Wise Quotes

4345 Wise quotes by 2060 unique authors

Groups are only smart when there is a balance between the information that everyone in the group shares and the information that each of the… — James Surowiecki
When you come to see you are not as wise today as you thought you were yesterday, you are wiser today. — Anthony de Mello
If you have ever been accused of being rude when you were merely stating the truth, or called a gossip because you like to dwell… — Mark Kingwell
I loved this smart, funny, big-hearted novel. As hilarious and wise as early Philip Roth, The Mathematician's Shiva will delight and move you. — Steven Strogatz
In Tharoor's hands [the story of modern India] is transformed into Mahabharata magic.... Endlessly inventive, irreverent, wise, ingenious,... it takes on at one level or… — M. G. Vassanji
If we think of the Holy Spirit only as an impersonal power or influence, then our thought will constantly be, how can I get hold… — Reuben Archer Torrey
PERENNIAL wisdom from divine revelation and human experience dictates that all earthly things great or small, beautiful or ugly, good or bad, sad or happy,… — Jonathan Moyo
The wise are not learned, the learned are not wise. — Laozi
And just then he realized in a flash that men have only this sad knowledge with which to heal themselves: when you lose life, you… — John Holmes
How little can we foresee the consequences either of wise or unwise action, of virtue or of malice. Without this measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the… — Winston Churchill
Among us, I am happy to say, old age is honorable, and regarded as a blessing from the Lord. It is our duty to desire… — Lorenzo Snow
What I am thinking and doing day by day is resistlessly shaping my future - a future in which there is no expiation except through… — Horatio Dresser
Always do I recall the parting words uttered by my old governor: "My boy, never . . ." I won't set 'em down. I disregarded… — Robert Baden-Powell
A wise word is more rare than the green emerald, and one can find the word of wisdom even amongst the slave girls making grain. — Barbara De Angelis
...our intellectual powers are rather geared to master static relations and that our powers to visualize processes evolving in time are relatively poorly developed. For… — Edsger Dijkstra
For other things mild Heav'n a time ordains, And disapproves that care, though wise in show, That with superfluous burden loads the day, And when… — John Milton
A word to the wise ain't... — Bill Cosby
Priority-wise, it simply makes sense to take care of yourself before you start searching for a higher meaning. You aren't much good to anyone else… — Scott Adams
When it's time to get dressed, put on your clothes. When you must walk, then walk. When you must sit, then sit. Just be your… — Linji Yixuan
The key to all aristeia and wisdom and gnosis is a seed that conformist and mediocritist and democratist Americans haven't got even a scintilla of… — Kenny Smith
My description of wisdom has nothing to do with benevolence and righteousness, it is to do with being wise in one's own virtue, nothing more.… — Zhuangzi
Heaven is in everything: follow the light, hide in the cloudiness and begin in what is. Do this and your understanding will be like not… — Zhuangzi
Miracle workers learn to keep their own counsel. Something that's important to know about spiritual wisdom is that, when spoken at the wrong time, in… — Marianne Williamson
A famously wise old man in a village was once asked how he came by his wisdom. "I got it from my good judgment," he… — Sydney J. Harris
He who seeks wisdom is a wise man; he who thinks he has found it is mad. — Seneca the Younger

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