A Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with A. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“A wise person is able to save a city;
a fool is able to destroy a nation.”
“A wise person is full of questions. A dull person is full of answers.”
“A wise person is he who can see a person how he sees himself.”
“A wise person is like a smoothly polished rock: it takes time to become either.”
“A wise person is on firm ground,
a fool is on thin ice,
and an evil person is already drowning.”
“A wise person is silent and rarely wants to show his wisdom. A fool is always vocal and uses every opportunity to show his foolishness.”
“A wise person is the one who knows what he knows and what he does not know.”
“A wise person is wise because he trusts his own being.”
“A wise person knows that he should not allow his roots to grow too deep in this world, for the deeper they grow here, the shallower they become in spirituality.”
“A wise person knows that there are always two choices available in any conversation - agreement and agreement.”
Source: Quantraz
“A wise person laughs and smiles through the eyes. . . . The smile and laughter through the eyes influence people tremendously. No energy leaks if you smile through the eyes.”
“A wise person makes one error,
and learns ten lessons.
He makes two errors,
and learns twenty lessons.
He makes three errors,
and learns thirty lessons.
He makes few errors,
and learns countless lessons.”
“A wise person makes use of one opportunity where as a fool misses a thousand.”
“A wise person never says anything that disturbs her well-being.”
Source: The Kodach Secrets: The Book of Real-Life Transformation
“A wise person once told her that the way you leave something is the way you enter what's next. You don't want to be taking negative energy into the next endeavor.”
Source: Saving Red: The True Story of a Rescued Horse Turned Rescuer
“A wise person once wrote, “Resentment is like drinking poison and hoping the other person would die.” But the only one dying is ourselves.”
“A wise person says well what he or she thinks, but is wary of himself or herself and what he or she says.”
Source: The Sunrise Scrolls: To Life from the Shadows II
“A wise person speaks carefully and with truth, for every word tht passes between one's teeth is meant for something.”
“A wise person strives to reach self-transcendence by engaging in delicate contemplation, while avoiding the snare of self-denigration’s negative invocation. An overshadowing sense of a caustic self can be destructive, whereas an encircling sense of a kindhearted self allows a person to express the profundity and elation of a feral creature curiously exploring nature’s glorious playground.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“A wise person understands the value in asking questions.”
“A wise person will listen and take in more instruction.”
“A wise physician, skill'd our wounds to heal, is more than armies to the public weal.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Alexander Pope (Illustrated)
“A wise player ought to accept his throws and score them, not bewail his luck.”
“A wise politician will never grudge a genuflexion or a rapture if it is expected of him by prevalent opinion.”
“A wise prince must never take things easy in times of peace.”
“A wise prince then...should never be idle in times of peace but should industriously lay up stores of which to avail himself in times of adversity so that when fortune abandons him he may be prepared to resist her blows.”
“A wise prince will seek means by which his subjects will always and in every possible condition of things have need of his government, and then they will always be faithful to him.”
Source: The Prince
“A wise Providence consoles our present afflictions by joys borrowed from the future.”
“A wise quote can only change a wise man! Therefore, wise sayings are for the wise men, not for the fools! The sunflowers turn their face toward the Sun, the fools, toward the darkness!”
“A wise quote may not be famous and a famous quote may not be wise! Stick to the wise as the other one is just a bubble!”
“A wise reader reads the book of genius not with his heart, not so much with his brain, but with his spine. It is there that occurs the telltale tingle.”
Source: Lectures on Literature
“A wise response is measured, calm, and thoughtful, it turns challenges into opportunities and diffuses conflict with grace.”
Source: Tales of Habib the Hoaxter: Sometimes Hoaxed, Always Good for a Laugh
“A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests.”
“A wise ruler should rely on what is under his own control, not on what is under the control of others.”
Source: Machiavelli: The Prince
“A wise ruler takes advice, but should never be seen to take it. Let them think you know more than you do. It will not harm them, and it will help you.”
Source: The Shadow Rising: Book Four of 'The Wheel of Time'
“A wise saying is something you keep picking up off the floor in front of your fridge”
“A wise seeks the knowledge and a fool seeks the money.”
“A wise skepticism is the first attribute of a good critic.”
“A wise son makes a glad father, But a foolish son is the grief of his mother.”
“A wise soul once declared that the ultimate power of the writer is that he has the choice of whom he wants to be co-opted by.”
Source: The Paradise Suite: Bobos in Paradise and On Paradise Drive
“A wise student is better than a foolish teacher.”
“A wise student is greater than an intelligent teacher.”
“A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn.”
Source: The Pleasures of Life
“A wise system of education will at least teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn.”
Source: The Pleasures of Life
“A wise teacher learns in the midst of teaching; a wise student teaches in the midst of learning.”
“A wise traveler never despises his own country.”
“A wise traveler never despises his own country.
[It., Un viaggiatore prudente non disprezza mai il suo paese.]”
“A wise traveller never despises his own country.”
“A wise unselfishness is not a surrender of yourself to the wishes of anyone, but only to the best discoverable course of action.”
“A wise walker will set out early, keeping an open mind on how far to travel, allowing each day's adventure to evolve.”
Source: Assis Walking Adventure Guide