Wise Quotes

4345 quotes by 2161 authors

Madame Nature allows no dangerous classes, in the modern sense. She has, doubtless for some wise reason, no mercy for the weak. She rewards each… — Charles Kingsley
Whereas young people become accomplished in geometry and mathematics, and wise within these limits, prudent young people do not seem to be found. The reason… — Aristotle
A wise prince will seek means by which his subjects will always and in every possible condition of things have need of his government, and… — Niccolo Machiavelli
The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love. — Theodor Reik
The wise man can pick up a grain of sand and envision a whole universe. But the stupid man will just lay down on some… — Jack Handey
Wise men still seek Him today. — Daniel Bell
The wise find pleasure in water; the virtuous find pleasure in hills. The wise are active; the virtuous are tranquil. The wise are joyful; the… — Confucius
Being in humaneness is good. If we select other goodness and thus are far apart from humaneness, how can we be the wise? — Confucius
Know well what holds you back, and what moves you forward — Gautama Buddha
Almost anything that you pay close, direct attention to becomes interesting. — David Foster Wallace
The first proof of a well-ordered mind is to be able to pause and linger within itself. — Seneca the Younger
I write not to record what I think but to discover what I think — David Malouf
Wonder - the sensation of being whisked out of time and space...to be bathed in ... epiphanous delight. — Robert Dessaix
A book is like a single tree in a forest, in that it exists in conjunction with and because of a great many others around… — David Suzuki
Novels are . . . an unsurpassed form to understand people. — Henning Mankell
A Writer says: read what I have written An historian says: listen to my lecture A critic says: listen to what I think A journalist… — Gideon Haigh
The natural way of ensuring that the past continues to live in the present and to inform the future is to write it down. — Ian Jack
Love will fly if held too lightly Love will die if held too tightly . . . — Oscar Wilde
We do not read to pass the time, but to inhabit time. — Andrew O'Hagan
The unstable estimates of men crowd to him whose mind is filled with a truth, as the heaped waves of the Atlantic follow the moon. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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