Wise Quotes · Page 88

I like to be challenged acting wise and I like to do things that I'm scared of.

— Jason Segel

States would be wise to weaken sovereignty in order to protect themselves.

— Richard N. Haass

One is wise to cultivate the tree that bears fruit in our soul.

— Henry David Thoreau

You should always be aware that your head creates your world.

— Ken Keyes Jr

The wise man will want to be ever with him who is better than himself.

— Plato

Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment is the treasurer of the one who is wise.

— William Penn

The wise man makes an island of himself that no flood can overwhelm.

— Gautama Buddha

Extraordinary: it is the extra that make us more than ordinary.

— Anonymous

We lean on Faith; and some less wise have cried, "Behold the butterfly, the see that's cast!" Vain hopes that fall like…

— Richard Watson Gilder

Wisdom and love have nothing to do with each other. Wisdom is staying alive, survival. You're wise if you don't stick your…

— Robert Altman

The wise hand doth not all that the foolish mouth speakes. [The wise hand doth not all that the foolish mouth speaks.]

— George Herbert

Do not go for looks, it can deceive; do not go for wealth even that fades away. Go for someone who makes…

— Anonymous

My mom didn't write, but she loved to read. She liked books 'that made you a little nervous.' Stephen King, Dean Koontz…

— Michael Easton

Nothing is more unworthy of a wise man, or ought to trouble him more, than to have allowed more time for trifling,…

— Plato

To admonish your brother in private is to advise him and improve him. But to admonish him publicly is to disgrace and…

— Al-Shafi‘i

I went to a public high school that had a very small graduating class of 156 students. I lived a relatively normal…

— Jesse McCartney

There is a wise old saying 'Eat it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without'. Thrift is a practice…

— James E. Faust

Perfection in wisdom, as well as in integrity, is neither required nor expected in these agents (public servants). It belongs not to…

— Thomas Jefferson

~Do you like him much? ~I told you I like him a little. Where is the use of caring for him so…

— Charlotte Bronte

We must believe that He permits it [this war] for some wise purpose of his own, mysterious and unknown to us; and…

— Abraham Lincoln

It is the characteristic of great poems that they will yield of their sense in due proportion to the hasty and the…

— Henry David Thoreau

Be someone who genuinely seeks to understand, and you will be wise. Be someone kind, someone considerate, and you will be admired.…

— Ralph Marston

A truly wise person will constantly move forward, striving for self-improvement, knowing that daily repentance is needed for progress. He will realize…

— Marvin J. Ashton

You never really know what the director has got in his mind as far as the scene visually and art direction wise,…

— Guy Pearce

“Let me think Thinking is all I have If wisdom is a pretense Then let me pretend to be wise”

— Walter Dean Myers

A wise judge may let mercy temper justice but may not let mercy undo it.

— Lewis B. Smedes

Time itself is an individual gift. It is wise to cherish it carefully and give it away generously.

— Maya Angelou

The fool thinks he is wise and the wise thinks he is not a fool.

— Vikrant Parsai

Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.

— Confucius

“He’s too clever to be wise, if that makes any sense. Very”

— Herman Wouk

We are all just a little crazy. We all have that internal dialogue going. Well actually not anymore

— Senoraroy

The American people may not be the best-educated, but they're very wise at heart.

— Norman Lear

All knowledge is interesting to a wise man, and the knowledge of nature is interesting to all men.

— Matthew Arnold

Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.

— Cato the Elder

The wise man should be prepared for everything that does not lie within his control.

— Pythagoras

The wise are known by their actions; fame and immortality are ever their attendants.

— Johann Gaudenz von Salis-Seewis

Death is a new office building filled with modern furniture, A wise thing, but which has no purpose for us.

— John Ashbery

No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.

— Ernest Hemingway

stop now before i kill you a word to the wise from your friend PENNYWISE

— Stephen King

May the Almighty grant that the cause of truth, justice, and humanity, shall in no wise suffer at my hands.

— Abraham Lincoln