Top 100 Wise Thinking Quotes
#3. Every time a message seems to grab us, and we think, 'I just might try it,' we are at the nexus of choice and persuasion that is advertising.
Andrew Hacker
#9. The act of communicating with one another is the beginning of friendship.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#11. I think that we honor ourselves by honoring our past.
Jimi Hendrix
#17. The wise man applauds he who he thinks most virtuous; the rest of the world applauds the wealthy.
Samuel Johnson
#18. With careful guidance and mentorship, you will reach your highest-self.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#20. Think as wise men do, but speak as the common people do.
Aristotle.
#23. For the need to think can never be stilled by allegedly definite insights of "wise men"; it can be satisfied only through thinking, and the thoughts I had yesterday will satisfy this need today only to the extent that I want and am able to think them anew.
Hannah Arendt
#24. Wise man's mind is always very clear. When asked anything, he gives the answer directly almost without any thinking!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#25. I think with you, that nothing is of more importance for the public weal, than to form and train up youth in wisdom and virtue. Wise and good men are in my opinion, the strength of the state; more so than riches or arms.
Benjamin Franklin
#34. Imagination, abstraction, creativity, and coherence etc are some inherently cognitive and mental elements of architect-wise thinking.
Pearl Zhu
#35. The world needs the kind of education by means of which character is formed, strength of the mind is increased and the human intellect is expanded beyond its own limits.
Abhijit Naskar
#36. I've always used the technique of the cuento. I am an oral storyteller, but now I do it on the printed page. I think if we were very wise we would use that same tradition in video cassettes, in movies, and on radio.
Rudolfo Anaya
#42. A pipe gives a wise man time to think and a fool something to stick in his mouth.
C.S. Lewis
#43. Quoting E. B. White is the easiest way I know of to fool people into thinking that I am perceptive, witty, and wise.
Peter Behrens
#45. A story is like a nut," Vashet said. "A fool will swallow it whole and choke. A fool will throw it away, thinking it of little worth." She smiled. "But a wise woman finds a way to crack the shell and eat the meat inside.
Patrick Rothfuss
#47. As human beings in general ... I don't think we've grown that much. Technology wise, we are getting too intelligent for our own good.
Butterfly Boucher
#48. A pipe is the fountain of contemplation, the source of pleasure, the companion of the wise; and the man who smokes, thinks like a philosopher and acts like a Samaritan.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
#52. Producers think in the language of abundance rather than scarcity, take initiative instead of waiting for someone else to provide them with opportunity, and boldly venture wise risks instead of surrendering to fear that they can't make a difference.
Oliver DeMille
#56. He who thinks himself wise, O heavens! is a great fool.
Voltaire
#62. Don't live a day without your spiritual nourishment; mediation on the word of God.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#65. I think we should see whether we are wise trying to educate everybody to a high standard the way we are trying to do now. There has to be a high level of education so everybody is literate, but whether university education is necessary for everyone is open to question.
Robertson Davies
#67. He who lives without committing any folly is not so wise as he thinks.
[Fr., Qui vit sans folie n'est pas si sage qu'il croit.]
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#68. Kaye watched as he calmed somewhat, thinking that she should stop trying to anticipate what was going to happen next. After all, when you were already in a slippery place, reality-wise, you couldn't afford to assume things would be straight forward from here on in.
Holly Black
#69. I just think that Kimbo [Slice] in the future could be a great fighter. He's got the look and obviously he's got the marketability but skill-wise he really hasn't gotten an opportunity to settle in and develop on his skills.
Ken Shamrock
#72. Our forefathers found the evils of free thinking more to be endured than the evils of inquest or suppression. This is because thoughtful, bold and independent minds are essential to the wise and considered self-government.
Robert H. Jackson
#73. A Writer says: read what I have written An historian says: listen to my lecture A critic says: listen to what I think A journalist says: let me tell you a story.
Gideon Haigh
#74. I write not to record what I think but to discover what I think
David Malouf
#75. If the majority doesn't laugh at you, beware that you must be saying something wrong. When the majority thinks you are a fool, only then is there some possibility of you being a wise man.
Laozi
#77. What would you be like if you had white hair and had not given up your principles? It might be wise as you deal with coalition efforts to think about the possibilities of going for fifty years.
Bernice Johnson Reagon
#78. Don't dwell too much on the past. The lessons are useful for the present and a preparation for the future. Move on!
Lailah Gifty Akita
#80. Who can think wise or stupid things at all that were not thought already in the past.
[Ger., Wer kann was Dummes, wer was Kluges denken,
Das nicht die Vorwelt schon gedacht.]
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#81. What is natural, needs to be looked upon, scrutinized and reshaped by each generation of the world, to make it compatible with the path of progress of a civilized society.
Abhijit Naskar
#82. Babies are thinking and attracting before they are speaking. Even though you are only months old in your physical body, you are a very old and wise Creator, focused in that baby's body.
Esther Hicks
#83. A popular writer writes about what people think. A wise writer offers them something to think about.
Ambrose Bierce
#84. But curriculum-wise, I was drawn to the sciences and specifically to physics, and I really enjoyed it and I think for a little while there, I was really thinking my schooling would be in physics, that that was something I loved.
Brian Henson
#86. It is better work without being paid to fulfill a divine purpose than to be rich without any fulfillment.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#87. I think if we live with more compassion globally, I think we would be in a better place. We've had more then we have had as human beings technology wise.
Frank Grillo
#90. The wise does not think that only he is right -thus he knows the truth.
Laozi
#93. What you want in life is possible to achieve. Find the courage and begin the work
Lailah Gifty Akita
#94. Alas, how right the ancient saying is: We, who are old, are nothing else but noise And shape. Like mimicries of dreams we go, And have no wits, although we think us wise.
Euripides
#95. People are never so near playing the fool as when they think themselves wise.
Mary Wortley Montagu
#98. There are men who prefer to keep trouble from a woman, but it seems to me that is neither reasonable nor wise. I've always respected the thinking of women, and also their ability to face up to trouble when it comes, and it shouldn't be allowed to come on them unexpected.
Louis L'Amour
