Wisdom Whispers: Enlightening Quotes from Across the Ages (Page 11)

"The fool inherits, but the wise must get"

"I endeavor to be wise when I cannot be merry, easy when I cannot be glad, content with what cannot be mended and patient when there be no redress"

Elizabeth Montagu, Writer

"During a negotiation, it would be wise not to take anything personally. If you leave personalities out of it, you will be able to see opportunities more objectively"

Brian Koslow

"The wise man reads both books and life itself"

Lin Yutang, Author

"A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion"

Grantland Rice, Journalist

"The American people may not be the best-educated, but they're very wise at heart"

Norman Lear, Producer

"A wise man looks upon men as he does on horses; all their comparisons of title, wealth, and place, he consider but as harness"

Robert Cecil, Public Servant

"Some folks are wise and some are otherwise"

Tobias Smollett, Writer

"We may simply not be wise enough to do some of the kinds of engineering things that people are talking about doing"

Leon Kass, Educator

"Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart"

Alan Alda, Actor

"Yet with great toil all that I can attain by long experience, and in learned schools, is for to know my knowledge is but vain, and those that think them wise, are greatest fools"

William Alexander

"For since the fabric of the universe is most perfect and the work of a most wise Creator, nothing at all takes place in the universe in which some rule of maximum or minimum does not appear"

Leonhard Euler, Mathematician

"It is a wise man who knows where courage ends and stupidity begins"

Jerome Cady

"Sad and sweet and wise Here a child reposes; Dust is on his eyes, Quietly he lies - Satan, strew Roses"

Robert Williams Buchanan, Poet

"At Athens, wise men propose, and fools dispose"

Alcuin, Clergyman

"Tell me I'm clever, Tell me I'm kind, Tell me I'm talented, Tell me I'm cute, Tell me I'm sensitive, Graceful and wise, Tell me I'm perfect - But tell me the truth"

Shel Silverstein, Poet

"It is wise to keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final"

Roger Babson, Educator

"He knew I enjoyed the relationships of college basketball. All along, he was the wise one"

Rick Pitino, Athlete

"It can't possibly last for years and browsing has its limits. Only a certain amount is healthy or wise"

Judith Krantz, Novelist

"We never can tell how our lives may work to the account of the general good, and we are not wise enough to know if we have fulfilled our mission or not"

Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards

"Men become wise just as they become rich, more by what they save than by what they receive"

Wilbur Wright, Inventor

"At what point does CNN wise up and rein in 'Larry King Live' to save itself?"

Phil Rosenthal, Journalist

"The care of a wise and good man for his only son is inferior to the regard of the great Parent of the universe for his creatures"

John Woolman, Clergyman

"Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable"

John Patrick, Playwright

"The Dalai Lama. He is a very wise man of great inner peace who believes that happiness is the purpose of our lives. Through his teachings and leadership, he continues to make this world a better place in which to live"

Sidney Sheldon, Novelist

"Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise"

Samuel Lover, Artist

"The modern horror audience is wise to our tricks this lets it in on the gag"

Robert Englund, Actor

"Wisdom is knowing when you can't be wise"

Paul Engle, Poet

"The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself"

Anna Jameson, Writer

"This character in the film, these things that he says which sound like advice and wise things, they are very common for Orientals. It's all the tradition"

Omar Sharif, Actor

"One should proceed with caution. We may simply not be wise enough to do some of the kinds of engineering things that people are talking about doing"

Leon Kass, Educator

"Its folly to be wise"

Thomas Gray, Poet

"Wise is he who enjoys the show offered by the world"

Fernando Pessoa, Author

"For if the mystery concealed of old is made manifest to the Apostles through the prophetic writings, and if the prophets, being wise men, understood what proceeded from their own mouths, then the prophets knew what was made manifest to the Apostles"

Origen, Theologian

"But Paul, in his preaching of the Gospel, is a debtor to deliver the word not to Barbarians only, but also to Greeks, and not only to the unwise, who would easily agree with him, but also to the wise"

Origen, Theologian

"Extreme nationalism and Bolshevism have broken up the old world, a new world is in the making. It is literally true that old things are passing away; all things may become new, granted we have wise, unselfish, and determined guides"

John Raleigh Mott, Celebrity

"The hallway of every man's life is paced with pictures; pictures gay and pictures gloomy, all useful, for if we be wise, we can learn from them a richer and braver way to live"

Sean O'Casey, Playwright

"Maybe politically it wasn't wise but when people have different view points I think the public has a right to hear it and the public has a right to make decisions based on those view points"

Scott McCallum, Politician

"It behoves thee to love God wisely; and that may thou not do but if thou be wise"

Richard Rolle, Writer

"If a wise man behaves prudently, how can he be overcome by his enemies? Even a single man, by right action, can overcome a host of foes"

Saskya Pandita, Leader

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