It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look further than you can see.Quote by Winston Churchill
Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except all those others that...Quote by Winston Churchill about democracy, sin, time, perfection, world
When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.Quote by Winston Churchill about war, rightness
So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero about lie, truth, man
The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero about instinct, experience, reason
The ultimate goal is to be more satisfied. I really don't believe you get wiser because you get older. It's a choice, perhaps not to take some things so seriously.Quote by Boy George about purpose, things
And, hey, I'm not under the illusion that everything's just going to be hunky-dory work wise forever. I've never been under that illusion. Things could go away tomorrow.Quote by Mel Gibson about work, things
Make men wise, and by that very operation you make them free. Civil liberty follows as a consequence of this; no usurped power can stand against the artillery of opinion.Quote by William Godwin about consequences, opinion, liberty, power, man
The philosophy of the wisest man that ever existed, is mainly derived from the act of introspection.Quote by William Godwin about philosophy, man
I think the main reason my marriages failed is that I always loved too well but never wisely.Quote by Ava Gardner about marriage, reason
It would be a terrific innovation if you could get your mind to stretch a little further than the next wisecrack.Quote by Katharine Hepburn about innovation, mind
If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.Quote by Frank Herbert about common sense, sense
It is a wise man that does know the contented man is never poor, whilst the discontented man is never rich.Quote by Frank Herbert about man, wealth
The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.Quote by Herodotus about influence, human imperfections, man
A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.Quote by Samuel Johnson about wealth, ambition, man
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.Quote by Samuel Johnson about suffering, value, pain, time, man
Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.Quote by Samuel Johnson about lie, wealth, knowledge, man, truth