Wise Chinese Quotes

#1. A wise Chinese saying--'A frog at the bottom of a well has a limited view of the sky.

Dave And Neta Jackson

#2. Just look at the Chinese characters used for the names of the days of the week. Color-wise, Monday (Moon) would be yellow. Tuesday (Fire) is red. Wednesday (Water) is blue. Thursday (Wood) is green. Friday (Gold) would be gold, Saturday (Earth) would be light brown. sunday (Sun) would be white.

Nagaru Tanigawa

#3. We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.

Warren Weaver

#4. Choice is the greatest power in the universe; and it is all yours.

John Patrick Hickey

#5. When it comes to Chinese food I have always operated under the policy that the less known about the preparation the better. A wise diner who is invited to visit the kitchen replies by saying, as politely as possible, that he has a pressing engagement elsewhere.

Calvin Trillin

#6. Those who are wise won't be busy, and those who are too busy can't be wise.

Lin Yutang

#7. The only part of Christian teachings which will be truly accepted by the Chinese people is Christ's injunction to be "harmless as doves" but "wise as serpents.

Lin Yutang

#8. I couldn't do my homework if my room wasn't clean. And it has carried on now that I am older, in a very freakish way.

Shaun White

#9. If you have a problem, if you have a fire in your house, would you want - don't want your neighbors to give you a hand? That's what we have.

Lukman Faily

#10. One conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study in a public school.

D.B. Patterson

#11. Wen you're a married man, Samivel, you'll understand a good many things as you don't understand now; but vether it's worth while goin' through so much to learn so little, as the charity-boy sand ven he go to the end of the alphabet, it's a matter of taste.

Charles Dickens

#12. If you think advantage lies in resources, then you think the best educational system is the one that spends the most money.

Malcolm Gladwell

#13. Everything I've ever let go of had claw marks on it.

David Foster Wallace

#14. Sometimes I feel like one of those sliding tile puzzles. I just get so dang close to what I want to see in the mirror and who I want to be ... but then I have to completely jumble up the pieces to try to get even closer.

Erica Goros

#15. Up through around twenty-five he'd never even thought about his back: it was a balanced, frictionless, self-regulating system. Now it felt like a busted gearbox into which somebody had chucked a handful of sand.

Lev Grossman

#16. With regard to electric vehicles, I am all for them because most of the incremental electricity needed to run those vehicles will come from gas-fired electric generation. However, I do not believe it is wise for America to substitute dependence on foreign oil for dependence on Chinese batteries.

Aubrey McClendon

#17. Remember that you are young, beautiful, individual and unique and that is worth everything in this world.

Troian Bellisario

#18. Chinese are wise in comprehending without many words what is inevitable and inescapable and therefore only to be borne.

Pearl S. Buck

#19. The sun reflects off the side mirror, momentarily blinding me. And all I can think is: how is the sun shining when my heart is breaking?

Cheryl McIntyre

#20. Your ability to work with people directly affects your ability to get work done in the world.

Robert Greene

#21. There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.

George Armstrong Custer

#22. A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study.
- Chinese proverb

Alvin Toffler

#23. She is made up of depths even the ocean couldn't fathom.

Jessica Katoff

#24. It is not wise [for Chinese] to do things to artificially disrupt relations with the U.S.

Jiang Zemin