Wise Moderation Quotes & Sayings

So numerous indeed and so powerful are the causes which serve to give a false bias to the judgment, that we, upon many occasions, see wise and good men on the wrong as well as on the right side of questions of the first magnitude to society. This circumstance, if duly attended to, would furnish a lesson of moderation to those who are ever so much persuaded of their being in the right in any controversy. — Alexander Hamilton

I don't want to be a propagandist or say that Pakistan is just great. There are problems, but it is a much more complex place than we are given to believe. — Mohsin Hamid

She's poison of the worst kind, a slow disease that eats the heart and rapes the soul. — C.M. Stunich

- "What is reality?"
- "One of the many possible illusions. — Robert Sheckley

When men say things used to be better, they invariably mean they were better for them, because they were young, and had all their hopes intact. — Joe Abercrombie

A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation. — Moliere

It is the part of a wise man, I say, to refresh and restore himself in moderation with pleasant food and drink, with scents, with the beauty of green plants, with decoration, music, sports, the theater, and other things of this kind, which anyone can use without injury to another. — Baruch Spinoza

Once and for all, I did not use steroids or any other illegal substance. — Mark McGwire

No march, movement, or agenda that defines manhood in the narrowest terms and seeks to make women lesser partners in this quest for equality can be considered a positive step. — Angela Davis

If you believe in a cause, you must be willing to put yourself on the line for that cause. — Adam Clayton

O dear Pan and all the other gods of this place, grant that I may be beautiful inside. Let all my external possessions be in friendly harmony with what is within. May I consider the wise man rich. As for gold, let me have as much as a moderate man could bear and carry with him. — Plato