Wise Quotes
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From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus
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Few things are necessary to make the wise man happy while no amount of material wealth would satisfy a fool. I am not a fool.
Og Mandino
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No changing of place at a hundred miles an hour will make us one whit stronger, or happier, or wiser. There was always more in the world than man could see, walked they ever so slowly; they will see it no better for going fast. The really precious things are thought and sight, not pace. It does a bullet no good to go fast; and a man, if he be truly a man, no harm to go slow; for his glory is not at all in going, but in being.
John Ruskin
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Online transactions, once relegated to leaps of faith, have evolved into our status quo. We no longer ask ourselves whether or not it's wise to buy online. Instead, we ask whether or not it's wise to deal with a particular person, service provider, or business.
Leah Busque
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Design-wise, I look at everything. If I don't personally design it, I'll review it. I'm kind of creative director of the firm.
Peter Marino
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Had I succeeded well, I had been reckoned amongst the wise; our minds are so disposed to judge from the event.
Euripides
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Such a man, truly wise, creams off Nature leaving the sour and the dregs for philosophy and reason to lap up.
Jonathan Swift
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The fact is that not only do people get more wise and more conservative as they get older, they get more kind and more generous, too.
Dennis Prager
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As Benjamin Franklin said, 'Those things that hurt, instruct.' It is for this reason that wise people learn not to dread but actually to welcome problems and actually to welcome the pain of problems.
M. Scott Peck
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The wise man must be wise before, not after, the event.
Epicharmus of Kos
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Whoever yields properly to Fate, is deemed Wise among men, and knows the laws of heaven.
Euripides
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To fear death, gentlemen, is no other then to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know.
Plato
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A story should, to please, at least seem true,
Be apropos, well told, concise, and new:
And whenso'er it deviates from these rules,
The wise will sleep, and leave applause to fools.
Benjamin Stillingfleet
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I had now-not for the first time, nor the thousandth-trampled upon an old and wise and stern maxim of mine, to wit: 'Supposing is good, but finding out is better.'
Mark Twain
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To be smart, spend carefully. To be wise, save regularly. To be genius, give extravagantly.
Chip Ingram
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Performance-wise, you really need to be down in the trenches; you need to do the hard work, for a lot of reasons: To build yourself as a performer, to get a sense of the audience, to work hard and to wonder, 'Do I really want to do this?'
Joan Jett
