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Bruce Lee Quotes and Sayings
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A wise man can learn more from a foolish question
than a fool can learn from a wise answer.
- Bruce Lee

Related topics: Wisdom

Wise Quotes and Sayings

No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is,
he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.
- Helen Keller

He who knows others is wise.
He who knows himself is enlightened.
- Lao Tzu

If you wish to succeed in life,
make perseverance your bosom friend,
experience your wise counselor,
caution your elder brother,
and hope your guardian genius.
- Joseph Addison

I was wise enough to never grow up
while fooling most people into believing I had.
- Margaret Mead

A wise girl kisses but doesn't love,
listens but doesn't believe,
and leaves before she is left.
- Marilyn Monroe

The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought,
sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve.
- The Buddha

You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers.
You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
- Naguib Mahfouz

It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures,
but the foolish to be a slave to them.
- Epictetus

Self-pity is our worst enemy
and if we yield to it,
we can never do anything wise in this world.
- Helen Keller

I have always been regretting that
I was not as wise as the day I was born.
- Henry David Thoreau

All this worldly wisdom was once
the unamiable heresy of some wise man.
- Henry David Thoreau

It is a wise father that knows his own child.
- William Shakespeare

For the wise man looks into space
and he knows there is no limited dimensions.
- Lao Tzu

Everyone is wise, until he speaks.
- Irish proverb

The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man
are those of bearing and forbearing.
- Epictetus

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.
- Samuel Johnson

Early to bed and early to rise,
makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
- Benjamin Franklin

It is always wise to look ahead,
but difficult to look further than you can see.
- Winston Churchill

Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.
- Publilius Syrus

Wise men put their trust in ideas
and not in circumstances
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance;
the wise grows it under his feet.
- J. Robert Oppenheimer

A wise man hears one word and understands two.
- Yiddish Proverb

Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down
on the tracks of history
to wait for the train of the future to run over him.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere,
while the pessimist sees only the red stoplight.
The truly wise person is colorblind.
- Albert Schweitzer

Religion is regarded by the common people as true,
by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

When you are winning a war
almost everything that happens
can be claimed to be right and wise.
- Winston Churchill

Thoughtful people seldom share exactly the same opinion -
the same point-of-view.
The wise ones understand that they know nothing -
for virtually none of our experience is truly factual -
and they graciously honor all other opinions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

To be idle is a short road to death
and to be diligent is a way of life;
foolish people are idle,
wise people are diligent.
- The Buddha

The more he became truly wise,
the more he distrusted everything he knew.
- Voltaire

A wise and frugal government,
which shall leave men free to regulate
their own pursuits of industry and improvement,
and shall not take from the mouth
of labor and the bread it has earned -
this is the sum of good government.
- Thomas Jefferson

The wise man in the storm prays God,
not for safety from danger,
but for deliverance from fear.
It is the storm within which endangers him,
not the storm without.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The wise man does not lay up his own treasures.
The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.
- Lao Tzu

He is a wise man who does not grieve
for the things which he has not,
but rejoices for those which he has.
- Epictetus

Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
- Albert Einstein

Take risks: if you win, you will be happy;
if you lose, you will be wise.
- Anonymous

Every day is a new beginning -
a day for a new plan and new action.
If today, in conscious awareness, you choose
the same plan as yesterday, you are wise.
If you choose a different plan, you are equally wise.
Whatever you choose, choose with intention.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

A wise one said, "We are most like God when we forgive."
It is easy for us to blame, but hard for us to forgive.
Yet that is what we are called upon to do -
to forgive everyone for everything.
And the reward?
In this life, the reward for forgiveness
is your own happiness.
Unconditional universal forgiveness is
the key to your own happiness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

See no evil, Hear no evil, Speak no evil.
- Japanese pictorial maxim (the Three Wise Monkeys)

Excellence is the result of
caring more than others think wise,
risking more than other's think safe,
dreaming more than others think practical,
and expecting more than others think possible.
- Anonymous

Laws are sand, customs are rock.
Laws can be evaded and punishment escaped,
but an openly transgressed custom brings sure punishment.
The penalty may be unfair, unrighteous, illogical, and a cruelty;
no matter, it will be inflicted, just the same.
Certainly, then, there can be but one wise thing
for a visiting stranger to do -
find out what the country's customs are,
and refrain from offending against them.
- Mark Twain

No Quotes and Sayings

No written law has ever been more binding
than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
- Carrie Chapman Catt

No man is a failure who enjoys life.
- William Feather

Where there is no accusation of "fault,"
there can be no anger.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

No one is in control of your happiness but you;
therefore, you have the power to change anything
about yourself or your life that you want to change.
- Barbara De Angelis

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
- Proverb

Every form of addiction is bad,
no matter whether the narcotic
be alcohol or morphine or idealism.
- Carl Jung

We have no enemies,
we have only friendships that we haven't yet developed
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

We live in a wonderful world that is
full of beauty, charm and adventure.
There is no end to the adventures that we can have
if only we seek them with our eyes open.
- Jawaharlal Nehru

A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu

A man must be both stupid and uncharitable
who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
- Joseph Addison

No person was ever honored for what he received.
Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
- Calvin Coolidge

There is no neutrality.
There is only greater or lesser
awareness of one's bias.
- Phyllis Rose

Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.
- Leonardo da Vinci

I was born on the prairies where the wind blew free
and there was nothing to break the light of the sun.
I was born where there were no enclosures.
- Geronimo

No amount of self-improvement can make up
for a lack of self-acceptance.
- Anonymous

The most pathetic person in the world
is someone who has sight, but has no vision.
- Helen Keller

No matter what happens, someone will find a way
to take it too seriously.
- Dave Barry

If I had no sense of humor,
I would long ago have committed suicide.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Where there is no struggle, there is no strength.
- Oprah Winfrey

Make your "yes" mean yes,
and your "no" mean no.
- John Wooden

Good for who? Good for what?
There is no absolute "good."
"Good" is simply one person's preference.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers
of acting and reasoning as fear.
- Edmund Burke

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men.
No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
- Elbert Hubbard

Genuine heroes - no batteries needed -
bring lots of open-mind and at least a little courage.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Everyone thinks of changing the world,
but no one thinks of changing himself.
- Leo Tolstoy

NO ONE is really different;
each of us is actually a member of the human race.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

People will do anything, no matter how absurd,
to avoid facing their own souls.
- Carl Jung

Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences.
No one can eliminate prejudices -
just recognize them.
- Edward R. Murrow

Where there is no emotion,
there is no motive for violence.
- the character Spock in the Star Trek television series

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.
- Helen Keller

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