Water and our necessary food are the only things that wise men must fight for. — Plutarch Copy Share Image
If you are truly wise, then you reflect the universe and you are relational in your approach to things. You are a… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There's a lot of people I've encouraged and helped to get into the House of Commons. Looking at them now, I'm not… — Edward Heath Copy Share Image
I watched the gorilla's eyes again, wise and knowing eyes, and wondered about this business of trying to teach apes language. Our… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Alas! Your dear friend and servant Galileo has been for the last month hopelessly blind; so that this heaven, this earth, this… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
The wise are unaffected either by death or life. These are but faces of the same coin. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Joe Biden says the Wall Street crisis is the result of George W. Bush's tax cuts, which makes as much sense as… — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
Putin got lucky with the Sochi Olympics - it didn't fail, it was a great spectacle - and then he thought, "Why… — Vladimir Voinovich Copy Share Image
A wise player ought to accept his throws and score them, not bewail his luck. — Sophocles Copy Share Image
Wise men mingle mirth with their cares, as a help either to forget or overcome them; but to resort to intoxication for… — Pierre Charron Copy Share Image
Art is always the index of social vitality, the moving finger that records the destiny of a civilization. A wise statesman should… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
Some princes, so as to hold securely the state, have disarmed their subjects, others have kept their subject towns distracted by factions...Our… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
If you have it, it is for life. It is a disease for which there is no cure. You will go on… — Monica Dickens Copy Share Image
Passion and wisdom are a powerful weapons that can make you accomplish your goal. Seek out your passions and be wise enough… — Anil Sinha Copy Share Image
No Senses stronger than his brain can bear. Why has not Man a microscopic eye? For this plain reason, Man is not… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
When one tries to increase his knowledge by doing mental gymnastics over books without waiting upon God and looking to the guidance… — Watchman Nee Copy Share Image
Remember that other people may be totally wrong. But they don't think so. Don't condemn them. Any fool can do that. Try… — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
It is a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals. — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
Convulsions in nature, disorders, prodigies, miracles, though the most opposite of the plan of a wise superintendent, impress mankind with the strongest… — David Hume Copy Share Image
It is from books that wise men derive consolation in the troubles of life. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The wise screen writer is he who wears his second-best suit, artistically speaking, and doesn't take things too much to heart. He… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
Whoever is wise is apt to suspect and be diffident of himself, and upon that account is willing to "hearken unto counsel";… — John Balguy Copy Share Image
The ego is entranced by ... names and ideas... However names and concepts only block your perception of this Great Oneness. Therefore… — Laozi Copy Share Image
The earliest instinct of the child, and the ripest experience of age, unite in affirming simplicity to be the truest and profoundest… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Each of us has that right, that possibility, to invent ourselves daily. If a person does not invent herself, she will be… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The natural way of ensuring that the past continues to live in the present and to inform the future is to write… — Ian Jack Copy Share Image
Happy is that mother whose ability to help her children continues on from babyhood and manhood into maturity. Blessed is the son… — Lydia Hoyt Farmer Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of love: we love wise and kind and beautiful people because we need them, but we love (or… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
... The wise in all ages... have tried to learn one thing only, and that was resignation to the Will of God.… — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
If we judge others, it is because we are judging something in ourselves of which we are unaware. — John A. Sanford Copy Share Image
I wasn't happy with how I left England. I didn't like where my mind was football wise. I felt like football was… — Bradley Wright-Phillips Copy Share Image
Wise people build their lives around what is eternal and squeeze in what is temporary. Not the other way around. — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
Wise is the man who says what needs to be said, but not all that could be said. — Marvin J. Ashton Copy Share Image
The wisdom of the masses is not always wise. You could put a lot of things to a vote-you could have put… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
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