The Wise Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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.

Humility is the secret of the wise.

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

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.

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.

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

Let him be wise, or let me be blind; don't let me, she hoped concretely, don't let me know too surely what he thinks of me.

It's not really important to make skillful movies. I think expressing yourself really well, skill-wise, is not as important. I want it to be sort of raw and rough but new and fun to watch.

It comes back to the old question: How can the Bible be so wise in some places and so barbaric in others? And why should we put any faith in a book that includes such brutality?

I love it when the Bible gives Emily Post-like tips that are both wise and easy to follow.

Walking is the favorite sport of the good and wise.

We shall have to work like lions, keeping the ideal before us, without caring whether "the wise ones praise or blame us".

[The seers call him wise] whose every attempt is free, without any desire for gain, without any selfishness.

Listen to the silence... it has much to say.

Putting our heads in the sand is not a wise strategy.

In this sacred Dispensation conflict and contention are in no wise permitted.

It's an absolute myth that early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise. Of course it doesn't.

I suggest...that you develop early in life the habit of retiring and arising early. You remember the advice of Ben Franklin: "Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.

When facts speak, the wise man listens.

It's generally not wise to pick a fight with law enforcement in politics, especially when you're in the middle of a pretty significant scandal already.

No greater evil can a man endure Than a bad wife, nor find a greater good Than one both good and wise; and each man speaks As judging by the experience of his life.

There is no such thing as the old age of the wise.

The wise form right judgment of the present from what is past.

Those men that in their writings are most wise Own nothing but their blind, stupefied hearts.

It is wise to be sure, but otherwise to be too sure.

A wise man will keep his Suspicions muzzled, but he will keep them awake.

Men may be born free; they cannot be born wise; and it is the duty of the university to make the free wise.

Wise men and gods are on the strongest side.

The fool inherits, but the wise must get.

Those alone are wise who know how to love.

Be not with honor's gilded baits beguil'd, Nor think ambition wise, because 'tis brave; For though we like it, as a forward child, 'Tis so unsound, her cradle is the grave.

I learned a lot, investigative methodology - wise, from litigators - watching their process.

The aim of all spiritual practice is love.

I always see my wife as the clever one, as the wise one in the family.

We expect others to act rationally even though we are irrational.

To be brave in misfortune is to be worthy of manhood; to be wise in misfortune is to conquer fate.

I don't think it's wise to manufacture a painting, just for the sake of working... if the impulse isn't truly there, the painting will lack power.

A wise governor told me a long time ago, political capital you don't get more of by keeping it. You get it by using it.

Oh, this beast? It's...perspicacious loris. 'Perspicacious' meaning 'wise or canny'." "Get stuffed," Bovril said, then giggled. "And it insults people," Telsa said. "How peculiar.

O harmless Death! whom still the valiant brave, The wise expect, the sorrowful invite, And all the good embrace, who know the grave A short dark passage to eternal light.

If happiness in self-content is placed, The wise are wretched, and fools only blessed.

I am learning. I'm a slow learner. I repeat myself three times, relationship wise.

You are incredibly wise. (Kat) Only when it comes to other people. It’s easy to see how to fix their lives. It’s much harder to see the cracks in your own house. (Acheron)

If you are energy-efficient and water-wise at home, then take all your good habits abroad with you.

Truly even he errs that is wiser than the wise.

Fools give you reasons and wise men never try.

If you expect the wise man to be as angry as the baseness of crimes requires, then he must not only be angry but go insane.