The Wise Quotes

Let's say 'Yes' to life and 'No' to death.

The wise man is seldom prudent.

Wise man also fears a weak enemy.

Search well and be wise, nor believe that self-willed pride will ever be better than good counsel.

It is little the sign of a wise or good man, to suffer temperance to be transgressed in order to purchase the repute of a generous entertainer.

When the human being sings he lends expression to the great wise ways in which the world was made.

It takes a wise man to handle a lie, a fool had better remain honest.

Good bones are important, so it is wise to go slowly and get your plan right before launching into a vital project.

The man who knows when not to act is wise. To my mind bravery if forethought.

A wise and good man will turn examples of all sorts to his own advantage. The good he will make his patterns, and strive to equal or excel them. The bad he will by all means avoid.

I found eternal peace in a Shinto shrine. I've been to Shinto shrines and God is everywhere. Christ is one of the ways! God is everywhere.

How are they defensively, attacking-wise?

Be interesting, be enthusiastic... and don't talk too much.

Only fools think they're wise; the rest of us just muddle through as we can.

The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve.

Think positively about yourself.... ask God who made you to keep on remaking you.

A good person will resist an evil system with his whole soul. Disobedience of the laws of an evil state is therefore a duty.

The common and continual mischiefs of the spirit of party are sufficient to make it the interest and duty of a wise people to discourage and restrain it.

He was wise enough to know that nothing ever happened on this globe, for good, at which some people did not have their fill of laughter in the outset

Only make decisions that support your self-image, self-esteem, and self-worth.

No teacher, preacher, parent, friend, or wise man can decide what's right for you.

The disadvantage of becoming wise is that you realize how foolish you've been.

Those who take up any subject with an open mind, willing to learn anything that will contribute to their advancement, comfort and happiness, are wise.

If you take a little time and watch forensics, and see what men, sick-minded men do ... I don't know whether it's wise for women to feed the sickness that's in the man.

I know as a critic I'm required to have a well-armored heart. I must be a cynical wise guy to show my great sophistication. No pushover, me.

Above all, I would not expect a wise race, at great expense, to set loose an army of self-replicating robots.

Kindness is more persuasive than force.

I have always found that Angels have the vanity to speak of themselves as the only wise.

The wise are wise only because they love.

He is as wise as a serpent and as innocent as a dove.

No hand can make the clock strike for me the hours that are passed.

A wise man will not communicate his differing thoughts to unprepared minds, or in a disorderly manner.

Nothing can confound a wise man more than laughter from a dunce.

Wise men say nothing in dangerous times

Man is born only as a potential. He can become a thorn for himself and for others, he can also become a flower for himself and for others.

A wise man can do no better than to turn from the churches and look up through the airy majesty of the wayside trees with exultation, with resignation, at the unconquerable uncomplicated sun.

Therefore, do not eat meat which will cause terror among people, because it hinders the truth of emancipation; not to eat meat? this is the mark of the wise.

If you are wise you won't be deceived by the innocent airs of those whom you have once found to be dangerous.

Always without desire we must be found, If its deep mystery we would sound; But if desire always within us be, Its outer fringe is all that we shall see.

For one word a man is often deemed to be wise, and for one word he is often deemed to be foolish. We should be careful indeed what we say.

It takes pride to be anxious – I am not wise enough to know how my life should go.

A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.

Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own: [I hate a sage who is not wise for himself]

As an irrigator guides water to his fields, as an archer aims an arrow, as a carpenter carves wood, the wise shape their lives.

Though one should live a hundred years without wisdom and control, yet better, indeed, is a single day's life of one who is wise and meditative.

No man was more foolish when he had not a pen in his hand, or more wise when he had

That's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over, lest you should think he never could recapture the first fine careless rapture!

The wise young man or wage earner of today invests his money in real estate.

It is easy to be wise on behalf of others than to be so for ourselves.

Sometimes love was not about winning, but about wise sacrifice and the realiability of friends like Arianne. Friendship, Roland realized, was its very own kind of love.