Wise Quotes · Page 74

Where does a wise man kick a pebble? On the beach. Where does a wise man hide a leaf? In the forest.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

The fool strikes. The wise man smiles, and watches, and learns. Then strikes.

— Joe Abercrombie

To be gentle, tolerant, wise and reasonable requires a goodly portion of toughness.

— Peter Ustinov

Bets at first were fool-traps, where the wise like spiders lay in ambush for the flies.

— John Dryden

A change of fortune hurts a wise man no more than a change of the moon.

— Benjamin Franklin

“A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study.” - Chinese proverb”

— Alvin Toffler

Wise people are foolish if they cannot adapt to foolish people.

— Michel de Montaigne

Keep it up, wise guy. I'm always going to be taller than you once you're lying unconscious on the ground.

— Jim Butcher

Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to…

— Edward Abbey

High in the heavens I saw the moon this morning, Albeit the sun shone bright; Unto my soul it spoke, in voice…

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

The wise who control their body, who control their tongue, the wise who control their mind, are indeed well controlled.

— Max Muller

The lectures you deliver may be wise and true, But I'd rather get my lessons by observing what you do. I may…

— Edgar Guest

A leaf which falls from d tree is at d mercy of wind, it goes wherever wind takes it.. be d wind…

— Babloo

“There’s an old saying that a wise man is someone who doesn’t grieve for the things which he doesn’t have but is…

— James Bowen

You will need to be as cunning, clever, and ruthless as a con man and a chess master combined to get out…

— Senoraroy

WORDS 4 LIFE TIME… Try to make atleast two persons happy in a day… But Make sure that one of them is…

— Babloo

My heart was filled with gratitude, with thankfulness, and went out in love to all the heroes, the thinkers who gave their…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

I will be glad to discuss this proposition with my attorney, and that after I talk with one, we could either discuss…

— Lee Harvey Oswald

We are lost, lost,' said Gollum. 'No name, no business, no Precious, nothing. Only empty. Only hungry; yes, we are hungry. A…

— Anonymous

I do honestly and sincerely believe in the necessity or desirability of Hindu-Muslim unity. I am also fully prepared to trust the…

— Lala Lajpat Rai

All the pathos and irony of leaving one's youth behind is thus implicit in every joyous moment of travel: one knows that…

— Paul Fussell

True friends see who we really are, hear our words and the feelings behind them, hold us in the safe harbor of…

— Sue Thoele

heaven is eternal, earth everlasting. they endure this way because they do not live for themselves. in the same way, the wise…

— Laozi

To make a man perfectly happy tell him he works too hard, that he spends too much money, that he is "misunderstood"…

— Helen Rowland

Never let your inferiors do you a favor - it will be extremely costly.

— H. L. Mencken

It is a wise man that does know the contented man is never poor, whilst the discontented man is never rich.

— Frank Herbert

A L L men are ORDINARY men; the EXTRAORDINARY men are those who KNOW it.

— G K Chesterton

Only fools use their mouth to speak. A smart man uses his brain, and a wise man uses his heart.

— Jack Ma

“Sometimes loneliness is just the result of a life full of defenses.”

— Augusto Branco

So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Seek not greater wealth, but simpler pleasure; not higher fortune, but deeper felicity.

— Anonymous

There is no mortal truly wise and restless at once; wisdom is the repose of minds.

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

You could think of mindfulness as wise and affectionate attention.

— Jon Kabat-Zinn

Fear not the anger of the wise to raise; Those best can bear reproof who merit praise.

— Alexander Pope

We always knew that name-recognition wise, that was really my one weakness.

— Erin O'Toole

“Who in the universe halts when the enemy tells them to?”

— Sherwood Smith

Without being legalistic, we should be careful and wise in all decisions we make.

— Craig Groeschel

It takes pride to be anxious – I am not wise enough to know how my life should go.

— Timothy Keller

The more pity, that fools may not speak wisely what wise men do foolishly.

— William Shakespeare

Though we may be learned by another's knowledge, we can never be wise but by our own experience.

— Michel de Montaigne