Wise Quotes · Page 101

Being the strongest means never letting anybody stronger get in your way.

— Michael Malara

Even a fool is thought wise if he keeps silent, and discerning if he holds his tongue

— Bible

Anger may glance into the breast of a wise man, but rests only in the bosom of fools.

— David C. Stark

When proven wrong, the wise man will correct himself and the ignorant will keep arguing.

— Ali ibn Abi Talib

The first step towards madness is to think oneself wise.

— Fernando de Rojas

“I know I am wise. [But] I’m not the beginning and end of wisdom.”

— Dr. Noerine Kaleeba

This is not the time for wise words but it is the time for wise actions

— Bokamoso Bruce Tlhwaele

Our defense is not in our armaments, nor in science, nor in going underground. Our defense is in law and order.

— Albert Einstein

A wise man distrusts his neighbor. A wiser man distrusts both his neighbor and himself. The wisest man of all distrusts his…

— Taylor Caldwell

Where have all the good men gone, and where are all the gods? Where's the street-wise Hercules, to fight the rising odds?

— Bonnie Tyler

Wounds are the means through which we enter the hearts of other people. They are meant to teach us to become compassionate…

— Caroline Myss

The most intelligent people disguise the fact that they are intelligent. Wise men do not wear name tags. The more people talk…

— Tsugumi Ohba

It is not wise, or even possible, to divorce private behavior from public leadership… By its very nature, true leadership carries with…

— Gordon B. Hinckley

It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting.…

— F. H. Bradley

The true teacher of love is the heart. The heart is very, very wise. It makes mistakes from time to time, but…

— Frederick Lenz

The wise man then followed a simple way of life-which is hardly surprising when you consider how even in this modern age…

— Seneca the Younger

I see everything visually. It's very visual for me. And so I think, from a plotting standpoint or what have you, there's…

— Michael Landon, Jr

With regard to electric vehicles, I am all for them because most of the incremental electricity needed to run those vehicles will…

— Aubrey McClendon

This, for instance, is what Egon Bahr said on June 26, 1990: "If we do not now undertake clear steps to prevent…

— Vladimir Putin

There are so many kinds of madness, so many ways in which the human brain may go wrong; and so often it…

— James Oliver Curwood

Weep not for me. Rather let your tears flow for the sorrows of the multitude. My work is done. Like a ripe…

— Lucretia Mott

Money is the root of all evil.' Then we hear, 'A fool and his money are soon parted.' What are they talking…

— George Burns

God is not good, or wise, or intelligent anyway that we know. So, people like Maimonides in the Jewish tradition, Eboncina in…

— Karen Armstrong

After I had my son I looked everywhere for a book that might serve as some kind of mirror. I bought so…

— Miranda July

The government that is wise will consider what is best for all its people.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

“Wise words are wise no matter whose mouth they came from.”

— Kristina M. Sanchez

“A dog to vomit does turn, A fool to folly but return, The wise err and learn, Gaining from each burn.”

— Munindra Misra

The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.

— William Wordsworth

Sometimes, in order to go forward, You must first go back.

— Julia Cameron

The French are wiser than they seem, and the Spaniards seem wiser than they are.

— Francis Bacon

To the wise man, to the wise nation, the mistakes of the past are the torches of the present.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Push YOURSELF to the edge of YOUR limits. That's how they expand

— Robin Sharma

It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to.

— Fannie Hurst

If you don't have a vision for the future, then your future is threatened to be a repeat of the past.

— A. R. Bernard

He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.

— Voltaire

Tis well to borrow from the good and the great; 'Tis wise to learn: 'tis God-like to create!

— John Godfrey Saxe

There is nobility in the struggle, you don't have to win.

— Sharon Pollock

We are not joining the coalition of the idiots. We are joining the coalition of the wise.

— Carolyn Parrish

“A practical rule: a man which is wise in one area may be silly in others.”

— Albert Camus

Crowds of minds can be wise, but crowds of bodies just aren't.

— John Seabrook