The Wise Quotes

An epigram is only a wisecrack that's played at Carnegie Hall.

All things are filled full of signs, and it is a wise man who can learn about one thing from another.

Live from the wise voice in your heart, and each day will blossom

Most fears cannot withstand the test of careful scrutiny and analysis. When we expose our fears to the light of thoughtful examination they usually just evaporate.

A man in a passion, rides a mad horse.

Everyday is a new life to a wise man.

Any attempts at autobiography before the age of eighty seem pretty self-involved to me. There are a lot of smart middle aged people but not many wise ones.

Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men.

Even the wisest men make fools of themselves about women, and even the most foolish women are wise about men

The days that make us happy make us wise

A man is not called wise because he talks and talks again; but if he is peaceful, loving and fearless then he is in truth called wise.

I wanted to talk about a lot of stuff that I've been through. Party-wise, it's taken me almost a decade to party enough to accumulate enough experiences that I could sing about and put in one song!

We all have that inner voice that is wise, even if we don't always follow it. It's that voice I'm trying to listen to.

I think guitar-wise, Eric Clapton was a big influence on me. I got to spend time around him. He's kind of strange, mysterious, serious and he always has played such hot guitar.

Better be an old maid, a woman with herself as a husband, than the wife of a fool; and Solomon more than hints that all men are fools; and every wise man knows himself to be one.

Final cut is overrated. Only fools keep insisting on always having the final word. The wise swallow their pride in order to get to the best possible cut.

He is one of those wise philanthropists who, in a time of famine, would vote for nothing but a supply of toothpicks.

For visions come not to polluted eyes.

By reason of gifts and bribes the offices be given to rich men, which should rather have been executed by wise men.

Nor love, not honor, wealth nor power, can give the heart a cheerful hour when health is lost. Be timely wise; With health all taste of pleasure flies.

The Lord hath created medicines out of the earth, and he that is wise will not abhor them.

The wise man is wise in vain who cannot be wise to his own advantage. [Lat., Nequicquam sapere sapientem, qui ipse sibi prodesse non quiret.]

Man is wise and constantly in quest of more wisdom; but the ultimate wisdom, which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed.

Fortune confounds the wise, And when they least expect it turns the dice.

Even if a fool lived with a wise man all his life, he would still not recognise the truth, like a wooden spoon cannot recognise the flavour of the soup.

Use your imagination lovingly on behalf of another.

The wise man hath his thoughts in his head; the fool, on his tongue.

When a wise man points at the moon the imbecile examines the finger.

A wise unselfishness is not a surrender of yourself to the wishes of anyone, but only to the best discoverable course of action.

When a wise man does not understand, he says: "I do not understand." The fool and the uncultured are ashamed of their ignorance. They remain silent when a question could bring them wisdom.

Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.

A wise person once wrote, “Resentment is like drinking poison and hoping the other person would die.” But the only one dying is ourselves.

There is no one who can give you wiser advice than you can give yourself: you will never make a slip, if you listen to your own heart.

Dieting is the only game where you win when you lose!

I believe that President Clinton considered the legal merits of the arguments for the pardon as he understood them, and he rendered his judgment, wise or unwise, on the merits.

Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.

In the middle of nowhere, an old wooden bridge is a golden bridge!

Knowledge is the treasure of a wise man.

When you talk to the half-wise, twaddle; when you talk to the ignorant, brag; when you talk to the sagacious, look very humble and ask their opinion.

If you are a sparrow, don't attack the eagle; be wise! If you are an eagle, don't attack the sparrow; be just!

I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in either of them: Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden.

The unexpectedness of life, waiting round every corner, catches even wise women unawares (...) To avoid corners altogether is, after all, to refuse to live.

In solitude, where we are least alone.

Impatience can cause wise people to do foolish things.

Do you not know...that a child badly taught is farther from being wise than one not taught at all?

As a wise man once said, “April Fools Day is for amateurs. You NEVER need an excuse to mess with people's heads.”

We ought to fly away from earth to heaven as quickly as we can; and to fly away is to become like God, as far as this is possible; and to become like him is to become holy, just, and wise.

Shall we ever live to see the following wise prohibition - the audience is forbidden to smoke and the masters are forbidden to 'smoke out' the audience by playing exchanging variations?

The brash unbridled tongue, the lawless folly of fools, will end in pain. But the life of wise content is blest with quietness, escapes the storm and keeps its house secure.

I think if I did something in the pop world right now, it would be for Rihanna. I'd love to do something production wise for her.