Wise Quotes - Page 103

We must have passed through life unobservantly, if we have never perceived that a man is very much himself what he thinks of others.

Wise and prudent men and intelligent conservatives have long known that in a changing world worthy institutions can be conserved only by adjusting them to the changing time.

The future lies with those wise political leaders who realize that the great public is interested more in Government than in politics. The growing independence of voters, after all, has been proven by the votes in every Presidential election since my childhood and the tendency, frankly, is on the increase.

How do you know antiquity was foolish? How do you know the present is wise? Who made it foolish? Who made it wise?

Numberless arts appear foolish whose secret motives are most wise and weighty.

It is easy to be wise on behalf of others than to be so for ourselves.

If thou seest anything in thyself which may make thee proud, look a little further and thou shalt find enough to humble thee; if thou be wise, view the peacock's feathers with his feet, and weigh thy best parts with thy imperfections.

In all superstition wise men follow fools.

Georgian film is a completely unique phenomenon, vivid, philosophically inspiring, very wise, childlike. There is everything that can make me cry and I ought to say that it (my crying) is not an easy thing.

Advertising is what you do when you can't go see somebody. That's all it is.

The disadvantage of becoming wise is that you realize how foolish you've been.

In my opinion, the unjust man whose tongue is full of glozing rhetoric, merits the heaviest punishment; vaunting that he can with his tongue gloze over injustice, he dares to act wickedly, yet he is not over-wise.

It is the wise man's part to leave in darkness everything that is ugly.

People should not judge failed love affairs as failed experiences, but as part of the growth process. Something does not have to end well for it to have been one of the most valuable experiences of a lifetime.

Of all the gifts that wise Providence grants us to make life full and happy, friendship is the most beautiful.

In Paris, everything's for sale: wise virgins, foolish virgins, truth and lies, tears and smiles.

The poet is like the wise fool or like a version of the stand-up, because we're standing, we're doing stand-up. That's exactly what we're doing.

Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.

No man is wise enough to be another man's master. Each man's as good as the next -- if not a damn sight better.

The wise determine from the gravity of the case; the irritable, from sensibility to oppression; the high minded, from disdain and indignation at abusive power in unworthy hands.

Nothing would more contribute to make a man wise than to have always an enemy in his view.

Though wise men at their end know dark is right, Because their words had forked no lightning they Do not go gentle into that good night.

In the wise words of Mahatma Gandhi: have a sense of humor.

You must accept responsibility for your actions, but not the credit for your achievements.

I discuss with myself questions of politics, love, taste, or philosophy. I let my mind rove wantonly, give it free rein to followany idea, wise or mad that may present itself. My ideas are my harlots.