A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Try taking others in their own terms and trying to understand them, this will make your life easy. — Senoraroy Copy Share Image
Life is all about choices, choose wisely or live the rest of your life in regret.. — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
“You think it's all obvious and straightforward, this world. But really, it's all in who is doing the looking.” — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
Give a man food, and he can eat for a day. Give a man a job, and he can only eat for… — Lev L. Spiro Copy Share Image
Never we sleep, a thug doesn't rest, Cause a wise man said: it was a cousin of death. — Big Pun Copy Share Image
There is no happiness where there is no wisdom; No wisdom but in submission to the gods. Big words are always punished,… — Sophocles Copy Share Image
Certainly I have no faith in Jehovah, although I think it quite likely that Jesus Christ, as a preacher and a wise… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
For the most part we stupidly confound one man with another. The dull distinguish only races or nations, or at most classes,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Compassionate the mountains rise Dim with the wistful dimness of old eyes That, having looked on life time out of mind, Know… — DuBose Heyward Copy Share Image
He is one of those wise philanthropists who, in a time of famine, would vote for nothing but a supply of toothpicks. — Douglas William Jerrold Copy Share Image
Certainly a wilderness area, a little portion of our planet left alone…will furnish us with a number of very important uses…If we… — Olaus Murie 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
A smart man makes a mistake, learns from it, and never makes that mistake again.But a wise man finds a smart man… — Roy H. Williams Copy Share Image
Listening is such a simple act. It requires us to be present, and that takes practice, but we don't have to do… — Margaret J. Wheatley Copy Share Image
Still others commit all sorts of evil deeds, claiming karma doesnt exist. They erroneously maintain that since everything is empty, committing evil… — Bodhidharma Copy Share Image
One of the reasons I always looked up to [George] Carlin is he looked like your grandfather but, acted like your best… — Kevin Smith Copy Share Image
We find nothing easier than being wise, patient, superior. We drip with the oil of forbearance and sympathy, we are absurdly just,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It will often be a question when a man is or is not wise in advancing unpalatable opinions, or in preaching heresies;… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
I hold that we have a very imperfect knowledge of the works of nature till we view them as works of God,—… — James McCosh Copy Share Image
Do you think of yourself as a creative personality? If you do, you are both fortunate and correct, in fact the beautiful… — Bob Proctor 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 earth is wise. It has given itself into the keeping of all, and all are therefore accountable. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Dont waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear. — Troublemaker Copy Share Image
If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand. — Confucius Copy Share Image
...a carefree letting go of oneself, not a caution, but a wise blindness. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Though lust do masque in ne'er so strange disguise she's oft found witty, but is never wise. — John Webster Copy Share Image
He who provides for this life, but takes no care for eternity, is wise for a moment, but a fool forever. — John Tillotson Copy Share Image
The truly generous is the truly wise, and he who loves not others lives unblest! — Anonymous Copy Share Image
He is a fool who cannot be angry; but he is a wise man who will not — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Joy comes not through possession or ownership but through a wise and loving heart. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
“We know way too many words of wisdom, but perform all too few actions of wisdom.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Rich men are to bear the infirmities of the poor, and wise are to bear the mistakes of the ignorant. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Since you have to do the things you have to do, be wise enough to do some of the things you want… — Malcolm Forbes Copy Share Image
Always when judging Who people are, Remember to footnote The words "So far. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
He who is virtuous is wise; and he who is wise is good; and he who is good is happy. — Boethius Copy Share Image