Quotes of: Wisely Keyword

The Supreme Court has ruled that they cannot have a nativity scene in Washington, D.C. This wasn't for any religious reasons. They couldn't find three wise men and a virgin.

Jay Leno

Life is a pilgrimage. The wise man does not rest by the roadside inns. He marches direct to the illimitable domain of eternal bliss, his ultimate destination.

Swami Sivananda

A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.

Epictetus

The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forbearing.

Epictetus

It is a wise man that does know the contented man is never poor, whilst the discontented man is never rich.

Frank Herbert

A smart man only believes half of what he hears, a wise man knows which half.

Jeff Cooper

To speak and to speak well, are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.

Ben Jonson

The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world.

Charles Caleb Colton

John Green is a very handsome, intelligent, and wise man. He smells really weird though.

Hank Green

When complaints are freely heard, deeply considered and speedily reformed, then is the utmost bound of civil liberty attained that wise men look for.

John Milton

Count Dracula: For one who has not lived even a single lifetime, you're a wise man, Van Helsing.

Dracula

Wise Man #1: We were led by a star. Brian's mother: Led by a bottle, more like.

Life of Brian

Niki Lauda: A wise man can learn more from his enemies than a fool from his friends.

Rush

The skilful employer of men will employ the wise man, the brave man, the covetous man, and the stupid man.

Du Mu

Why should I ask the wise men: Whence is my beginning? I am busy with the thought: Where will be my end?

Muhammad Iqbal

To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man.

Aristotle

We can learn much from wise words, little from wisecracks, and less from wise guys.

William Arthur Ward

The wise man knows that it is better to sit on the banks of a remote mountain stream than to be emperor of the whole world.

Zhuangzi

Pray thee, spare, thyself at times: for it becomes a wise man sometimes to relax the high pressure of his attention to work.

Thomas Aquinas

When the fool knows when to be silent, he would be sitting among the wise.

Czech