The Wise Quotes

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 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.

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

What would you be like if you had white hair and had not given up your principles? It might be wise as you deal with coalition efforts to think about the possibilities of going for fifty years.

A wise man who was always helpful to me: Mr (Enzo) Ferrari. He always supported me.

A surgeon is surrounded by people who are sick, discouraged, afraid, embittered, dying - but also courageous, loving, wise, compassionate and alive.

He loved her beyond all reason and didn't expect her to love him back. He was just waiting for her to wise up.

No rules, however wise, are a substitute for affection and tact.

The wise man thinks about his troubles only when there is some purpose in doing so; at other times he thinks about other things, or, if it is night, about nothing at all.

The wise use of leisure, it must be conceded, is a product of civilization and education.

The wise man will be as happy as circumstances permit, and if he finds the contemplation of the universe painful beyond a point, he will contemplate something else instead.

You bring the color and the life. It's a lucky man who is offered that color and life, and a wise one who values it.

You are wise as well as short." "I can also break bricks with my bare hands." "That's a handy skill if you ever find yourself walled up in the basement of an abandoned house by a psychopath.

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.

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.

I will be a wise and tolerant monarch, dispencing justice fairly, and only setting nightmares to rip out the winds of the evil and the wicked. Or just anybody that I don't like.

The wise man knows when to keep silent. Only the fool tells all he knows.

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.

Wine lead to folly, making even the wise to laugh immoderately, to dance, and to utter what had better have been kept silent.

Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking.

The grand instructor, time.

Once sent out, a word takes wings beyond recall.

The esteem of wise and good men is the greatest of all temporal encouragements to virtue; and it is a mark of an abandoned spirit to have no regard to it.

It's catastrophies which turn wise and strong people into philosophers.

...he'll never lie - the man is far too wise.

To be wise and eke to love, Is granted scarce to gods above.

If you have been wise and successful I congratulate you. Unless you are unable to forget how successful you have been, then I pity you.

Of themselves diseases come upon men continually by day and by night, bringing mischief to mortals silently; for wise Zeus took away speech from them. So is there no way to escape the will of Zeus

Thank God, men that art greatly guilty are never wise.