Wise Quotes - Page 75

Everyone has equal wisdom. It is absolutely equally distributed. No one is wiser than anyone else.

There is nothing that isn't true if you believe it; and nothing is true, believe it or not.

Curiosity is one of the great secrets of happiness.

Kindness can turn the bad man's heart, and fools convert to wise, Make poison into nectar-juice, and friends of enemies.

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.

The wise are always impatient, for he that increases knowledge increases impatience of folly.

The wise persono would rather see others needing him than thanking him.

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 them about liberty, their unknown god. And so much are they enchanted by the words liberty, freedom, and such like, that the wise can go to the poor, rob them of what little they have, dismiss them with a hearty kick, and win their hearts and their votes for ever, if only they will assure them that the treatment which they have received is called liberty.

Refined, intense, wise, stiring, immediate, subtile, all the charmed qualities gather in Dropping the Bow. These translations are precious jewels. Like the erotic moods they investigate, these versions shimmer and startle with a palpable desire to be heard, and a mystical sense of impermanence. This is a transmission of a vital, extraordinary tradition.

One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.

To swear is neither brave, polite, nor wise.

One becomes wise only in measures, as he goes through his own insanity.

You want to run out in front, prepare to be tripped from behind.

It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.

The Bible is proved to be a revelation from God, by the reasonableness and holiness of its precepts; all its commands, exhortations, and promises having the most direct tendency to make men wise, holy, and happy in themselves, and useful to one another.

You need a plan to build a house. To build a life, it is even more important to have a plan or goal.

A person is both wise and wealthy when you master the art of appreciating what you already have.

Oh, Vanity of vanities! How wayward the decrees of Fate are; How very weak the very wise, How very small the very great are!

I really believe my greatest service is in the many unwise steps I prevent.

As the art of reading (after a certain stage in one's education) isthe art of skipping, so the art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

Living is one constant and perpetual instant when the arras-veil before what-is-to-be hangs docile and even glad to the lightest naked thrust if we had dared, were brave enough (not wise enough: no wisdom needed here) to make the rending gash.

War's a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.

We’re neither pure, nor wise, nor good; we do the best we know.

A wise person is like a smoothly polished rock: it takes time to become either.

Libraries have always been humanities' way of preserving its collective wisdom