Wisest quotes?

Question

Teacher:
"Just because you get 100% on something doesn't mean your work is perfection. You just reached the expectations."

For the movie The Girl in the Cafe(HBO movie)
Girl: "I was in jail for hurting a man"
Man: "Why? What'd he do?"
Girl: "He hurt a child."
Man: "Was it your child?"
Girl: "Does it matter?"

Abraham Lincoln:
"And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years."

MY question is what are the wisest quotes you've ever heard? Obviously nobody is going to click on "what's the best quote you've ever heard?" It's been done too many times.

Answer 1

Courage is not absence of fear but a Realisation tht somethng more is important

"fortune smile at some and laugh at others"

"After nine years, you know what I realize? Ignorance is bliss." Cypher,The Matrix

"Talking about love is like dancing about architecture"

"I'm not a smart man, but I know what love is"-forrest gump

Even in my dreams, I'm an idiot who knows he's about to wake up to reality.*vanilla sky

In Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love - they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock. (the third man)


Full Metal Jacket - "The dead only know one thing, it is better to be alive"

We talk a lot about self sacrifice, but it is exactly the 'self' that should not be sacrificed-The Fountainhead

With great power comes greater responsibility-spiderman 1

Avoid employing unlucky people - throw half of the pile of CVs in the bin without reading them.

live forver or die in attempt

Many things can be preserved in alcohol. Dignity is not one of them

i am realistic,i expext miracles

for what shall I wield a dagger, O lord?
what can i pluck it out of
or plunge it into
when you are all the world?

whast is live but to strive,to seek to find and not yield alfred tennyson

i see sweetness in her smile bright light smiles from our eye this life is complete,contentment is mine, just knowing that she is alive dead poet society

we are not laughing at u we are laughing near you dead poet society

Language is for hiding what you think.
Socrates

I admire him who reveals his mind to me; I honor him who unveils his dreams. But why am I shy, and even a little ashamed before him who serves me?
Khalil Gibraan.

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
--Pablo Picasso

SILENCE CANNOT BE MISQUOTED

in GOD we trust... all others must pay cash...

I pretend to work...They pretend to pay

History rhymes;it does not repeats


There are two kind of 10 people in the world : those who understand Binary and those who dnt!


FINALLY
A book of quotations . can never be complete.
- Robert M. Hamilton

Answer 2

i collect quotes and i have plenty...it's not gonna fit in here i think ..but here are some wise ones:

i love this one--> "Any girl can look glamorous...Just stand there and look stupid" - Doris Day

"The only thing we can't recycle is wasted time."

"Women need a reason to have sex, men just need a place."

"Enjoyment lies in the search for truth, not in the finding it." -Leo Tolstoy (Anna Karenina)

"You are not here because you have to make a choice. You have already made it. You are here to understand why you have made it....We never see a choice if we don't understand it." - Matrix

"All that really belongs to us is time, even he who has nothing else has that." -Baltasar Gracian

"Most men act so tough and strong on the outside because on the inside, we are scared, weak and fragile." - Jerry Rubin

"Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours." -Benjamin Disraeli

"Nobody believes the official spokesman, but everybody trusts an unidentified source." -Ron Nesen

"The public is wonerfully tolerant. It forgives everything except for genius." Oscar Wilde

"A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do." - Walter Bagehot.

"My wife and I were happy for twenty years. Then we met." - Rodney Dangerfield.

Answer 3

When you come to the edge of all the light you know,
and are about to step off into the darkness of the unknown,
faith is knowing one of two things will happen:
There will be something solid to stand on,
or you will be taught how to fly.
Barbara J. Winter

The sound of her silk skirt has stopped.
On the marble pavement, dust grows.
Her empty room is cold and still-
Fallen leaves are piled against the doors.
Longing for that lovely lady
How can I bring my aching heart to rest?
Han Wu-Ti 42 BC

To believe in God is impossible-
not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire

I have never made but one prayer to God,
a very short one:
“Oh, Lord, make my enemies ridiculous.”
And God granted it.
Voltaire

and my favorite....

The sky is deep, the sky is dark
The light of stars is so damn stark.
When I look up, I fill with fear
If all we have is what lies here.
This lonely world, this troubled place
Then cold dead stars and empty space.
Well, I see no reason to persevere
No reason to laugh or shed a tear.
No reason to sleep or ever to wake
No promises to keep, and none to make.
And so at night I still raise my eyes
To study the clear but mysterious skies
That arch above us as cold as stone.
Are you there, God? Are we alone?
The Book of Counted Sorrows

Answer 4

"O wad some Pow'r the giftie gie us
To see oursels as others see us!
It wad frae monie a blunder free us,
An' foolish notion".
From a poem - To a Louse.by the Scotsman, Robert Frost .
(He also wrote - Auld Lang Syne)

Another wise quote of his is "The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men Gang aft agley" from his poem -To a Mouse.

Here's the site for his poems
http://snipurl.com/w7p4

Answer 5

I LOve the one about the child....I collect quotes and I have never seen that before...thank you...I will add it to my collection,...Here are a few of my favorites...

"My religion is simple...my religion is Kindness" by Dali Lama

"There is no death...only a change of worlds" by Chief Seattle

"Making a decision to have a child..it's momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body" by Elizabeth Stone

"When I die the only sound I want to hear is my dear Jesus' voice saying my name" by me!

Answer 6

"Si vis pacem, para bellum." If you want peace, prepare for war.

Losers always whine about doing their best. winners go home and **** the prom queen.

this next one I made up.

"Life is a freight train. it just roars past and theres not a damn thing you can do to stop it or slow it down. you have two choices. wait for it to fly by or you can put pennies on the tracks. just for kicks."

Answer 7

The Desiderata

Answer 8

You don't need to do great things to have purpose in your life. You need only do small things with great love. Mother Theresa

thank you for this question. I enjoyed reading everyone's wonderful answers!

Answer 9

Unknown:
"To whom much is given, much is expected."

Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) said:
"Let him who believes in Allah and the Last Day either speak good or keep silent ..."

Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) said:
"Actions are but by intention and every man shall have but that which he intended..."

Answer 10

You call them wise quotes what the heck try: dont eat soup with a fork, or dont eat yellow snow!?