The Wise Quotes

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.

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

Who has deceived thee as oft as thyself.

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.

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

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

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

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?

The over curious are not over wise.

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

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

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.

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?

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.

My body is very wise; it knows how to heal itself.

Many words have been granted me, and some are wise, and some are false, but only three are holy: "I will it!

Babies are thinking and attracting before they are speaking. Even though you are only months old in your physical body, you are a very old and wise Creator, focused in that baby's body.

Wise sayings are not only for ornament, but for action and business, having a point or edge, whereby knots in business are pierced and discovered.

You can get stuck in being wise. You can get stuck in having a developed will. It is very hard to get stuck in being happy. It is too lucid a state of mind.

The greatest wisdom often consist in ignorance.

The true teacher of love is the heart. The heart is very, very wise. It makes mistakes from time to time, but it has a wisdom all of its own.

Many would be wise if they did not think themselves wise.

We could go to monasteries. I could show you people who are very wise and they have great willpower, but they're not happy. They lack balance. They take it all too seriously.

Though old and wise, yet still advise.

Ah Fate, cannot a man Be wise without a beard? East, West, from Beer to Dan, Say, was it never heard That wisdom might in youth be gotten, Or wit be ripe before 't was rotten?

A word to the wise isn't as good as a word from the wise.

A very wise author once said that a writer writes for himself, and then publishes for money. I write for myself and publish just for the reader

My mother was a very wise and strong person.

Fools and wise men are equally harmless. It is the half-fools and half-wise that are dangerous.

Lord of the golden tongue and smiting eyes; Great out of season and untimely wise: A man whose virtue, genius, grandeur, worth, Wrought deadlier ill than ages can undo.

It is not possible to love and be wise.

It's the same struggle for each of us, and the same path out: the utterly simple, infinitely wise, ultimately defiant act of loving one thing and then another, loving our way back to life.

Quit smoking, and observe posted speed limits. This will improve your odds of getting old enough to be wise.

The first steps toward stewardship are awareness, appreciation, and the selfish desire to have the things around for our kids to see. Presumably the unselfish motives will follow as we wise up.

To imagine that God wants prayers and hymns of praise is to make him out to a sort of oriental potentate; while praying for favours is an attempt to get him to change his allegedly all-wise mind.

A wise man once said that any human being is capable of infinite achievement, so long as it’s not the work they’re supposed to be doing.

Wise people may say what they will, but one passion is never cured by another.

It is a pity that, commonly, more care is had--yea, and that among very wise men--to find out rather a cunning man for their horse than a cunning man for their children.

It is not wise to be wiser than is necessary. [Fr., Ce n'est pas etre sage D'etre plus sage qu'il ne le faut.]

Tis not in battles that from youth we train The Governor who must be wise and good, And temper with the sternness of the brain Thoughts motherly, and meek as womanhood.

You can be very wild and still be very wise

Men are never very wise and select in the exercise of a new power.

And he is oft the wisest manWho is not wise at all.

Wise words are like arrows flung at your forehead. What do you do? Why, you duck of course.

He that never thinks can never be wise.

Most people are grateful because they are happy. Wise people are happy because they're grateful.

Very few men are wise by their own council, or learned by their own teaching. For he that was only taught by himself, had a fool for a master.

Babylon, Learned and wise, hath perished utterly, Nor leaves her speech one word to aid the sigh That would lament her.

To avoid discord, never put two wise people in the same room.

People kill what they fear. They burned, and drowned, and hanged those they saw as witches, the devil's servants: the wise women and the cunning men, the unfortunate, the lost and the strange