Wisdom Quotes
Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots.
Karl Kraus
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools talk because they have to say something.
Plato
Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.
Benjamin Franklin
The fool wanders, a wise man travels.
Thomas Fuller
It takes a wise man to play a fool's part, but a fool makes-out of himself.
Unknown
Time falls on the wrong side of a fool, the wise man makes time.
Unknown
A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
Balthasar Gracian
Learning makes the wise wiser and the fool more foolish.
John Ray
The fool thinks himself to be wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.
William Shakespeare
A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top.
Unknown
Only a fool knows everything. A wise man knows how little he knows.
Unknown
Fools give you reasons, wise men never try.
Oscar Hammerstein II
A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.
William Blake
Wise men learn by other men's mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn
A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times.
Unknown
The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.
Benjamin Franklin
It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.
Epictetus
Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.
John Dryden
It takes a wise man to handle a lie, a fool had better remain honest.
Norman Douglas
Who are a little wise the best fools be.
John Donne
A fool despises good counsel, but a wise man takes it to heart.
Confucius
The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world.
Charles Caleb Colton
Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.
Charles Caleb Colton
Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.
Cato the Elder
"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds."
Unknown
Even a fool is wise after an event.
Albert Einstein
Before God we are equally wise and equally foolish.
Albert Einstein
"The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources."
Albert Einstein
"The only source of knowledge is experience"
Albert Einstein
"Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who read too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking."
Albert Einstein
"The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift."
Albert Einstein
"I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."
Albert Einstein
"What Life Means to Einstein: An Interview by George Sylvester Viereck," for the October 26, 1929 issue of The Saturday Evening Post.
Albert Einstein
"We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality."
Albert Einstein
"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity."
Albert Einstein
"Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who read too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking."
Albert Einstein
"Intelligence makes clear to us the interrelationship of means and ends. But mere thinking cannot give us a sense of the ultimate and fundamental ends. To make clear these fundamental ends and valuations and to set them fast in the emotional life of the individual, seems to me precisely the most important function which religion has to form in the social life of man."
Albert Einstein
"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds."
Albert Einstein
"Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods."
Albert Einstein
"When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge."
Albert Einstein
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
Galileo Galilei
"I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have."
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
"Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems."
Rene Descartes (1596-1650), "Discours de la Methode"
No lower can a man descend than to interpret his dreams into gold and silver
Kahlil Gibran
Some people see things that are and ask, Why? Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not? Some people have to go to work and don't have time for all that ...
George Carlin
The best reason for having dreams is that in dreams no reasons are necessary
Ashleigh (Ellwood) Brilliant
Thoughts are but dreams till their effects be tried.
William Shakespeare
To accomplish great things we must not only act but also dream, not only plan but also believe.
Anatole
To believe in one's dreams is to spend all of one's life asleep
Chinese Proverb
To move mountain, one should first move small stone.
Chinese Proverb
We must stop talking about the American dream and start listening to the dreams of Americans.
Max Beerbohm
When your dreams tire, they go underground and out of kindness that's where they stay.
Libby Houston
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion
G. W. F. Hegel
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm
Ralph Waldo Emmerson
Persistence is the twin sister of excellence. One is a matter of quality; the other, a matter of time.
Marabel Morgan
Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
John Quincy Adams
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
Herm Albright
Witty
In view of the fact that God limited the intelligence of man, it seems unfair that he did not also limit his stupidity.
Konrad Adenauer
The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
Brian Pickrell
A stupid man's report of what a clever man says is never accurate because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.
Bertrand Russell
Most fools think they are only ignorant.
Benjamin Franklin
The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits
Albert Einstein
A man explained inflation to his wife thus:
'When we married, you measured 36-24-36. Now you're 42-42-42. There's more of you, but you are not worth as much.'
Lord Barnett
Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That's how rich I want to be.
Rita Rudner
Money isn't everything but it sure keeps you in touch with your children.
J. Paul Getty
Money couldn't buy you friends, but you get a better class of enemy.
Spike Milligan
To be clever enough to get all the money, one must be stupid enough to want it.
