Wise Quotes

4345 Wise quotes by 2060 unique authors

But wise is the man who disdains no character, but with searching glance explores him to the root and cause of all. — Nikolai Gogol
Y'all smoke to enjoy it. I smoke to die. — John Green
I realize that they giggle and I actually laugh, that they show their cleavage and I have none to show, but just so you know,… — John Green
But Laila has decided that she will not be crippled by resentment. Mariam wouldn’t want it that way. ‘What’s the sense?’ she would say with… — Khaled Hosseini
Is this what you have in mind,' I asked the Dalai Lama, 'when you say in teachings that the buddhas and bodhisattvas of the world… — Dalai Lama
But I believe I rather like superstitious people. They lend color to life. Wouldn't it be a rather drab world if everybody was wise and… — Lucy Maud Montgomery
He told me not to seek revenge, but to seek the Buddha,' said the fox spirit, sadly. 'Wise counsel,' said the fox of dreams. 'Vegeance… — Neil Gaiman
The practice of thrift is not outdated. We must discipline ourselves to live within our incomes even if it means going without or making do.… — Marvin J. Ashton
It is harrowing for me to try to teach 20-year-old students, who earnestly want to improve their writing. The best I can think to tell… — Barbara Kingsolver
To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man. — Aristotle
Therefore, since the world has still Much good, but much less good than ill, And while the sun and moon endure Luck's a chance, but… — A. E. Housman
Abra DeMadrigal didn't look young enough to be my sister anymore. Her sorrow weighed her down and aged her. She was still beautiful, but she… — Alice Hoffman
Even voting for the right is doing nothing for it. It is only expressing to men feebly your desire that it should prevail. A wise… — Henry David Thoreau
Ten thousand fools proclaim themselves into obscurity, while one wise man forgets himself into immortality. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
No Man has a more perfect reliance on the all-wise and powerful dispensations of the Supreme Being than I have, nor thinks his aid more… — George Washington
When I was young and bold and strong, The right was right, the wrong was wrong. With plume on high and flag unfurled, I rode… — Dorothy Parker
Folly consists not in committing Folly, but in being incapable of concealing it. All men make mistakes, but the wise conceal the blunders they have… — Baltasar Gracian
When we pay attention to nature's music, we find that everything on the Earth contributes to its harmony. — Hazrat Inayat Khan
And then something invisible snapped insider her, and that which had come together commenced to fall apart. — John Green
Thus, from admiration of one wise and innocent child, and from a misheard remark, the process that not even Aristotle could codify was triggered. Where… — Harlan Ellison
Cast me into a dungeon;, burn me at the state, crown me king of kings, I can 'pursue happiness' as long as my brain lives… — Robert A. Heinlein
The essential and defining characteristic of childhood is not the effortless merging of dream and reality, but only alienation. There are no words for childhood's… — Stephen King
Money is the root of all evil.' Then we hear, 'A fool and his money are soon parted.' What are they talking about? If money… — George Burns
Mmm....she's doomed! You're doomed!! They're all doomed! Notice I didn't specify what kind of doom, so no matter what happens, I predicted it. How very… — Christopher Paolini
The more pity, that fools may not speak wisely what wise men do foolishly. — William Shakespeare

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