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I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing,
and that is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
Related topics: Wisdom
It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom.
It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest
might weaken and the wisest might err.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy,
and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
- Thomas Jefferson
It is a wise father that knows his own child.
- William Shakespeare
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Before beginning a Hunt, it is wise to ask someone
what you are looking for before you begin looking for it.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is,
he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.
- Helen Keller
The wise man does not lay up his own treasures.
The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.
- Lao Tzu
The wise man in the storm prays God,
not for safety from danger,
but for deliverance from fear.
It is the storm within which endangers him,
not the storm without.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A wise girl kisses but doesn't love,
listens but doesn't believe,
and leaves before she is left.
- Marilyn Monroe
Self-pity is our worst enemy
and if we yield to it,
we can never do anything wise in this world.
- Helen Keller
He who knows others is wise.
He who knows himself is enlightened.
- Lao Tzu
Take risks: if you win, you will be happy;
if you lose, you will be wise.
- Anonymous
An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere,
while the pessimist sees only the red stoplight.
The truly wise person is colorblind.
- Albert Schweitzer
The wise man looks into space,
and does not regard the small as too little,
nor the great as too much;
for he knows that there is no limit to dimensions.
- Lao Tzu
He is a wise man who does not grieve
for the things which he has not,
but rejoices for those which he has.
- Epictetus
Wise men put their trust in ideas
and not in circumstances
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Everyone is wise, until he speaks.
- Irish proverb
All this worldly wisdom was once
the unamiable heresy of some wise man.
- Henry David Thoreau
A wise man hears one word and understands two.
- Yiddish Proverb
A wise man can learn more from a foolish question
than a fool can learn from a wise answer.
- Bruce Lee
If you wish to succeed in life,
make perseverance your bosom friend,
experience your wise counselor,
caution your elder brother,
and hope your guardian genius.
- Joseph Addison
See no evil, Hear no evil, Speak no evil.
- Japanese pictorial maxim (the Three Wise Monkeys)
You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers.
You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
- Naguib Mahfouz
It is always wise to look ahead,
but difficult to look further than you can see.
- Winston Churchill
I have always been regretting that
I was not as wise as the day I was born.
- Henry David Thoreau
Excellence is the result of
caring more than others think wise,
risking more than other's think safe,
dreaming more than others think practical,
and expecting more than others think possible.
- Anonymous
The wise man looks back into the past,
and does not grieve over what is far off,
nor rejoice over what is near;
for he knows that time is without end.
- Lao Tzu
I was wise enough to never grow up
while fooling most people into believing I had.
- Margaret Mead
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance;
the wise grows it under his feet.
- J. Robert Oppenheimer
It is noted that a stopped clock is correct twice each day.
In a similar manner, a person who is unchanging appears wise occasionally.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.
- Publilius Syrus
Early to bed and early to rise,
makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
- Benjamin Franklin
A wise man will make haste to forgive,
because he knows the true value of time,
and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.
- Samuel Johnson
Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
- Albert Einstein
Religion is regarded by the common people as true,
by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
When you are winning a war
almost everything that happens
can be claimed to be right and wise.
- Winston Churchill
The more he became truly wise,
the more he distrusted everything he knew.
- Voltaire
A wise one said, "We are most like God when we forgive."
It is easy for us to blame, but hard for us to forgive.
Yet that is what we are called upon to do -
to forgive everyone for everything.
And the reward?
In this life, the reward for forgiveness
is your own happiness.
Unconditional universal forgiveness is
the key to your own happiness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man
are those of bearing and forbearing.
- Epictetus
It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures,
but the foolish to be a slave to them.
- Epictetus
Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down
on the tracks of history
to wait for the train of the future to run over him.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought,
sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve.
- The Buddha
Thoughtful people seldom share exactly the same opinion -
the same point-of-view.
The wise ones understand that they know nothing -
for virtually none of our experience is truly factual -
and they graciously honor all other opinions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It cannot be wisdom to assert the truth of one faith over another.
In our troubled world so full of contradictions,
the wise person makes justice his guide and learns from all.
- Akbar the Great (1542-1605)
Every day is a new beginning -
a day for a new plan and new action.
If today, in conscious awareness, you choose
the same plan as yesterday, you are wise.
If you choose a different plan, you are equally wise.
Whatever you choose, choose with intention.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A wise and frugal government,
which shall leave men free to regulate
their own pursuits of industry and improvement,
and shall not take from the mouth
of labor and the bread it has earned -
this is the sum of good government.
- Thomas Jefferson
To be idle is a short road to death
and to be diligent is a way of life;
foolish people are idle,
wise people are diligent.
- The Buddha
Laws are sand, customs are rock.
Laws can be evaded and punishment escaped,
but an openly transgressed custom brings sure punishment.
The penalty may be unfair, unrighteous, illogical, and a cruelty;
no matter, it will be inflicted, just the same.
Certainly, then, there can be but one wise thing
for a visiting stranger to do -
find out what the country's customs are,
and refrain from offending against them.
- Mark Twain
We are wiser than we know.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.
- Ludwig Boerne
In those days he was wiser than he is now;
he used to frequently take my advice.
- Winston Churchill
The whole problem with the world is that
fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves,
but wiser people so full of doubts.
- Bertrand Russell
Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world
doesn't mean you are wiser
than when it reached only to the end of the bar.
- Edward R. Murrow
I do not think much of a man who is
not wiser today than he was yesterday.
- Abraham Lincoln
You can make more friends in two months
by becoming interested in other people
than you can in two years by trying
to get other people interested in you.
- Dale Carnegie
Laugh, and the world laughs with you;
Weep, and you weep alone;
For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth,
But has trouble enough of its own.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take,
but by the moments that take our breath away.
- Anonymous
Between believing a thing and thinking you KNOW
is only a small step and quickly taken.
- Mark Twain
Pain is what the world inflicts upon us.
Suffering is our emotional reaction when we fail
to make the difficult conscious choice to choose Joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.
- Charlotte Bronte
None of us is perfect - and that's OK.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is a mask through which the universe expresses itself.
- Frank Herbert
You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you.
You have to go to them sometimes.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
No written law has ever been more binding
than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
- Carrie Chapman Catt
Not until we are lost
do we begin to understand ourselves.
- Henry David Thoreau
Learn to be calm and you will always be happy.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
I can't go back to yesterday -
because I was a different person then.
- Lewis Carroll
The only reason you suffer is because you choose to suffer.
The only reason you are happy is because you choose to be happy.
Happiness is a choice, and so is suffering.
- don Miguel Ruiz
If we are not happy and joyous at this season,
for what other season shall we wait and
for what other time shall we look?
- Abdul-Baha
How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.
- Publilius Syrus
Nothing is so firmly believed as what is least known.
- Michel de Montaigne
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