G. K. Chesterton
You can't expect to hit the jackpot if you don't put a few nickels in the machine.
Flip Wilson
If all the world's a stage, I want to operate the trap door.
Paul Beatty
In life, it's not who you know that's important, it's how your wife found out.
Joey Adams
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
Oscar Wilde
Home wasn't built in a day.
Jane Sherwood Ace
I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.
Lily Tomlin
I wanna live 'til I die, no more, no less.
Eddie Izzard
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
Issac Asimov
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.
Robert Frost
Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.
Benjamin Franklin
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
Herm Albright
My experience has taught me that a man who has no vices has damned few virtues.
Abraham Lincoln
What some people mistake for the high cost of living is really the cost of high living.
Doug Larson
When you lie down with dogs, you get up with fleas.
Jean Harlow
Funny Quotes
"Those are my principles. If you don't like them I have others."
Groucho Marx
"Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society."
Mark Twain
A woman drove me to drink and I didn't even have the decency to thank her.
W. C. Fields
"Women need a reason to have sex. Men just need a place."
Billy Crystal
"I have nothing to declare except my genuis."
Oscar Wilde
"Money couldn't buy you friends, but you get a better class of enemy."
Spike Milligan
"All the men in my family were bearded, and most of the women."
W.C.Fields
"I once heard two ladies going on and on about the pains of childbirth and how men don't seem to know what real pain is. I asked if either of them ever got themselves caught in a zipper."
Emo Philips
"You're about as useful as a one-legged man at an arse kicking contest."
Rowan Atkinson a.k.a. Mr. Bean
"Arrogant and right is surely better than humble and wrong."
Geoff Arbuthnot
Doing nothing is very hard to do...you never know when you're finished.
Leslie Nielsen
The trouble with unemployment is that the minute you wake up in the morning you're on the job.
Slappy White
It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.
Muhammad Ali
I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
Jerome K Jerome
Its hard to tell if a two-faceted person is coming or going.
Unknown
Them callers have nothing on me, apart from a great job, big house, big car, two wives including mine...damm, where did I go wrong?
Unknown
Yeah, I know I'm ugly...I said to a bartender, 'Make me a zombie.' He said 'God beat me to it.'
Rodney Dangerfield
I was born in Alabama. I was raised in Georgia. I'm so Southern I'm related to myself. I have a 12-year-old daughter. She takes after my dad. She ought to. She's his.
Brett Butler
I said to the wife, "Guess what I heard in the pub? They reckon the milkman has made love to every woman in this road except one." And she said, "I'll bet it's that stuck up Phyllis at number 23."
Max Kauffmann
I sold my house this week. I got a pretty good price for it, but it made my landlord mad as hell.
Garry Shandling
My wife wares a mood ring. When she's in a good mood it turns blue. In a bad mood, all hell breaks loose.
Jeff Shaw
I've often wanted to drown my troubles, but I can't get my wife to go swimming.
Jimmy Carter
I said to my doctor, 'I've got a bad back.'
The doctor said, 'It's old age.'
Then I said, 'I want a second opinion.'
The doctor says: 'Okay - you're ugly as well.'
Unknown
There's an old saying - There's No Place Like Home. Well, I went in the house next door, but where is it.
Unknown
So I rang up British Telecom, I said 'I want to report a nuisance caller', he said 'Not you again'.
Frank Carson
Before you judge a man, walk a mile in his shoes. After that, who cares? ...He's a mile away and you've got his shoes.
Billy Connolly
I saw six men kicking and punching the mother-in-law. My neighbour said 'Are you going to help?' I said 'No, Six should be enough."
Les Dawson
Apparently, 1 in 5 people in the world are Chinese. And there are 5 people in my family, so it must be one of them. It's either my mum or my dad. Or my older brother Colin. Or my younger brother Ho-Chan-Chu. But I think it's Colin.
Tim Vine
So I went to the dentist. He said "Say Aaah." I said "Why?" He said "My dog's died.'"
Tim Vine
I was sued by a woman who claimed that she became pregnant because she watched me on television and I bent her contraceptive coil.
Uri Geller