Wise Quotes
The wiser a man is, the less talkative will he be.
Ali bin Abu-Talib
A wise man first thinks and then speaks and a fool speaks first and then thinks.
Ali bin Abu-Talib
It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
Aeschylus
It's guid to be merry and wise, It's guid to be honest and true, It's guid to support Caledonia's cause And bide by the buff and the blue.
Robert Burns
Wise people are in want of nothing, and yet need many things. On the other hand, nothing is needed by fools, for they do not understand how to use anything, but are in want of everything.
Chrysippus
The mutual confidence on which all else depends can be maintained only by an open mind and a brave reliance upon free discussion.
Billings Learned Hand
The wise are wise only because they love.
Paulo Coelho
Mystery has its own mysteries, and there are gods above gods. We have ours, they have theirs. That is whats known as infinity.
Jean Maurice Eugne Clment Cocteau
In archery we have something like the way of the superior man. When the archer misses the center of the target, he turns round and seeks for the cause of his failure in himself.
Confucius
It takes a good memory to keep up a lie.
Pierre Corneille
Writing is not "the establishment of a professional reputation" as if one were a doctor or lawyer; it is not properly in the sentence with creation of a family and the purchase of a home.
Elizabeth Hardwick
When you have nothing to say, say nothing; a weak defense strengthens your opponent, and silence is less injurious than a bad reply.
Charles Caleb Colton
What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.
Confucius
The king, just and prudent, wants only those things which he can get.
Pierre Corneille
