The most effective comeback to an insult is silence..
In my whole life, I have known no wise people (over a broad subject matter area) who didn't read all the time - none, zero. You'd be amazed at how mu….
It is the briefest yet wisest maxim which tells us to meddle not..
In my whole life, I have known no wise people who didn't read all the time - none ... ZERO..
To fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise without really being wise, for it is to think that we know what we do not know..
I had a lot of anger inside me and that came out at times that were not particularly advantageous to me career-wise..
I think that we reject the evidence that our world is changing because we are still, as that wonderfully wise biologist E. O. Wilson reminded us, tri….
That is the hardest thing of all. It is much harder to judge yourself than to judge others. If you succeed in judging yourself, it's because you're t….
Reason is not like the goods sold in the market places--the more plentiful they are, the less they are worth. Reason's worth waxes with her abundance….
Temperate anger well becomes the wise..
The man who is truly good and wise will bear with dignity whatever fortune sends, and will always make the best of his circumstances..
To be wise means to be a teacher, means to be a soul winner. That's our business - That's our only business!.
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing..
Wise men are not wise at all times..
O prejudice, prejudice, prejudice, how many hast thou destroyed! Men who might have been wise have remained fools because they thought they were wise….
Look, I learned from your uncle that when the universe turns out to be insane, the wise man embraces insanity..
Sotomayor's vainglorious lecture bromide about herself as 'a wise Latina' trumping white men is a vulgar embarrassment - a vestige of the bad old day….
Happy is the bride that the sun shines on..
Will it not be wise to allow the friendship between nations to rest upon deep and permanent things? Irritations of the cuticle must not be confounded….
It is wise to turn circumstances to good account..
Wise anger is like fire from a flint: there is great ado to get it out; and when it does come, it is out again immediately..