Life Quote by Richard Wagner

“Don’t do it, Eleanor told the little girl; insist on your cup of stars; once they have trapped you into being like everyone else…

— Shirley Jackson

Even a fool is thought wise if he keeps silent, and discerning if he holds his tongue

— Bible

“The ignorant eschew phenomena but not thought; the wise eschew thought but not phenomena.”

— Huang Po

“What fools we were, who thought ourselves so wise!”

— George R.R. Martin

“I thought how wise he was to lure his rival out into the woods, where every fight's fair.”

— Peter Geye

Satire, whilst envy and ill-humor sway The mind of man, must always make her way; Nor to a bosom, with discretion fraught, Is all…

— Charles Churchill

It's funny: 'Next Thing' was written in a time of my life when I was actually really naive and thought that I was wise.

— Frankie Cosmos

If my head holds one thought wise and clear, it's You. Poor as I am, what I hold dear is You. No matter how…

— Rumi

“Oh,” he said. “I see.” But he did not see, exactly, though he believed that he could have been wrong and that she was…

— William Faulkner

“And though history sadly doesn't credit the man who first thought of tilting a bicycle's steering axis, it is more likely to be because…

— Robert Penn

The intellectual, the man of thought, doubt and analysis, should give the best of himself.

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

Idolatry is in a man's own thought, not in the opinion of another.

— John Selden