Wise Quotes · Page 107

The difference between a boy and a man is a wise choice.

— Carol Coopersmith

Nothing drives your adversaries more insane than seeing a fresh smile on your face.

— Senoraroy

I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born.

— Henry David Thoreau

No Man is wise at all Times, or is without his blind Side.

— Desiderius Erasmus

The ignorant man doesn't praise the wise as the owl doesn't praise the light.

— Vikrant Parsai

Although the masters make the rules for the wise men and the fools, I've got nothing, Ma, to live up to.

— Bob Dylan

It is wise for us to forget our troubles, there are always new ones to replace them.

— Brigham Young

Love will fly if held too lightly Love will die if held too tightly . . .

— Oscar Wilde

Gout, unlike any other disease, kills more rich men than poor, more wise men than simple. Great kings, emperors, generals, admirals and…

— Thomas Sydenham

Be wise as thou art cruel, do not press My tongue-tied patience with too much disdain: Lest sorrow lend me words and…

— William Shakespeare

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be…

— James Russell Lowell

“A wise mother knows: It is her state of consciousness that matters. Her gentleness and clarity command respect. Her love creates security.”

— Vimala McClure

“To become wise is to become a disciplined person, given not to impulsiveness but to self-examination, to circumspection, and to clear thinking.”

— Timothy J. Keller

Oh, Vanity of vanities! How wayward the decrees of Fate are; How very weak the very wise, How very small the very…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

I have heard men talk about the blessings of freedom," he said to himself, "but I wish any wise man would teach…

— Walter Scott

He thought her beautiful, believed her impeccably wise; dreamed of her, wrote poems to her, which, ignoring the subject, she corrected in…

— Virginia Woolf

I not only could not stifle controversy among your readers.. I welcome it. This Administration intends to be candid about its errors;…

— John F. Kennedy

If men were wise they would see that the affection that God has implanted in us is amply sufficient, when not weakened…

— Herbert Spencer

I wish it (Christianity) were more productive of good works ... I mean real good works ... not holy day keeping, sermon-hearing…

— Benjamin Franklin

the only way in which a human being can make some approach to knowing the whole of a subject, is by hearing…

— John Stuart Mill

Always do I recall the parting words uttered by my old governor: "My boy, never . . ." I won't set 'em…

— Robert Baden-Powell

“Youth is lies. Youth is evil. Those who incessantly celebrate their teenage years are lying both to themselves and to those around…

— Wataru Watari

This Sabbath day has been designated as a day of thanksgiving, a day of gratitude-even a day of prayer. We pause, we…

— Thomas S. Monson

I am sorry they began their deliberations by so abominable a precedent as that of tying up the tongues of their members.…

— Thomas Jefferson

The right to life is the first human right. Abortion is killing someone that cannot defend himself.

— Pope Francis

There is no greater success as when you turn your enemy into your ally.

— Anonymous

Knowledgeable people are found everywhere, but we are cruelly short of wise people.

— Michel Quoist

“One day, you will see that the heart is not always as wise as it is strong.”

— Ally Carter

Wise people prefer to benefit from constructive criticism rather than be ruined by false praise

— Shiv Khera

You're so wise. You're like a miniature Buddha, covered with hair. - Ron Burgundy

— Anchorman

Education makes the wise slightly wiser, but it makes the fool vastly more dangerous.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.

— Aristotle

The two big advantages I had at birth were to have been born wise and to have been born in poverty.

— Sophia Loren

Wise and purposeful letting alone is the best part of education.

— Charlotte Mason

If you wish a wise answer, you must put a rational question.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Don't blow your tomorrows, don't throw away your love. You've got to be wise as a serpent, harmless as a dove.

— Gerry Rafferty

At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time.

— Ovid

We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

What is it to be wise? 'Tis but to know how little can be known, To see all others' faults, and feel…

— Alexander Pope

A wise politician will never grudge a genuflexion or a rapture if it is expected of him by prevalent opinion.

— Frederick Scott Oliver