The Wise Quotes

If we are wise, we never leave school.

A bad reader soon puts to flight both wise men and fools.

Moderately wise each one should be, Not overwise, for a wise man's heart Is seldom glad (Norse Wisdom)

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

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.

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

It is too often seen, that the wiser men are about the things of this world, the less wise they are about the things of the next.

Kings live in Palaces, and Pigs in sties, And youth in Expectation. Youth is wise.

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

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

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.

Not one man in five cycles, who is wise, will expect appreciative recognition from his fellows, or any one of them.

As never before does the keeping of our economic machine in tune depend upon wise policies in the administrative side of the government.

It is wise to listen, not to me but to the Word, and to confess that all things are one.

Curse away! And let me tell thee, Beausant, a wise proverb The Arabs have,-"Curses are like young chickens, And still come home to roost."

It is wise to agree that all things are one.

I am afforded a bit of easy wonderment in relative comfort as to how humans have lasted so long. Climate- and geography-wise, the planet seems to have little use for us.

That alone is wise which is just; that alone is enduring which is right.

No accidents are so unlucky [bad] but that the wise may draw some advantage [good] from them.

Life is so short that it is not wise to take roundabout ways, nor can we spend much time in waiting.... We have not got half-way to dawn yet.

Who looks in the sun will see no light else; but also he will see no shadow. Our life revolves unceasingly, but the centre is ever the same, and the wise will regard only the seasons of the soul.

Count your age with friends but not with years.

'T is greatly wise to talk with our past hours, And ask them what report they bore to heaven.

The community has no bribe that will tempt a wise man.

The weak have remedies, the wise have joys; superior wisdom is superior bliss.

Be wise today; 'tis madness to defer. Next day the fatal precedent will plead; thus on, til wisdom is pushed our of life.

A dearth of words a woman need not fear; But 'tis a task indeed to learn to hear: In that the skill of conversation lies; That shows and makes you both polite and wise.

On every hand we observe a truly wise practice, in education, in morals, and in the arts of life, the embodied wisdom of many an ancient philosopher.

The wise are not so much wiser than others as respecters of their own wisdom.

Living is very serious, very real. It is also always a game. If we are wise, it is very real, very terrible, and very lovely, and a good deal of fun.

For the most part we stupidly confound one man with another. The dull distinguish only races or nations, or at most classes, but the wise man, individuals.

The life of a wise man is most of all extemporaneous, for he lives out of an eternity which includes all time.

I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born.

The wise person questions himself, the fool others.

The wise fools who sit in the high places of justice fail to see that in revolutionary times vital issues are settled not by statutes, decrees and authorities, but in spite if them.

No nation is wise enough to rule another.

To keep on trying in spite of disappointment and failure is the only way to keep young and brave. Failures become victories if they make us wise-hearted.

I no longer want to walk on worn soles.

Mo'Nique is so full of love. I've been describing her as the tree in 'Pocahontas.' She's so wise and loving. She is just everything.

None wise dares hopeless venture.

If all men saw the fair and wise the same men would not have debaters' double strife.

When a wise man chooses a sane basis for his arguments, it is no great task to speak well.

Had I succeeded well, I had been reckoned amongst the wise; our minds are so disposed to judge from the event.

It would be necessary that they should be already sages to love wisdom...

To become wise you have to want to experience certain experiences, and so to run into their open jaws. This is very dangerous, tobe sure; many a "wise man" has been eaten up in doing so.