Wise Quotes

4345 quotes by 2190 authors

To a Mistress Dying Lover. YOUR beauty, ripe and calm and fresh As eastern summers are, Must now, forsaking time and flesh, Add light to… — William Davenant
Wise man also fears a weak enemy. — Publilius Syrus
Whom do I call educated? First, those who manage well the circumstances they encounter day by day. Next, those who are decent and honorable in… — Socrates
If there is one thing the psychic taught me, it's that people and events are rarely who and what we think they are. They are… — Leslie Morgan Steiner
Let the wise guard their thoughts, which are difficult to perceive, extremely subtle, and wander at will. Thought which is well guarded is the bearer… — Gautama Buddha
Let them not do the slightest thing that the wise would later reprove. — Gautama Buddha
The wise have mastered body, word, and mind. They are the true masters. — Gautama Buddha
Philip Martin has written a wise, compassionate, and nurturing guide through the self-oppression of depression. — Harold H. Bloomfield
The wise man understands his weakness and seeks to find a lesson from it. The fool lets it control and destroy him. — Christie Golden
It takes pride to be anxious â€“ I am not wise enough to know how my life should go. — Timothy Keller
Evan Handler is not only a fine actor, heâ€™s a damn good writer. Itâ€™s Only Temporary is wise and funny and as righteously indignant as… — Meghan Daum
Who was to know what went on in a person's heart? A wise woman kept her own counsel. — Donna Woolfolk Cross
That man is best who sees the truth himself. Good too is he who listens to wise counsel. But who is neither wise himself nor… — Hesiod
Of themselves diseases come upon men continually by day and by night, bringing mischief to mortals silently; for wise Zeus took away speech from them.… — Hesiod
Since all of us desire to be happy, and since we evidently become so on account of our useâ€”that is our good useâ€”of other things,… — Socrates
The wise man makes an island of himself that no flood can overwhelm. — Gautama Buddha
Though one should live a hundred years without wisdom and control, yet better, indeed, is a single day's life of one who is wise and… — Gautama Buddha
Think not ambition wise, because 't is brave. — William Davenant
Follow then the shining ones, the wise, the awakened, the loving, for they know how to work and forbear. — Gautama Buddha
Kindness can turn the bad man's heart, and fools convert to wise, Make poison into nectar-juice, and friends of enemies. — Bhartrhari

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