Wise Quotes

4345 Wise quotes by 2060 unique authors

We are not meant to stay wounded. We are supposed to move through our tragedies and challenges and to help each other move through the… — Caroline Myss
The wise are balanced, and the foolish are extreme. — Sakyong Mipham
It makes me mad when I go to all the trouble of having Martha cook up about a hundred drumsticks, the the guy at the… — Jack Handey
The wise man will want to be ever with him who is better than himself. — Plato
He who hesitates is sometimes wise. — Malcolm Forbes
It is sometimes wise to forget who we are. — Publilius Syrus
Wise leaders understand that the single greatest determinant of whether followers will ever own a vision deeply is the extent to which whose followers believe… — Bill Hybels
There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
For, contrary to the common opinion, it is the wealthy who are greedy of wealth; while the populace are to be gained by talking to… — Arthur Machen
This life of yours which you are living is not merely a piece of this entire existence, but in a certain sense the whole; only… — Erwin Schrodinger
I believe that President Clinton considered the legal merits of the arguments for the pardon as he understood them, and he rendered his judgment, wise… — John Podesta
No Man is wise at all Times, or is without his blind Side. — Desiderius Erasmus
The true task of spiritual life is not found in faraway places or unusual states of consciousness. It is here in the present. It asks… — Jack Canfield
Education does not necessarily make one wise? — Benjamin Carson
But I hope that by the decision and authority of wise princes that sometime devout and learned men from the churches of other nations and… — Philipp Melanchthon
Wise is what you want to be. Smart is easy compared to wise. — Jerry Seinfeld
I've always used the technique of the cuento. I am an oral storyteller, but now I do it on the printed page. I think if… — Rudolfo Anaya
A wise Providence consoles our present afflictions by joys borrowed from the future. — Hosea Ballou
Wise anger is like fire from a flint: there is great ado to get it out; and when it does come, it is out again… — Edward Everett Hale
I don't have the best family history heart-wise, so I really try to keep my heart strong. — Kelly Ripa
Wonder is retained by wise pondering. — Ravi Zacharias
Smart men walked on the moon, daring men walked on the ocean floor, but wise men walk with God. — Leonard Ravenhill
RHETORIC The art of making life less believable; the calculated use of language, not to alarm but to do full harm to our busy minds… — Ben Marcus
In honesty you have to admit to a wise man that prayer is not for the wise, not for the prudent, not for the sophisticated.… — Frederick Buechner
It is not the reading of many books which is necessary to make a man wise or good; but well reading of a few. — Richard Baxter

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