The Wise Quotes

A wise politician will never grudge a genuflexion or a rapture if it is expected of him by prevalent opinion.

The earth is wise. It has given itself into the keeping of all, and all are therefore accountable.

The most colossal display of wise, inspiring, and humorous metaphors ever exhibited in one place.

Celestial spirit that doth roll; The heart's sepulchral stone away, Be this our resurrection day, The singing Easter of the soul - O gentle Master of the Wise, Teach us to say: "I will arise."

Wise is the man who contents himself with the spectacle of the world.

A wise, joyous bookit unfolds the knowledge and the beauty of the two lives it embraces-old wisdom and young discover, intertwining like vines.

Happy is the bride that the sun shines on.

Fashion, n. A despot whom the wise ridicule and obey.

NIRVANA- In the Buddhist religion, a state of pleasurable annihilation awarded to the wise, particularly to those wise enough to understand it.

Happiness doesn't come and go, what comes and goes is your attunement to happiness.

The wise know that foolish legislation is a rope of sand, which perishes in the twisting.

The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.

The wise skeptic does not teach doubt but how] to look for the permanent in the mutable and fleeting.

A moody child and wildly wise Pursued the game with joyful eyes, Which chose, like meteors, their way, And rived the dark with private ray.

Wise men read very sharply all of your private history in your look and gait and behavior.

To what a degree the same past can leave different marks - and especially admit of different interpretations.

The day is always his, who works in it with serenity and great aims.

Wise men are not wise at all hours, and will speak five times from their taste or their humor, to once from their reason.

Yes, I'm nervous. You'll find in time most people are. They simply learn better how to disguise it, and sometimes, if they're wise, how to use their anxiety to serve the public good.

Those who would administer wisely must, indeed, be wise, for one of the serious obstacles to the improvement of our race is indiscriminate charity.

Money cannot buy you happiness, and happiness cannot buy you money. That might be a wise crack, but I doubt it.

Oh, be wise, Thou! Instructed that true knowledge leads to love.

That is ever the difference between the wise and the unwise: the latter wonders at what is unusual; the wise man wonders at the usual.

No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.

For every problem, there exists a simple and elegant solution which is absolutely wrong.

He who has no mind to trade with the Devil should be so wise as to keep from his shop.

Give unto me, made lowly wise, The spirit of self-sacrifice; The confidence of reason give, And in the light of truth thy bondman let me live!

Speech was given to the ordinary sort of men, whereby to communicate their mind; but to wise men, whereby to conceal it.

What blockheads are those wise persons, who think it necessary that a child should comprehend everything it reads.

John Green is a very handsome, intelligent, and wise man. He smells really weird though.

We all suffer. If a man's wise, he learns from it.

Every man is wise when attacked by a mad dog; fewer when pursued by a mad woman; only the wisest survive when attacked by a mad notion.

I did exhibitions with the Surrealists (in Paris, in 1929) because their attitude revolted against 'art' and their attitude toward life itself was wise, as was Dada's.

What happens style wise behind closed doors, in your home, shouldn't be incidental. Home isn't just where you stow your things or sack out for the night. It should be your private escape.

And however dark the skies may appear, And however souls may blunder, I tell you it all will work out clear, For good lies over and under.

Well, yes: people write poems when they are in love, but a wise man will not print them.

I ask Thee for a thankful love, Through constant watching wise, To meet the glad with joyful smiles, And to wipe the weeping eyes, And a heart at leisure from itself, To soothe and sympathize.

You don't have to learn to be wise. If you just flow you can be successful. Mother Nature will carry you.

The French are wiser than they seem, and the Spaniards seem wiser than they are.

No one is wise at all times.

Titles are marks of honest men, and wise; The fool or knave that wears a title lies.

May I deem the wise man rich, and may I have such a portion of gold as none but a prudent man can either bear or employ.

The honor paid to a wise man is a great good for those who honor him.

If there is a good and wise God, then there also exists a progress of humanity toward perfection.

I do know of these That therefore only are reputed wise For saying nothing.

Herein is the evil of ignorance, that he who is neither good nor wise is nevertheless satisfied with himself: he had no desire for that of which he feels no want.

Whoever yields properly to Fate, is deemed Wise among men, and knows the laws of heaven.

God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.

Trial by jury is a wise distribution of power which exceeds all other modes of trial.

A sense of our own folly is a great step towards being wise, when it leads us to rely on the wisdom of the Lord.