Wise Quotes

• may i be i is the only prayer--not may i be great or good or beautiful or wise or strong today... may i be me....five foot eleven, brown hair/eyed, smart, serious, happy, frustrated, impatient, joyful, running, sleeping, smiling, eating, trying, believing, listening, being & becoming.

  

  e. e. cummings
  • Good
  • Great
  • Trying

• Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Love
  • Fool
  • For Her

• Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Wise
  • Sad
  • Sorry

• The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • Contradict
  • Bred

• I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in either of them: Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Beautiful
  • Labor
  • Plato

• When a love comes to an end, weaklings cry, efficient ones instantly find another love, and the wise already have one in reserve.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Love
  • For Her
  • For Him

• Think before you speak. Read before you think. This will give you something to think about that you didn't make up yourself - a wise move at any age, but most especially at seventeen, when you are in the greatest danger of coming to annoying conclusions.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Up
  • Age
  • Annoying

• In design as in life, smart can also mean wise, kind, inspiring - and cost-effective. And that has a charm all its own.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Life
  • Design
  • Smart

• How I wish that somewhere there existed an island for those who are wise and of good will.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Island
  • Existed
  • Good Will

• Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Men
  • Deep
  • Moral

• If you don't have a vision for the future, then your future is threatened to be a repeat of the past.

  

  A. R. Bernard
  • Future
  • Success
  • Past

• But till all graces be in one woman, one woman shall not come in my grace. Rich she shall be, that's certain; wise, or I'll none; virtuous, or I'll never cheapen her; fair, or I'll never look on her; mild, or come not near me; noble, or not I for an angel; of good discourse, and excellent musician and her hair shall be of what colour it shall please God.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Perfect
  • Rich
  • Grace

• Rules are for the guidance of wise men and the obedience of fools.

  

  Douglas Bader
  • Men
  • Wise

• A wise man speaks because he has something to say; a fool because he has to say something.

  

  Plato
  • Wise
  • Fool
  • Speaks

• A spoon cannot taste of the food it carries. Likewise, a foolish man cannot understand the wise man´s wisdom even if he associates with a sage.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Food
  • Wisdom
  • Wise

• Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Wise
  • Smile
  • Rich

• As I slowly grow wise I briskly grow cautious.

  

  Mark Twain
  • Wise

• Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.

  

  Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht
  • Wise
  • Poverty
  • Sad

• One of the pitfalls of writing about illness is that it is very easy to imagine people with cancer as either these wise, beyond-their-years creatures or else these sad-eyed, tragic people. And the truth is people living with cancer are very much like people who are not living with cancer.

  

  John Green
  • People
  • Writing
  • Truth

• I pray Heaven to bestow the best of blessings on this house and all that shall hereafter inhabit it. May none but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof.

  

  John Adams
  • Men
  • May
  • House

• Even a fool is wise after an event.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Wise
  • Fool
  • Event

• The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.

  

  Aristotle
  • Pain
  • Pleasure
  • Aim

• Religious ideas about good and evil tend to focus on how to achieve well-being in the next life, and this makes them terrible guides to securing it in this one. Of course, there are a few gems to be found in every religious tradition, but insofar as these precepts are wise and useful they are not, in principle, religious.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Life
  • Good
  • Focus

• Food-wise, I'm trying to eat a lot of fruits. I take vitamin pills. For me, that's helpful. Luckily, if I don't go to the gym for two weeks, I'm not feeling it yet, but everybody is warning me, 'Just wait a few more years. You'll feel it.'

  

  Martin Garrix Area21
  • Trying
  • Feeling
  • Food

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