The Wise Quotes

During the 2008 election, I made clear to the Obama campaign that I don't think it's wise for me to force my personal political agenda on anyone.

Be wise to-day; 't is madness to defer.

Hope is a dangerous thing, Raisa thought. Once kindled, it's hard to put out. It makes wise people into fools.

My mother went to university, my father didn't. But they are very educated, very wise people. My father went to the military, so he's worldly.

Holy, fair, and wise is she; The heaven such grace did lend her, That she might admired be.

Wise people say it is folly to think anybody perfect; and as to likes and dislikes, we should be friendly to all, and worship none

Who is Silvia What is she, That all our swains commend her Holy, fair, and wise is she.

A poet's soul must contain the perfect shape of all things good, wise and just. His body must be spotless and without blemish, his life pure, his thoughts high, his studies intense.

It's weird - sort of not terribly wise - to take a book that was successful and then change its cover.

Love is your master, for he masters you; And he that is so yoked by a fool Methinks should not be chronicled for wise.

The Foole doth thinke he is wise, but the wiseman knowes himselfe to be a Foole.

But will he come I just want to know what you think the odds are. Tell me what you really think." "I think Tibby was a wise girl. I think she loved you.

It's just a logical guess that they are very very wise to put someone from the old series in it, and if you had to choose, it would be a very difficult decision.

I also like different records of mine for creative purposes and metaphorically wise.

Potency does not mean being unnecessarily aggressive; one has to be wise.

There is an old and very wise Native American saying: Every time you point a finger in scorn—there are three remaining fingers pointing right back at you.

Peron had a wise saying. In politics, you can recover from anything except looking like a fool.

One woman is fair, yet I am well; another is wise, yet I am well; another virtuous, yet I am well; but till all graces be in one woman, one woman shall not come in my grace.

You must be wise, but not too wise.

True wisdom knows it must comprise some nonsense as a compromise, lest fools should fail to find it wise.

Of all knowledge the wise and good seek most to know themselves.

To fear death, gentlemen, is no other then to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know.

If you want to do something, do it!

No mortal man, moreover is wise at all moments.

Thou art as wise as thou art beautiful

It is certain that either wise bearing or ignorant carriage is caught as men take diseases, one of another.

For to err in opinion, though it be not the part of wise men, is at least human.

When Eudæmonidas heard a philosopher arguing that only a wise man can be a good general, "This is a wonderful speech," said he; "but he that saith it never heard the sound of trumpets.

In an old time there was a king as wise as a dictionary.

We prize books, and they prize them most who are themselves wise.

I am sure of this, that by going much alone a man will get more of a noble courage in thought and word than from all the wisdom that is in books.

Let us be poised, and wise, and our own, today. Let us treat men and women well; treat them as if they were real; perhaps they are.

We do not read to pass the time, but to inhabit time.

Humility is the secret of the wise.

When a king begins to act like a king, it is not long before someone else is king! Serving is a way we can place value on one another. A wise man is a server.

A wise writer will feel that the ends of study and composition are best answered by announcing undiscovered regions of thought, and so communicating, through hope, new activity to the torpid spirit.

Working from home is so, so hard because I want to be present for them and yet there's so much to do work-wise. That's the biggest challenge for me.

To educate the wise man, the State exists; and with the appearance of the wise man, the State expires. The appearance of charactermakes the state unnecessary. The wise man is the State.

All places that the eye of heaven visits Are to a wise man ports and happy havens. Teach thy necessity to reason thus; There is no virtue like necessity.

The wise man, the true friend, the finished character, we seek everywhere, and only find in fragments.

Life is a festival only to the wise. Seen from the nook and chimneyside of prudence, it wears a ragged and dangerous front.

The foolish man wonders at the unusual, but the wise man at the usual.

So all that is said of the wise man by Stoic or Oriental or modern essayist, describes to each reader his own idea, describes his unattained but attainable self.

Fools are more healthy then the so-called wise. Thy live in the moment and they know that thy are fools, so thy are not worried about what others think about them.

I think people are wise to keep love and work separate.

Usually my characters, though young, tend to be street-wise.

If the subject's easy we may all be wise; What stands unfirm, the smallest force overthrows.

The world has been made by fools that wise men may live in it.

There are men steady and wise whose body, words and mind are self-controlled. They are the men of supreme self-control.

He bids fair to grow wise who has discovered that he is not so.