Intelligent and Wise Quotes

"No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted." - Aesop

"Never criticize a man until you've walked a mile in his moccasins." - American Indian Proverb

"Happiness depends upon ourselves." - Aristotle

"We make war that we may live in peace." - Aristotle

"The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself." - Sir Richard Francis Burton  (Submitted by Renzo)

"The best prophets of the future is the past." - George Gordon Noel Byron

"Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime." - Chinese Proverb

"He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." - Chinese Proverb

"The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale." - Arthur C. Clarke

"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody." - Bill Cosby

"A handful of patience is worth more than bushel of brains." - Dutch Proverb

"Imagination is more important than knowledge..." - Albert Einstein

"Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody." - Benjamin Franklin

"Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it." - Andre Gide

"I am more and more convinced that our happiness or unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life, than on the nature of those events themselves." - Humboldt  (Submitted by Chocolateweasels)

"The most terrifying fact about the universe is not that it is hostile but that it is indifferent, but if we can come to terms with this indifference, then our existence as a species can have genuine meaning.... However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light." - Stanley Kubrick  (Submitted by Chocolateweasels)

"Can we change the world? No, but hell we can all try." - Rupert Murdoch  (Submitted by Renzo)

"Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys." - P.J. O'Rourke  (Submitted by Renzo)

"When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends." - Japanese Proverb

"Be your word." - Bill Peery

"If you can solve your problem, then what is the need of worrying? If you cannot solve it, then what is the use of worrying?" - Shantideva

"If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself." - Spanish Proverb

"Belief is like love: it can not be compelled; and as any attempt to compel love produces hate, so it is the attempt to compel belief which first produces real unbelief." - Arthur Schopenhauer  (Submitted by Chocolateweasels)

"If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything." - Mark Twain