Wise Quotes

4345 Wise quotes by 2060 unique authors

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. — Unknown Author
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. — Unknown Author
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
The day is always his, who works in it with serenity and great aims. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature contains the elements, in colour and form, of all pictures, as the keyboard contains the notes of all music. But the artists is born… — James Whistler
Dig within. There lies the wellspring of good. — Marcus Aurelius
A word spoken in loving kindness is worth far more than any gift. — Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet
Literature is the voice of the human heart. — Graham Swift
If people have a passion for anything they tend to get quite good at it. — Brian Johnson
Libraries have always been humanities' way of preserving its collective wisdom — Umberto Eco
Solvitur ambulando . . . it is solved by walking. — Saint Augustine
For you can look at things while talking or with a radio going full blast, but you can see only when the chatter stops. — Frederick Franck
Your voice takes you to your heart. — Gabrielle Roth

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