499 Wise Quotes for You to Enjoy

As I have shown, I will defend democracy with arms when it is threatened by violence; with firmness when it is weakened by division; with law and order when it is subverted by anarchy; and always, I will try to sustain it by wise policies of economic progress so that a democracy means not just an empty liberty, but a full life for all. Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

Life Democracy Wise Progress Liberty Law Try Will Anarchy Weakened Threatened Law And Order Economic Division Firmness Policies Arms Empty Always Just Sustain Order Means Full Full Life Shown Violence Defend

If you're impatient while waiting for the bus, tell yourself you're doing 'Bus waiting meditation.' If you're standing in a slow line at the drugstore, you're doing 'Waiting in line meditation.' Just saying these words makes me feel very spiritual and high-minded and wise. Gretchen Rubin

A wise man, when he writes a book, sets forth his arguments fully and clearly; an enlightened ruler, when he makes his laws, sees to it that every contingency is provided for in detail. Han Fei

The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored. Jean de la Bruyere

Wise Fear Society Bored Wise Person Person Often Being

Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds. John Dryden

Love Wise Fool Minds Way Blinds Different Works Different Way Enlightens

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times. John Selden

Wise Communication People Dangerous Nothing Say People Say Wise People Times

Perfect reason flees all extremity, and leads one to be wise with sobriety. Moliere

Wise Extremity Perfect Leads Sobriety Reason

I find that it isn't wise to attempt to judge people on their public persona, and even on the music they make. Because I've met so many people whose music I cannot stand, and they're very nice. At the same time, I've met people whose music I've loved, and they're not the person you've invested all this emotion in. Morrissey

Music Time You Wise People Judge Met Nice Find Emotion Invested Attempt Make Because Very Person Persona Same So Many People Same Time Loved Cannot Public Stand Many Even Whose

If you realize you aren't so wise today as you thought you were yesterday, you're wiser today. Olin Miller

Today You Wise Thought Yesterday Wiser Were Realize

A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future. Oliver Goldsmith

Future Alone Great Wise Regret Past Lies Great Source Calamity Source Anticipation Person Regardless Who Therefore Present Thinks

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

Wise Word Preaching Easily Would Only Deliver Also Him Gospel Unwise His Debtor Greeks Barbarians Paul Who Agree

At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time. Ovid

Time Wise Delay Other Everything Hasten Folly Proper Times

In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool. Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

Wisdom Art Wise Fool Thou Thou Art Seeking Attained Imagining

A wise man has to always listen to the peers he surrounds around himself. That's why you surround yourself with other smart people. Captain Kirk keep Mr. Spock right beside him. Rza

You Wise Man Wise Man Yourself People Smart Surround Yourself Other Peers Beside Kirk Spock He Smart People Him Himself Around Always Surround Surrounds Listen Captain Keep Why Right

Call him wise whose actions, words, and steps are all a clear because to a clear why. Sara Teasdale

Wise Words Clear Steps Call Him Because Actions Whose Why

It is never wise to discourage youthful idealism. Stephen Kinzer

Wise Never Idealism Discourage Youthful

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

Life Wise Man Wise Man Destination Rest Life Is A Direct He Roadside Bliss Does Pilgrimage Ultimate His Domain Eternal Marches

The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love. Theodor Reik

Love Wise Man Fool Will Made Never Himself Who

I am content with nothing, restless and ambitious... and I despise myself for the vanity, which formed half the stimulus to my exertions. Oh would that I were one of those plodding wise fools who having once set their hand to the plough go on nothing doubting. Thomas Huxley

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