The Wise Quotes

You must be wise, but not too wise.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

It is not wise to give something old and powerful something they care about. And I am very old.

Our history is every human history; a black and gory business, with more scoundrels than wise men at the lead, and more louts than both put together to cheer and follow.

Who will ever give counsel, if the counsel be judged by the event, and if it be not found wise, shall therefore be thought wicked?

To the disgrace of men it is seen that there are women both more wise to judge what evil is expected, and more constant to bear it when it happens.

Remember that in all miseries lamenting becomes fools, and action, wise folk.

Though the desire of fame be the last weakness Wise men put off.

The over curious are not over wise.

Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise." He planned his routine around waking up at 5 a.m. and asking himself "What good shall I do this day?

Youth might be wise; we suffer less from pains than pleasures.

It's important not to be afraid ego-wise to share your information.

The first Degree of Folly, is to conceit one's self wise; the second to profess it; the third to despise Counsel.

Thou hast a voice, great Mountain, to repeal. Large codes of fraud and woe; not understood by all, but which the wise, and great, and good interpret, or make felt, or deeply feel.

Who has deceived thee as oft as thyself.

The wise and the brave dares own that he was wrong.

I love tranquil solitude, And such society As is quiet, wise, and good; Between thee and me What difference? but thou dost possess The things I seek, not love them less.

What you would seem to be, be really.

Oh, that the wise from their bright minds would kindle Such lamps within the dome of this dim world That the pale name of priest might shrink and dwindle Into the Hell from which it first was furled.

Tonglen dissolves your solid sense of "I'm the wise person, I'm going to help this poor, unfortunate loser."

A child's death is really of less value than an adult's. I mean, what could you really accomplish in a year? Not much, and that's not even talking about, you know, pay-wise.

I think in a play it's wise to just sit back and watch other actors and be able to shape it from the audience.

A story should, to please, at least seem true, Be apropos, well told, concise, and new: And whenso'er it deviates from these rules, The wise will sleep, and leave applause to fools.

None of us was born knowing or wise; but men become wise by consideration, observation, experience.

Humor is hard, hard, hard. And if you fail with humor, you don't fail halfway. You drop the ball humor-wise and everyone notices.

A wise and clear-eyed book, Future Hype challenges the conventional wisdom about technological change and provides a fresh perspective on our so-called computer age.

Wisdom is knowledge applied. Head knowledge is useless on the battlefield. Knowledge stamped on the heartmmakes one wise

Thirty-nine was the best year of my life earnings-wise. I paid off my mortgage and felt a massive sense of achievement.

Only a human being would be able to assess whether candidates are capable, personality-wise, of sharing and disseminating that institutional knowledge to help other newer and younger workers.

My goal every time I make a record is just to make the funkiest, the best music I could possibly make, both lyrically, and music-wise.

The worst thing you can do is animate something, and then throw it out because it doesn't work, story wise.

I'm a health-food junkie, so all of my food is a splurge, money-wise!

The wise man is but a clever infant, spelling letters from a hieroglyphical prophetic book, the lexicon of which lies in eternity.

Patience helps us to view imperfections in others more generously to the end that we may learn to be more wise than they have been.