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.
Buddha
The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve.
Buddha
Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
Albert Einstein
It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look further than you can see.
Winston Churchill
When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.
Winston Churchill
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 the bread it has earned - this is the sum of good government.
Thomas Jefferson
Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.
Benjamin Franklin
Life's Tragedy is that we get old to soon and wise too late.
Benjamin Franklin
Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.
Benjamin Franklin
A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.
William Shakespeare
It is a wise father that knows his own child.
William Shakespeare
Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise.
William Shakespeare
Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.
William Shakespeare
I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.
Edgar Allan Poe
The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
Aristotle
The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life - knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.
Aristotle
Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the rest is in the hands of God.
George Washington
The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.
Oscar Wilde
Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.
Theodore Roosevelt
A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men.
Plato
Perfection consists not in doing extraordinary things, but in doing ordinary things extraordinarily well."
Angelique Arnauld
Decision is often the difference between greatness and mediocrity. In every man's life there comes a time when he must search for a cause, a work, an ideal to which he can give himself. Whether he says 'Yes' or 'No' to the challenge will determine his future.
Wilfred A. Peterson
Take time for good books; time to absorb the thoughts of poets and philosophers, seers and prophets.
Take time for good books; time to absorb the thoughts of poets and philosophers, seers and prophets.
Wilfred Peterson
Wise is the person who profits from the mistakes of the past, recognizes the opportunities of the present, and anticipates the challenges of the future.
Wise is the person who profits from the mistakes of the past, recognizes the opportunities of the present, and anticipates the challenges of the future.
William A. Ward
Words, like tranquil waters behind a dam, can become reckless and uncontrollable torrents of destruction when released without caution and wisdom.
Words, like tranquil waters behind a dam, can become reckless and uncontrollable torrents of destruction when released without caution and wisdom.
William Arthur Ward
I gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which I must stop and look fear in the face. . . I say to myself, I've lived through this and can take the next thing that comes along. . . We must do the things we think we cannot do.
I gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which I must stop and look fear in the face. . . I say to myself, I've lived through this and can take the next thing that comes along. . . We must do the things we think we cannot do.
Eleanor Roosevelt
