Quotes of: Wise-people Keyword

A person can choose to stand against adversity, but most people will run from it before they come to terms with who they truly are, a wise person watches through adversity and follows the signs when it is their turn to stand.

Faith Brashear

It's not that there are no masters, but that there are many. And the job of the solicitor general is to balance those masters and to accommodate them all, each in their proper places, wisely and well and in so doing to represent the people of the Uni...

Elena Kagan

Today, certain people file for bankruptcy, businesses and individuals, and it no longer has the stigma it once had. Now it's almost considered wise, a way to regroup and come back again.

David Dinkins

Sometimes I feel like if two parents were given $100, and a child-free person was given $100, everyone would assume that the parents would invest their money wisely because they're smart. And people like me would just go buy candy.

Jen Kirkman

People don’t treat a person actually wise by his capacity to give all suggestions good and nice, but by his capability to offer solutions to lies to make world better in the best interest of one and all.

Anuj Somany

A person understands other’s language only in tune with his attitude with most people all the time, so it’s wise to act nice with individuals only in proportion with the truth cherished in their lives.

Anuj Somany

Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own conceit. Proverbs 26.5

Biblical

Knowledge is power, as some say. But on some days it is just as much pain and confusion as it is power; and any wise man worth his salt as a wise man at least understands this. One may be able to comprehend all the human perspectives in the universe,...

Killosophy

There is no man...however wise, who has not at some period in his youth said things, or lived a life, the memory of which is so unpleasant to him that he would gladly expunge it. And yet he ought not entirely to regret it, because he cannot be certai...

Remembrance of Things Past: Volume I - Swann's Way & Within a Budding Grove

The foolish of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of god is stronger than men. For ye see your calling, brethren, how that may not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called, but God hath chosen the foolish things...

A Wrinkle in Time

We are often at odds with our wise and loving Lord because the change he is working on is not the change we have dreamt about. We dream about change in it, while God is working in the midst of it to change us.

How People Change: How Christ Changes Us by His Grace

I have lived to see that being seventeen is no protection against becoming seventy, but to know this needs the experience of a lifetime, for no imagination copes with it.

The Curse Of The Wise Woman

I should have shouted "No" and left him. "But at least" said Satan in the deeps of my mind, "know what the temptation is before you do anything hastily.

The Curse Of The Wise Woman

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.

The Dhammapada: The Sayings of the Buddha

Fools make feasts and wise men eat them.

Fart Proudly: Writings of Benjamin Franklin You Never Read in School

A fool sees himself as another, but a wise man sees others as himself.

How to Cook Your Life: From the Zen Kitchen to Enlightenment

A wise man once said that any human being is capable of infinite achievement, so long as it’s not the work they’re supposed to be doing.

Blue and Gold

Where does a wise man hide a leaf? In the forest. But what does he do if there is no forest? He grows a forest to hide it in.

The Innocence of Father Brown

A wise man is someone who knows how to convert obstacles into resources.

KISS Life "Life is what you make it"

A wise man governs his eyes, not because it is wrong to delight in beauty, but because otherwise his delight may suffer transmutation into something very different.

On the Meaning of Sex

Only fools imply compliments. The wise man comes right out with it, point-blank. Imply criticism--unless the criticized isn't within earshot.

Soldiers' Pay