Best wise & speak Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I became fascinated with the concept of speak no, see no, hear no evil. And - and the actual depiction of three wise monkeys. And I began collecting it over the years. And I kind of figured that I might be the - the fourth monkey, the feel no evil monkey.”

Feels Years Kind Might Three Evil Speak Wise Concepts Fascinated Fourth Monkeys Collecting Depiction

Author:Mackenzie Phillips

“My mother went to a school called 'The Club of the Three Wise Monkeys'. And my grandmother, my father's mother, had a gold charm for her made with the speak no, see no, hear no evil monkeys. And I was fascinated by that charm. I'd sit in my mother's lap and play with it all the time.”

Made Play School Mother Three Evil Father Speak Wise Gold Clubs Charm Grandmother Fascinated Monkeys My Grandmother Lap

Author:Mackenzie Phillips

“The courage to speak must be matched by the wisdom to listen.”

Wisdom Speak Wise Clever Matched

Author:Charles E. McKenzie

“Life is short - while we speak it flies; enjoy, then, the present, and forget the future; such is the moral of ancient poetry, a graceful and a wise moral - indulged beneath a southern sky, and all deserving, the phrase applied to it - the philosophy of the garden.”

Life Philosophy Life Is Speak Enjoy Forget Moral Wise Sky Future Garden Ancient Phrases Southern Life Is Short Deserving

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“Speak not at all, in any wise, till you have somewhat to speak; care not for the reward of your speaking, but simply and with undivided mind for the truth of your speaking.”

Mind Care Speak Wise Speech Rewards

Book:Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: Collected and Republished

Source: Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: Collected and Republished

“The stupid speak of the past, the wise of the present, and fools of the future.”

Past Speak Wise Stupid Fool

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen”

Men Speak Wise Mountain Wilderness Climbing Hiking Hiking In The Mountains

Author:John Muir

“No greater evil can a man endure Than a bad wife, nor find a greater good Than one both good and wise; and each man speaks As judging by the experience of his life.”

Men Evil Speak Marriage Greater Wise Wife Judging Endure Greater Good

Book:The Tragedies of Sophocles: A New Trans., with a Biographical Essay, and an Appendix of Rhymed Choral Odes and Lyrical Dialogues

Source: The Tragedies of Sophocles: A New Trans., with a Biographical Essay, and an Appendix of Rhymed Choral Odes and Lyrical Dialogues

“It will often be a question when a man is or is not wise in advancing unpalatable opinions, or in preaching heresies; but it can never be a question that a man should be silent if unprepared to speak the truth as he conceives it.”

Ifs Men Should Speak Opinion Wise Silent Preaching Heresy Speak The Truth Advancing Often Is Unprepared

Author:George Henry Lewes

“When facts speak, the wise man listens.”

Men Facts Speak Wise

Book:The Wind Through the Keyhole: The Dark Tower IV-1/2

Source: The Wind Through the Keyhole: The Dark Tower IV-1/2

“It is not, then, in the content or substance of folly that its difference from truth lies, but in where it comes from. It comes not from 'the wise man's mouth' but from the mouth of the subject assumed not to know and speak the truth.”

Knows Men Lying Speak Differences Wise Subjects Mouths Substance Folly Speak The Truth

Book:Giving Offense: Essays on Censorship

Source: Giving Offense: Essays on Censorship

“I am glad you are come. When I was in England I desired that some one would speak the Great Word to me. I will go up and speak to the wise men of our nation, and I hope they will hear.”

Men Speak Nations Wise England Glad

Author:Tomochichi

“Ale is meat, drink and cloth; it will make a cat speak and a wise man dumb.”

Men Speak Wise Drink Cat Dumb Meat Ale

Book:The works of Jonathan Swift ...: with copious notes and additions, and a memoir of the author

Source: The works of Jonathan Swift ...: with copious notes and additions, and a memoir of the author

“We had probably our best ever Player of the Year Dance last week. You elected Dennis Wise as Player of the Year. Dennis accepted his award mimicking Vialli, whereupon Zola shouted 'Speak English', Dennis switched to his normal Cockney voice only for Zola to shout 'You're still not speaking English'.”

Years Stills Lasts Speak Voice Wise Player Week Football Normal Accepted Managers Soccer Awards Chairman Speak English Mimicking Best Ever Zola Cockneys

Author:Ken Bates

“What astonishing changes a few years are capable of producing! I am told that even respectable characters speak of a monarchical form of government without horror. From thinking proceeds speaking, thence to acting is often but a single step. But how irrevocable and tremendous! What a triumph for the advocates of despotism to find that we are incapable of governing ourselves, and that systems founded on the basis of equal liberty are merely ideal and falacious! Would to God that wise measures may be taken in time to avert the consequences we have but too much reason to apprehend.”

“These are the signs of a wise man: to reprove nobody, to praise nobody, to blame nobody, nor even to speak of himself or his own merits.”

