The Wise Quotes

If by leaving a small pleasure one sees a great pleasure, let a wise man leave the small pleasure, and look to the great.

Our target market is recreational bettors, but that doesn't mean we expel the wise guys. A big bet for us is maybe $10,000.

Sotomayor's vainglorious lecture bromide about herself as 'a wise Latina' trumping white men is a vulgar embarrassment - a vestige of the bad old days of male-bashing feminism.

Remember, you cannot be both young and wise. Young people who pretend to be wise to the ways of the world are mostly just cynics.

We can hardly escape the feeling that the unconscious process moves spiral-wise round a centre, gradually getting closer, while the characteristics of the centre grow more and more distinct.

Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

When the world lacks muscular and wise American leadership, it devolves into total chaos, which, in turn, produces unspeakable evils.

A wise woman knows how to summon her courage and do what is right, rather than what is easy.

The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense.

A wise person is like a smoothly polished rock: it takes time to become either.

A wise saying is something you keep picking up off the floor in front of your fridge

Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

A fool marvels at rare things, but a wise man at common ones.

Libraries have always been humanities' way of preserving its collective wisdom

He Who Knows And Knows That He Knows Is A Wise Man - Follow Him; He Who Knows Not And Knows Not That He Knows Not Is A Fool - Shun Him

It is a wise man that does know the contented man is never poor, whilst the discontented man is never rich.

All wrong-doing arises because of mind. If mind is transformed can wrong-doing remain?

A winner listens, a loser just waits until it is their turn to talk.

Success and suffering will either darken your heart or make you wise, but they won't leave you where you were.

A wise man sings his joy in the closet of his heart.

Let the wise guard their thoughts, which are difficult to perceive, extremely subtle, and wander at will. Thought which is well guarded is the bearer of happiness.

I love that period, between the '20s and the '60s. I love doing period pieces, and those eras are my favorite period in time, music wise, and the elegance and the way of being.

People don't buy from clowns.

The peculiar circumstances of the moment may render a measure more or less wise, but cannot render it more or less constitutional.

The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better.

I'm extremely happy about music altogether, and the history that I've made. How I changed the world, music-wise, music over the internet and stuff like that.

Empty vessels make the most sound.

And just then he realized in a flash that men have only this sad knowledge with which to heal themselves: when you lose life, you grow wise. But that is better than maiming life to hold it.

Hit the nail on the head.

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

True consistency, that of the prudent and the wise, is to act in conformity with circumstances, and not to act always the same way under a change of circumstances.

Meat is not agreeable to the wise: it has a nauseating odor, it causes a bad reputation, it is food for the carnivorous; I say this, Mahamati, it is not to be eaten.

Look at people in your life as “practice.” The way you react to them allows you to see what you have to work on within yourself.

We spend precious hours fearing the inevitable. It would be wise to use that time adoring our families, cherishing our friends and living our lives.

Lots of old people don't become wise, but you don't get wise unless you age.

That's a wise substitution by Terry Venables: three fresh man, three fresh legs.

A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future.

It is the habit of mediocre minds to condemn all that is beyond their grasp.

Silence is an answer to a wise man.

The wise want love; and those who love want wisdom.

The man who is completely wise and virtuous has no need of glory, except so far as it disposes and eases his way to action by the greater trust that it procures him.

Wise Man: One who sees the storm coming before the clouds appear.

Blessed if you do... Blessed if you don't... Blessed no matter what!

It is foolish to try to imitate the skills of others.

He is truly wise who gains wisdom from another's mishap.

The magi, as you know, were wise men wonderfully wise men who brought gifts to the Babe in the manger. They invented the art of giving Christmas presents.

I'm not strong-willed enough or unkind enough... or maybe simply not wise enough to tell a journalist that a subject is out of bounds.

To appreciate nonsense you must first acquire wisdom, then compromise the two; only then will the fool understand you, and believe himself to be wise.

A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win.

We deny that it is fun to be saving. It is fun to be prodigal. Go to the butterfly, thou parsimonious sluggard; consider her ways and get wise.