"A word to the wise ain't necessary -- it's the stupid ones that need the advice."
— Bill Cosby

"Give a bowl of rice to a man and you will feed him for a day. Teach him how to grow his own rice and you will save his life."
— Confucius

"I have tried to be a [wo]man of letters in love with ideas in order to be a wiser more loving person, hoping to leave the world just a little better than I found it."
— Cornel West

"A man with hope has everything"
— Fortune cookie

"The wisest men follow their own direction."
— Euripides

"Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise."
— Quintus Horatius Flaccus

"There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man."
— Patrick Rothfuss

" You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift.
You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.
You cannot help the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.
You cannot further brotherhoold of man by encouraging class hatred.
You cannot establish sound security on borrowed money.
You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than you earn.
You cannot build character and courage by taking away men's initiative and independence.
You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves."
— Abraham Lincoln

"I would have made a good pope."
— Richard Nixon

"The trouble with Grace, she thought, is that she is so literal. But that was the trouble with most people, when it came down to it; there were very few who enjoyed flights of fantasy, and to have that sort of mind--one which enjoyed dry with and understood the absurd--left one in a shrinking minority."
— Alexander McCall Smith (The Careful Use of Compliments)

"Nothing gives a sadder sense of decay than this loss or suspension of the power to deal with unaccustomed things, and to keep up with the swiftness of the passing moment. [Speaking of self-posed isolation in old age.]"
— Nathaniel Hawthorne

"There are two people in the world; the people who step up to any challange, and the people who cry in the closet. Which one are you?"
— Random

"The aspirations of democracy are based on the notion of an informed citizenry, capable of making wise decisions. The choices we are asked to make become increasingly complex. They require the longer-term thinking and greater tolerance for ambiguity that science fosters. The new economy is predicated on a continuous pipeline of scientific and technological innovation. It can not exist without workers and consumers who are mathematically and scientifically literate. "
— Ann Druyan

"...well darling, keep busy, and take the advice of an old woman; find happiness inside of you, don't rely on others for happiness; its hard, but I found it to be rather true.""
— Alla Nazimova

"All weddings are similar, but every marriage is different.

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— john beger

"The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool."
— William Shakespeare

"I am enormously wise and abysmally ignorant"
— William Saroyan (My Heart's in the Highlands)

"In this world only the paranoid survive.
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— Dean Koontz Midnight

"So said Hair-Face, and they killed him, because, they said, he was a wild man and wanted to go back and live in a tree. It was very strange. Whenever a man arose and wanted to go forward all those that stood still said he went backward and should be killed. And the poor people helped stone him, and were fools. We were all fools, except those who were fat and did no work. The fools were called wise, and the wise were stoned. Men who worked did not get enough to eat, and the men who did not work ate too much."
— Jack London (To Build a Fire and Other Stories)

"it's better to have a book and not need one than to need a book and not have one"
— j. matthew johnson

"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference."
— Robert Frost

"Give to every child in America a spelling book and a free schoolroom, and to every intelligent and respectable perosn, black and white, man and woman, a ballot and freedom of government, and you will see that this country will stand stronger and stronger amidst the ruins of dissolving empires and falling thrones."
— Anna Dickinson

"It is not at all necessary to be handsome or pretty; all that is needful is charm, the charm that holds the attention of the spectator, so that he listens rapt,and on leaving seeks to be alone, in order to recapture the charm he felt."
— Sarah Bernhardt

"...people always grow more foolish, unless they take care to grow wiser and wiser..."
— Nathaniel Hawthorne (A Wonder Book: Heroes and Monsters of Greek Mythology)

"Even though we are smart enough to do anything, it doesn't mean we have to."
— - Random

"Don't make fun of people, all it proves is how much of an ass YOU really are."
— Random

"You have only one life, and does that give someother wise guy's right to give that away."
— Random

""little prince:if a sheep eats bushes does it eat flowers too?
antione:a sheep eats whatever it finds
little prince:even a flower with thorn?
antione:even a flower with thorns.
little prince:than whats the good of thorns?"
— Antione de saint-Exupery

"This was a freedom essential to the health even of a character so little susceptible of morbid influences as that of Phoebe. The old house [with dry rot in its structure and perhaps also in its inhabitants];...it was not good to breathe no other atmosphere that that."
— Nathaniel Hawthorne