Men Wisdom Speak Wise Praise Blame Merit

Author:Epictetus

“Does a man speak foolishly?--suffer him gladly, for you are wise. Does he speak erroneously?--stop such a man's mouth with sound words that cannot be gainsaid. Does he speak truly?--rejoice in the truth.”

Men Doe Suffering Speak Sound Talking Wise Mouths Rejoice

Author:Oliver Cromwell

“The wise hand doth not all that the foolish mouth speakes. [The wise hand doth not all that the foolish mouth speaks.]”

Hands Speak Wise Mouths Foolish

Author:George Herbert

“It had that comfortably sprung, lived-in look that library books with a lively circulation always get; bent page corners, a dab of mustard on page 331, a whiff of some reader's spilled after-dinner whiskey on page 468. Only library books speak with such wordless eloquence of the power good stories hold over us, how good stories abide, unchanged and mutely wise, while we poor humans grow older and slower.”

Humans Looks Book Stories Speak Grows Poor Wise Reader Pages Library Corners Dinner Bent Eloquence Whiskey Good Story Lively Circulation Sprung Library Books Mustard Dabs

Book:Salem's Lot

Source: Salem's Lot

“The wise leader speaks rarely and briefly. After all, no other natural outpouring goes on and on. It rains and then it stops. It thunders and then it stops.”

Speak Natural Leadership Leader Wise Goes On Rain Thunder Wise Leaders

Book:The Tao of Leadership: Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching Adapted for a New Age

Source: The Tao of Leadership: Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching Adapted for a New Age

“Wise men speak because they have something to say”

Men Speak Wise Communication Fool Thought Provoking Introvert Fools And Wise Wise Wisdom Speak Less Ancient Greek Philosophers Speaking My Mind

Author:Plato

“Plato says that the punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is, to live under the government of worse men; and the like regret is suggested to all the auditors, as the penalty of abstaining to speak,--that they shall hear worse orators than themselves.”

Men Government Suffering Speak Wise Regret Refuse Punishment Penalties Plato Orators Auditors Abstaining

Book:Society and Solitude: Twelve Chapters

Source: Society and Solitude: Twelve Chapters

“To fight against pride, it is wise to surround ourselves with those who know us and love us enough to speak into our lives with words of correction and rebuke.”

Knows Enough Fighting Speak Wise Our Lives Pride And Love Surround Corrections Rebuke

Author:Paul Washer

“Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent.”

Source: Mindset StackingTM Inspirational Journal VolumeSS01

“Too many are not willing to give the Gospel a fair trial. They are too ignorant to speak wisely but not wise enough to speak ignorantly. A man is not a sinner because he is a skeptic; he is a skeptic because he is a sinner.”

Men Giving Enough Speak Wise Willing Fairs Trials Ignorant Sinner Skeptic Fair Trial

Author:Vance Havner

“When a wise man chooses a sane basis for his arguments, it is no great task to speak well.”

Men Wells Speak Wise Argument Tasks Bases Sane

Author:Euripides

“The one who wanders independent in the world, free from opinions and viewpoints, does not grasp them and enter into disputations and arguments. As the lotus rises on its stalk unsoiled by the mud and the water, so the wise one speaks of peace and is unstained by the opinions of the world.”

World Doe Speak Water Opinion Wise Argument Independent Wander Mud Stalking Viewpoints Lotuses

Author:Gautama Buddha

“Stupid speaks loudly; he makes noise like pigs! Wise man speaks calmly; he makes sound like quiet lakes!”

Men Speak Sound Wise Stupid Quiet Noise Lakes Pigs

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“Think as wise men do, but speak as the common people do.”

People Thinking Men Speak Common Wise

Author:Aristotle

“The foolish took their lamps, but took no oil (pursued ministry as their priority over getting oil). The wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps (pursued oil as their priority before ministry). At the dark midnight hour of history, the Spirit will raise up forerunners who cry out that Jesus is coming as a Bridegroom God and that we must go out to meet Him (make the necessary effort to encounter Him). They all slept which speaks of living in context to the natural processes of life.”

Spirit Jesus Speak Process Hours Natural Dark Effort Wise Cry Raises Oil Foolish Priorities Encounters Ministry Midnight Lamps Vessel Pursued Raise Up Forerunners Bridegroom Process Of Life

Author:Mike Bickle

“Read critically, write consciously; speak clearly; tell your truth!”

Writing Speak Wise

Author:Clint Smith

“Leading with character gives the wise leader clear-cut advantages. They are easier to trust and follow; they honor commitments and promises; their words and behavior match; they are always engaged in and by the world; they are open to "reflective backtalk": they can speak with conviction because they believe in what they are saying...and everyone else knows that. They are comfortable in their own skin. They feel at ease in the spotlight and they enjoy it there. They tend to be more receptive to opportunity and risk.”

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