Wise Quotes

Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gambl...

What you did tonight was clever,” Wit said. “You turned an attack into a promise. The wisest of men ...

What could be more beautiful than a dear old lady growing wise with age? Every age can be enchanting...

A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.

When it comes to Chinese food I have always operated under the policy that the less known about the ...

The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge...

No one could be so wise as Thurlow looked.

So may the New Year be a happy one to you, happy to many more whose happiness depends on you!

Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are...

Beware the irrational, however seductive. Shun the ‘transcendent’ and all who invite you to subordin...

Since this often seems to come up in discussions of the radical style, I'll mention one other gleani...

The way of the superior person is threefold; virtuous, they are free from anxieties; wise they are f...

I have tried to be a man of letters in love with ideas in order to be a wiser and more loving person...

Just because opportunities present themselves doesn't mean you should accept every one of them. It's...

Don't be afraid to be weird for being wise.

Wise people put as much distance between themselves and sexual temptation as possible. They not only...

Every wise, just, and mild government, by rendering the condition of its subjects easy and secure, w...

Even the wisest and the best of us can be foolish occasionally.

In this world only the paranoid survive.

As a vessel is known by the sound, whether it be cracked or not; so men are proved, by their speeche...

A bird & a fish can fall in love, but where do they make a home?

The wise musicians are those who play what they can master.

Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the f...

I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect...

The wisdom of our ancestors.

Wise anger is like fire from a flint: there is great ado to get it out; and when it does come, it is...

Ignoring fame was my rebellion, in a funny way. I was insistent on being normal and doing normal thi...

When we looked at the life cycle in our 40s, we looked to old people for wisdom. At 80, though, we l...

The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us ...

The good and the wise lead quiet lives.

The wisest men follow their own direction.

He was a wise man who originated the idea of God.

Some wisdom you must learn from one who's wise.

It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, be...

Wise and humane management of the patient is the best safeguard against infection.

You can lose a friend in springtime easier than any other season if you're too curious.

Wise men make more opportunities than they find.

Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all which ma...

It is impossible to love and to be wise.

Wise men make more opportunities than they find.

Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all which ma...

It is impossible to love and to be wise.

Wise men make more opportunities than they find.

Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all which ma...

It is impossible to love and to be wise.

Wise men make more opportunities than they find.

Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all which ma...

It is impossible to love and to be wise.

If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despoti...

It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.

My world has just become perfect, midnight is also noonday, pain is also joy, a curse is also a bles...

Truth exists for the wise, beauty for the feeling heart.

They would need to be already wise, in order to love wisdom.

We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.

How can she? She's incapable of understanding anything. Besides, do any of us understand what we are...

He that is not handsome at 20, nor strong at 30, nor rich at 40, nor wise at 50, will never be hands...

Your dear baby has died innocent and blameless, and has been called away by an all wise and merciful...

Laughter is poison to fear.

Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.

In Greece wise men speak and fools decide.

Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair the rest is in the hands of God.

The man who has sufficient power over himself to wait until his nature has recovered its even balanc...

Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.

It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite eas...

Man is wise and constantly in quest of more wisdom; but the ultimate wisdom, which deals with beginn...

I never think of myself as wise. I think of myself as possessing a critical intelligence which I int...

I have not been that wise. Health I have taken for granted. Love I have demanded, perhaps too much a...

No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable r...

The boy gathers materials for a temple, and then when he is thirty, concludes to build a woodshed

Most of the luxuries, and many of the so called comforts of life, are not only indispensable, but po...

All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.

A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.

The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.

A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own ...

Wise to resolve, and patient to perform.

In youth and beauty wisdom is but rare!

Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise.

No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may ...

Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know—and yet not wise enough to control our learning an...

Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning ...

The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.

Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery.

Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not b...

It's the deep breath before the plunge.

Who has believed in the world and died with its name on his lips?

So said Hair-Face, and they killed him, because, they said, he was a wild man and wanted to go back ...

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party po...

There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well.The more I see of the ...

It would be most right, and most wise, and, therefore must involve least suffering.

The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored.

Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

'Swan,' by Mary Oliver. Poems and prose. Reading from this book is as if visiting a very wise friend...

Don't follow any advice, no matter how good, until you feel as deeply in your spirit as you think in...

Like a missing tooth, sometimes an absence is more noticeable than a presence.

Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.

Divide and rule, the politician cries;Unite and lead, is watchword of the wise.

When did you get so clever?""When I realized I wasn't as clever as I thought.

And then something invisible snapped insider her, and that which had come together commenced to fall...

How will I ever get out of this labyrinth!" to a margin note written in her loop-heavy cursive: Stra...

She has great breasts," the Colonel said without looking up from the whale."DO NOT OBJECTIFY WOMEN'S...