The Wise Quotes

Well-makers lead the water (wherever they like) ; fletchers bend the arrow ; carpenters bend a log of wood ; wise people fashion themselves.

Wise men will apply their remedies to vices, not to names; to the causes of evil which are permanent, not the occasional organs by which they act, and the transitory modes in which they appear.

The wise person finds enemies more useful than the fool does friends .

The individual is foolish; the multitude, for the moment is foolish, when they act without deliberation; but the species is wise, and, when time is given to it, as a species it always acts right.

A wise God shrouds the future in obscure darkness.

Wise were the kings who never chose a friend till with full cups they had unmasked his soul, and seen the bottom of his deepest thoughts.

A wise God shrouds the future in obscure darkness. [Lat., Prudens futuri temporis exitum Caliginosa nocte premit deus.]

Fate is the friend of the good, the guide of the wise, the tyrant of the foolish, the enemy of the bad.

The wisest prophets make sure of the event first.

Walk lightly through life.

A wise man once said that next to losing its mother, there is nothing more healthy for a child than to lose its father.

The wise are balanced, and the foolish are extreme.

But I just know from experience that accent wise, even if you're an accent genius, crossing the Atlantic is the hardest thing in the world either way.

A still tongue keeps a wise head.

I became a Republican when a very wise young lady asked me how I could remain a Democrat when I didn't agree with what they stood for and did agree with what the Republicans supported.

Wise married women don't trouble themselves about infidelity in their husbands.

God has forgiven you; you'd be wise to do the same

None are too wise to be mistaken, but few are so wisely just as to acknowledge and correct their mistakes, and especially the mistakes of prejudice.

Look wise, say nothing, and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought.

Fears of the brave and follies of the wise.

The love of fame is a passion natural and universal, which no man, however high or mean, however wise or ignorant, was yet able to despise.

A word to the wise is sufficient

I think that we'd be very wise not to predict anything with Donald Trump.

All the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites or subparasites.

Economics is not brain surgery.

You cannot be anything if you want to be everything. But if you are content to be something, you may by analogy be many things.

From ignorance our comfort flows, the only wretched are the wise

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The wise man... if he would live at peace with others, he will bear and forbear.

A wise man can and should stand above his times, not so the poet, but he should be their apex.

There are errors which no wise man will treat with rudeness while there is a probability that they may be the refraction of some great truth still below the horizon.

He that has trained his children for heaven, rather than for earth- for God rather than for man- he is the parent who will be called wise at the last.

A warm blundering man does more for the world than a frigid wise man.

A wise man will always be a Christian, because the perfection of wisdom is to know where lies tranquillity of mind and how to attain it, which Christianity teaches.

Politics is a place of humble hopes and strangely modest requirements, where all are good who are not criminal and all are wise who are not ridiculously otherwise.

The abdomen, the chest, and the brain will forever be shut from the intrusion of the wise and humane surgeon.

If this nation is to be wise as well as strong, if we are to achieve our destiny, then we need more new ideas for more wise men reading more good books in more public libraries.

Tis well to be merry and wise, 'Tis well to be honest and true; It is best to be off with the old love, Before you are on with the new.

Histories are as perfect as the Historian is wise, and is gifted with an eye and a soul.

The wise may find in trifles light as atoms in the air, some useful lesson to enrich the mind.

Though through all his life a fool associates with a wise man, he yet understands not the Dharma, as the spoon, the flavor of soup.

It is wise to withhold one's heart and mind from men who think themselves superior.

Skepticism . . . is not intellectual only it is moral also, a chronic atrophy and disease of the whole soul.

God is an ever-present spirit guiding all that happens to a wise and holy end.

The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.

It is as wise to moderate our belief as our desires.

A wise man can be a fool in love.

If thy words are wise, they will not seem so to the foolish: if they are deep the shallow will not appreciate them. Think not highly of thyself, then, when thou art praised by many.

We actually try our best to be non-biased, but for me, that was the best movie ["Sicario"], filmmaking-wise and storytelling-wise, and connected to me the most. I thought it was great.

A wise man, therefore, proportions his belief to the evidence.