contain values that have improvement potential.

— Norman Vincent Peale

Silence becomes cowardice when occasion demands speaking out the whole truth and acting accordingly.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Like attracts like. Whatever the conscious mind thinks and believes. the subconscious identically creates.

— Bryan Adams

A wise person looks at the end results instead of focusing only on his or her immediate circumstances.

— Craig Williams

Within us is the soul of the whole, the wise silence, the universal beauty, the eternal One.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough.

— Anonymous

Any fool can paint a picture, but it takes a wise man to be able to sell it.

— Samuel Butler

I'd love to ask how old you are, but unfortunately I know you can't count that high.

— Russell Lynes

Search well and be wise, nor believe that self-willed pride will ever be better than good counsel.

— Aeschylus

“He who lives without folly is not as wise as he may think.”

— La Rochefoucauld