Wise Quotes

When we looked at the life cycle in our 40s, we looked to old people for wisdom. At 80, though, we look at other 80-year-olds to see who got wise and who not. Lots of old people don't get wise, but you don't get wise unless you age. Erik Erikson
Life Wisdom You Wise Age People Old Other Our Unless Though See Look Looked Got Lots Get Old People Cycle Who
You ask: what is the meaning or purpose of life? I can only answer with another question: do you think we are wise enough to read God's mind? Freeman Dyson
Life God You Wise Mind Think Enough Only Purpose Read Another Answer Question Meaning Ask
No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight. H. L. Mencken
Wise Man Woman Matter Long He Becomes How Average Ever Lives
No man is great enough or wise enough for any of us to surrender our destiny to. The only way in which anyone can lead us is to restore to us the belief in our own guidance. Henry Miller
Great Wise Man Surrender Guidance Own Enough Our Way Destiny Restore Only Lead Any Anyone Which Us Belief
The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence. Herodotus
Wise Man Wise Man Hateful Misfortune Most Human Influence
Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished from the public councils, because they dare to be honest, and the profligate are rewarded, because they flatter the people, in order to betray them. Joseph Story
Wise People Intelligence Fall To Be Honest Virtue Dare Citizens Spirit Betray Because Banished Rewarded Order Flatter Public Republics Them Created Honest
You'll have to forgive me this boldness, but I think women are very fortunate that men exist! The gods are very wise and certainly knew what they were doing. They created the sun and the moon, light and darkness, the eagle and the serpent, all for the same reason. They are perfect complements and the mechanism we use to reach heaven. Laura Esquivel
Me You Wise Women Darkness Light Moon Men Think Sun Perfect Knew Reach Doing Were Exist Women Are Very Gods Same Forgive Forgive Me Heaven Created Use Fortunate Certainly Reason Mechanism Boldness Serpent Eagle
It's often been said that you learn more from losing than you do from winning. I think, if you're wise, you learn from both. You learn a lot from a loss. You learn what is it that we're not doing to get to where we want to go. It really gets your attention and it really motivates the work ethic of your team when you're not doing well. Morgan Wootten
Work You Wise Losing Think More Both Winning Attention Well Learn Said Doing Go Motivates Been Loss Lot Than Get Gets Often Where Want Work Ethic Ethic Really Your Team
Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men? Natalie Clifford Barney
You Wise Men Thieves Possessions Divide Wise Men Like Grab Them Ignore Why Socialists
Be wise; soar not too high to fall; but stoop to rise. Philip Massinger
Wise Fall Too High Rise Stoop Soar
When I can look life in the eyes, grown calm and very coldly wise, life will have given me the truth, and taken in exchange - my youth. Sara Teasdale
Life Wisdom Truth Me Wise Youth Eyes Will Calm Given Exchange Taken Look Very Grown
A wise woman recognizes when her life is out of balance and summons the courage to act to correct it, she knows the meaning of true generosity, happiness is the reward for a life lived in harmony, with a courage and grace. Suze Orman
Happiness Life Wise Balance Woman Courage Grace Reward Harmony Correct Out True Generosity She Knows Meaning Meaning Of Act Lived Her
Look wise, say nothing, and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought. William Osler
Wise Thought Nothing Say Given Conceal Look Grunt Speech
Search well and be wise, nor believe that self-willed pride will ever be better than good counsel. Aeschylus
Good Wise Better Pride Will Believe Counsel Well Nor Than Search Ever
I resolved to stop accumulating and begin the infinitely more serious and difficult task of wise distribution. Andrew Carnegie
Wise Difficult Resolved Distribution More Begin Accumulate Task Infinitely Stop Serious Difficult Task
When we become a really mature, grown-up, wise society, we will put teachers at the center of the community, where they belong. We don't honor them enough, we don't pay them enough. Charles Kuralt
Teacher Wise Honor Will Become Pay Community Society Enough Put Mature Where Center Them Really Teachers Grown-Up Belong
It's bad taste to be wise all the time, like being at a perpetual funeral. D. H. Lawrence
Time Wise Bad Bad Taste Like Perpetual Taste Being Funeral
May none but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof. David McCullough
Wise Roof Men Rule Wise Men None May Ever Honest
It takes a wise man to discover a wise man. Diogenes
Wise Man Wise Man Takes Discover
Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible. Eric Hoffer
Good Wise Few Living Consists Possible Habits Perhaps Than Acquiring Less Good Habits
You are wise, witty and wonderful, but you spend too much time reading this sort of stuff. Frank Crane
Time You Wise Wonderful Too Much Reading Too Too Much Time Spend Stuff Sort Witty Time Reading Much
The only things standing between you and the compassionate, wise, and creative person you want to be are matters of choice. Your choice. No one can occupy your generosity except you. Gary Zukav
You Wise Creative Matters Only Except No-One Generosity Between Occupy Person Want Choice Your Standing Creative Person Compassionate Things
It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods. H. L. Mencken
God Wise Impossible Imagination Universe Omnipotent Run Easy Gods Quite Just Board Imagine
Some deemed him wondrous wise, and some believed him mad. James Beattie
Wise Mad Some Him Wondrous Deemed Believed
The monsters of our childhood do not fade away, neither are they ever wholly monstrous. But neither, in my experience, do we ever reach a plane of detachment regarding our parents, however wise and old we may become. To pretend otherwise is to cheat. John le Carre
Wise Experience Old Parents Become Otherwise Monsters Monstrous Our Neither Detachment Pretend Fade Cheat Reach However May Childhood Regarding Plane Wholly Away Ever
The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier. Jonathan Swift
Life Wise Latter Follies Part Occupied Opinions False Contracted Curing Person Prejudices Earlier
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