The Wise Quotes

Suppose that men kill thee, cut thee in pieces, curse thee, what can these things do to prevent thy mind from remaining pure, wise, sober, just?

As irrigators lead water where they want, as archers make their arrows straight, as carpenters carve wood, the wise shape their minds.

An original is a creation motivated by desire.

Festination may prove Precipitation; Deliberating delay may be wise cunctation.

There's a strange something, which without a brain Fools feel, and which e'en wise men can't explain, Planted in man, to bind him to that earth, In dearest ties, from whence he drew his birth.

They only are wise who know that they know nothing.

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.

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

Look before you leap.

Not to care for philosophy is to be a true philospher.

"Do you like him much?" "I told you I liked him a little. Where is the use of caring for him so very much: he is full of faults." "Is he?" "All boys are." "More than girls?" "Very likely."

A wise man will live as much within his wit as within his income.

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

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

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.

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.

A wise man can be a fool in love.

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

Aloneness is a wise teacher. Kierkegaard remarked that one sign of spiritual maturity was the ability to be comfortable when alone.

I always have a sense of where I want to end each season, emotionally and relationship wise and with the theme, and I'm always able to hit that.

Never met a wise man, if so its a woman.

Wisdom eludes me yet, but foolishness I captured long ago and to this day it is my constant companion, though many people consider me wise.

Health-wise, I couldn't have said what my life expectancy would've been if I'd just carried on doing solid blocks of stand-up.

I was once told by someone wise that writing is perilous as you cannot always guarantee your words will be read in the spirit in which they were written.

Opportunity seldom come along and knock you on the Head.

You could think of mindfulness as wise and affectionate attention.

God's deepest secrets often miss the wise and prudent and are revealed unto babes. We say, "Children, be like your parents." Jesus said, "Parents, be like your children."

He thought her beautiful, believed her impeccably wise; dreamed of her, wrote poems to her, which, ignoring the subject, she corrected in red ink.

Some wisdom you must learn from one who's wise

In all I wish, how happy should I be, Thou grand Deluder, were it not for thee? So weak thou art that fools thy power despise; And yet so strong, thou triumph'st o'er the wise.

Happiness is the best facelift.

Being in humaneness is good. If we select other goodness and thus are far apart from humaneness, how can we be the wise?

The wise man delights in water, the Good man delights in mountains. For the wise move; but the Good stay still. The wise are happy; but the good secure.

It is true that wealth won't make a man virtuous, but I notice there ain't anybody who wants to be poor just for the purpose of being good.

A man cannot learn to be wise any more than he can learn to be handsome.

The wise man contents himself with what he has, until such time as he invents something better.

The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.

A carpenter is known by his chips.

Let a man be ne'er so wise, he may be caught with sober lies.

Advertising. I'd definitely like to try that. In fact, it was a genuine second choice career-wise. I'd be good at selling stuff - I've got the gift of the gab.