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Tag Name "Wise" (3053)

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Money cannot buy you happiness, and happiness cannot buy you money. That might be a wise crack, but I doubt it.
Groucho Marx
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Libraries keep the records on behalf of all humanity. the unique and the absurd, the wise and the fragments of stupidity.
Vartan Gregorian
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I'm not afraid to go out on a limb, style-wise or with lyrics. I don't ever want to be afraid to cut those types of songs because radio might not play it.
Lee Ann Womack
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The seven wise men of Greece, so famous for their wisdom all the world over, acquired all that fame, each of them, by a single sentence consisting of two or three words.
Robert South
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Aloneness is a wise teacher. Kierkegaard remarked that one sign of spiritual maturity was the ability to be comfortable when alone.
Vernon Howard
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To find that place between what I want and what I think is wise.
Veronica Roth
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Imagination cannot make fools wise, but it makes them happy, as against reason, which only makes its friends wretched: one covers them with glory, the other with shame.
Blaise Pascal
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My father was extremely loving to me and funny and wise and understanding, and at other times extremely demanding, critical, calculating, exacting. When you're a young woman, I think you want to please a lot, so maybe you accept more of the criticism than you would as an older person. But criticism can be very wounding. It certainly was to me.
Anjelica Huston
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Each of our passions, even love, has a stomach that must not be overloaded. We must in everything write the word 'finis' in time we must restrain ourselves, when it becomes urgent we must draw the bolt on the appetite, play a fantasia on the violin, then break the strings with our own hand. The Wise man is he who knows when and how to stop.
Victor Hugo
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Profound hearts, wise minds, take life as God makes it it is a long trial, and unintelligible preparation for the unknown destiny.
Victor Hugo
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The wise man does not grow old, but ripens.
Victor Hugo
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During a wise man's whole life, his destiny holds his philosophy in a state of siege.
Victor Hugo
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We are wise, wise women. We are giggling girls.
Ani DiFranco
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The very cheapness of literature is making even wise people forget that if a book is worth reading, it is worth buying. No book is worth anything which is not worth much nor is it serviceable, until it has been read, and re-read, and loved, and loved again and marked, so that you can refer to the passages you want in it.
John Ruskin
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Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.
Viktor E. Frankl
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A wise judge, by the craft of the law, was never seduced from its purpose.
Robert Southey
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A wise mother knows: It is her state of consciousness that matters. Her gentleness and clarity command respect. Her love creates security.
Vimala McClure
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Silence is the adornment of the wise, and for the foolish the only dignity possible.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
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The tongue of a fool is the key of his counsel, which, in a wise man, wisdom hath in keeping.
Socrates
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Yes, God uses the uneducated to confound the wise. But that doesn't make ignorance a virtue.
Andy Stanley
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The wise man guards against the future as if it were the present.
Publilius Syrus
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Working from home is so, so hard because I want to be present for them and yet there's so much to do work-wise. That's the biggest challenge for me.
Andy Serkis
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Self-esteem comes from being able to define the world in your own terms and refusing to abide by the judgments of others.
Oprah Winfrey
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Just as a wise man can say something foolish, a fool can say something wise.
Vincent Bugliosi
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