The Wise Quotes

We must be wise taskmasters and not require of ourselves what we cannot possibly perform. Recreation we must have. Otherwise, the strings of our soul, wound up to an unnatural tension, will break.

Choosing a partner is choosing a set of problems. There are no problem-free candidates.

Far best is he who is himself all-wise, and he, too, good who listens to wise words; But whoso is not wise or lays to hear another's wisdom is a useless man.

Be wiser than other people if you can; but do not tell them so.

Now and then it is a joy to have one's table red with wine and roses.

O Lord Most-wise, strengthen us by Your power that we not fear the non-believing world neither when they lash us with whips nor when they insult us with words for Your sake.

Do not have as friends harmful people, the wise person does not associate with the worst of people. Have as friends virtuous people, the wise person associates with the best of people.

When I was young, I was extremely scared of dying. But now I think it a very, very wise arrangement. It's like a light that is extinguished. Not very much to make a fuss about

A wise neuter joins with neither, but uses both as his honest interest leads him.

When "Why not do it?" barely outweighs "Why do it?" — don't do it.

The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come.

The miracle is this: the more we share the more we have.

It is the fool who is haunted by fears, dread of dangers, oppression of mind, not the wise man.

Leadership is a group project, and all of us are necessary to fill it. Wise leaders will realize this and encourage their groups to develop their own evolving leadership potential.

Quietude, which some men cannot abide because it reveals their inward poverty, is as a palace of cedar to the wise, for along its hallowed courts the King in his beauty deigns to walk.

If you're going to go for 'it' you have a common thing you share with other artists; that's desperation. You jump out a window style-wise. Try to put it together before you hit the ground.

The world is as you are.

Now I got kids and I'm more wise now. Life means more to me than having fun. I'm more calm, more wise, and more cautious.

Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots.

Wow, that's a really good score. You must have worked really hard.

Cruel birds, ravens, but wise. And creatures should be loved for their wisdom if they cannot be loved for kindness.

Mistakes are the stepping stones to wisdom, we learn from trial & error, we become wise by understanding problems.

God bless our good and gracious King, Whose promise none relies on; Who never said a foolish thing, Nor ever did a wise one.

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

The wise man regulates his conduct by the theories both of religion and science. But he regards these theories not as statements of ultimate fact but as art-forms.

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

We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.

Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise... specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine.

If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.

Politics is like navigation in a sea without charts, and wise men live the lives of pilgrims.

Put your future in good hands. Your own.

Make men wise, and by that very operation you make them free. Civil liberty follows as a consequence of this; no usurped power can stand against the artillery of opinion.

A true friend sticks with you through thick and thin no matter what.

The wise learn many things from their enemies.

My Son, these maxims make a rule An lump them ay thegither: The Rigid Righteous is a fool, The Rigid Wise anither.

You want to run out in front, prepare to be tripped from behind.

The wise man seeks death all his life, and for this reason death is not terrifying to him.

I never was attached to that great sect, Whose doctrine is that each one should select Out of the crowd a mistress or a friend, And all the rest, though fair and wise, commend, To cold oblivion.

To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short.

Answer a fool according to his folly, Lest he be wise in his own eyes.

To the believers it is true. To the wise it is false. To the leaders it is useful.

A road to a friend's house is never long.

The desire to reach hearts is wise

Answers make you wise, but questions make you human.

One great difference between a wise man and a fool is, the former only wishes for what he may possibly obtain; the latter desires impossibilities.

A wise word is not a substitute for a piece of herring.

Willing is not enough, we must do.

Kindness can turn the bad man's heart, and fools convert to wise, Make poison into nectar-juice, and friends of enemies.

All the great religions contain wise prescriptions relating to the conduct of life, which hold good now as they did when they were promulgated.

A word to the wise is -- unnecessary.