Wise Quotes

• Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible.

  

  Eric Hoffer
  • Good
  • Wise

• We are born with only one face, but laughing or crying, wisely or unwisely, eventually we form our own.

  

  Coco Chanel
  • Wise
  • Born
  • Laughing

• Ah! how little knowledge does a man acquire in his life. He gathers it up like water, but like water it runs between his fingers, and yet, if his hands be but wet as though with dew, behold a generation of fools call out, 'See, he is a wise man!' Is it not so?

  

  H. Rider Haggard
  • Life
  • Up
  • Knowledge

• You can put out an album and it could be totally out of the window as far as what you want to do performance-wise.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Want
  • Wise
  • Albums

• A large number of deaf, crippled and blind people are afflicted solely through the malice of the demon. And one must in no wise doubt that plagues, fevers and every sort of evil come from him.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Blind
  • Deaf
  • Fevers

• A man is not called wise because he talks and talks again; but if he is peaceful, loving and fearless then he is in truth called wise.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Truth
  • Wise
  • Fearless

• The quad toms are a completely different animal than the standard drum set/trap kit. Playing wise and stylistically, they are two different beasts.

  

  Tommy Lee Mötley Crüe
  • Animal
  • Wise
  • Drum

• The way of the superior person is threefold; virtuous, they are free from anxieties; wise they are free from perplexities; and bold they are free from fear.

  

  Confucius
  • Way
  • Wise
  • Anxieties

• There never was a tonic that would cure more social ailments than a healthy, happy home. There never was a greater source of social stability than an affectionate and understanding family. There never was a better way of helping children to happiness than the close confidence of wise and loving and responsible parents.

  

  Richard L. Evans
  • Children
  • Home
  • Understanding

• Temperance is love surrendering itself wholly to Him who is its object; courage is love bearing all things gladly for the sake of Him who is its object; justice is love serving only Him who is its object, and therefore rightly ruling; prudence is love making wise distinction between what hinders and what helps itself.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Justice
  • Courage
  • Love Is

• Most of the things I do brand wise are both missionary and mercenary in their position, and that's really important to me; that's one of the first things I look at when I say, 'does it make sense to do a deal?'

  

  Mike Rowe
  • Important
  • Missionary
  • Brands

• Type of the wise who soar but never roam, True to the kindred points of heaven and home.

  

  William Wordsworth
  • Home
  • Heaven
  • Wise

• Chinese are wise in comprehending without many words what is inevitable and inescapable and therefore only to be borne.

  

  Pearl S. Buck
  • Words
  • Wise
  • Chinese

• The wise man bridges the gap by laying out the path by means of which he can get from where he is to where he wants to go.

  

  J. P. Morgan
  • Man
  • Wise
  • Bridges

• I am honoured to join education innovators like Ms. Vicky Colbert, Dr. Madhav Chavan, and Sir Fazle Hasan Abed as the fourth WISE Prize for Education Laureate. I accept this prize on behalf of the million girls Camfed is committed to supporting through secondary education.

  

  Ann Cotton
  • Education
  • Wise

• Develop the wise art of being radically truthful and remaining considerate, thoughtful, and safe.

  

  Claude Steiner
  • Art
  • Wise
  • Develop

• Praise and Prayer PRAISE is devotion fit for mighty minds, The diff'ring world's agreeing sacrifice; Where Heaven divided faiths united finds: But Prayer in various discord upward flies. For Prayer the ocean is where diversely Men steer their course, each to a sev'ral coast; Where all our interests so discordant be That half beg winds by which the rest are lost. By Penitence when we ourselves forsake, 'Tis but in wise design on piteous Heaven; In Praise we nobly give what God may take, And are, without a beggar's blush, forgiven.

  

  William Davenant
  • Men
  • Giving
  • Prayer

• Final cut is overrated. Only fools keep insisting on always having the final word. The wise swallow their pride in order to get to the best possible cut.

  

  Wim Wenders
  • Wise
  • Pride

• With children use force; with men reason; such is the natural order of things. The wise man requires no law.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Men
  • Children
  • Law

• I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise.

  

  Charles de Montesquieu
  • World
  • Wise
  • Fool

• A still tongue keeps a wise head.

  

  Barbara Ann Kipfer
  • Wise
  • Head
  • Tongue

• Therefore, do not eat meat which will cause terror among people, because it hinders the truth of emancipation; not to eat meat? this is the mark of the wise.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Wise
  • Terror
  • Emancipation

• I always see my wife as the clever one, as the wise one in the family.

  

  Sayed Kashua
  • Family
  • Wife
  • Clever

• A far greater glory is it to the wise to die for freedom, the love of which stands in very truth implanted in the soul like nothing else, not as a casual adjunct but an essential part of its unity, and cannot be amputated without the whole system being destroyed as a result.

  

  Philo
  • Truth
  • Soul
  • Freedom

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