The Wise Quotes

It is not wise to meddle with D'Angelines in matters of love.

There is no folly like the folly of the wise.

Demeanor-wise, Reagan was a conservative, but a pragmatic conservative, and he found silver linings in things. He liked to be a mediator. He didn't like to have enemies around him.

It's a wise person who knows the difference between free speech and cheap talk.

[Deadpool] is definitely squirm-inducing. It's a pretty hard R, violence-wise. But cartoony, also. Maybe fast-forward through to torture scenes.

The learned man aims for more. But the wise man decreases. And then decreases again.

Fools make news, and wise men carry it.

Illness is merely the bitter, which a wise Providence mingles in the cup of life.

I think Aleppo is a disaster, humanitarian-wise.

Certainly it is no shame to a man that he should be as nice about his country as his sweetheart, yet it would not be wise to hold everyone an enemy who could not see her with our own enchanted eyes.

Making wise decisions requires more than incentives. It requires wisdom.

If the body can respond so decisively to music, it must in some sense be music.

A wise man has told us that "men are once for all so made that they prefer a rational world to believe in and live in."

The question of dying becomes a wise reminder. It cures us of our innocence of the future.

I would much rather have been merry than wise.

Oh, wise young judge.

Aristippus said that a wise man's country was the world.

I like to be challenged acting wise and I like to do things that I'm scared of.

I know content-wise I leave nothing to chance. I have no anxiety about what I'm going to do once I'm out on stage.

A wise man neither suffers himself to be governed, nor attempts to govern others.

An uniformity of weights and measures, arranged upon mathematical principles, would be a benefit to the whole commercial world, if it were wise enough to adopt such an expedient.

Yes, if the life and death of Socrates are those of a wise man, the life and death of Jesus are those of a god.

I'm more like my father, personality-wise. But my mom and I get alone really well, obviously, because my mom and my dad get along so well.

The wise men are ashamed, they are dismayed and taken: lo, they have rejected the word of the Lord; and what wisdom is in them?

In matters of conscience that is the best sense which every wise man takes in before he hath sullied his understanding with the designs of sophisters and interested persons.

I went to a public high school that had a very small graduating class of 156 students. I lived a relatively normal childhood until I turned probably around 16. Things started to take off career-wise.

I do have some Catholic stuff that is done from the perspective of an ignorant Catholic. But other than that, topic-wise, there's nothing really filthy.

More often than not, in order to find truth, a wise man must suffer the ravings of the insane. There is no undiscovered truth to be found in the minds of the reasonable and rational.

I don't have a great deal of stress job-wise in my life, and that feels good.

The wise are known by their actions; fame and immortality are ever their attendants.

I'd rather be funny than wise.

Who knows whence he comes, where he is, and whither he tends, he, and he alone, is wise.

Fools learn nothing from wise men, but wise men learn much from fools.

There is no mortal truly wise and restless at once; wisdom is the repose of minds.

Who can think wise or stupid things at all that were not thought already in the past.

He who is wise puts aside all claims which may dissipate his attention, and confining himself to one branch excels in that.

Public business must always be done by somebody. It will be done by somebody or other. If wise man decline, others will not; if honest man refuse it, others will not.

What Nature bids is good, is wise, and faultless we obey.

If you are wearing a bandana you better have something wise to say, because you are starting with a credibility deficit.

Death is a new office building filled with modern furniture, A wise thing, but which has no purpose for us.

When we stop interfering and are wise enough to let the psychophysiological connection work for us instead of against us, our minds rush as quickly as possible towards perfect health.

For me, shoe-wise, platforms give me the same height that I need, but they're not as taxing on my feet.

The story goes on in the sense that at a most basic level, the United States ignored, that is violated, the United Nations charter when it invaded Iraq in 2003. This is not wise policy.

There are so many different fifteens. And eighteens. And forty-twos, for that matter. Mature fifteens and young fifteens and wise fifteens and lost fifteens. And angry fifteens.

Before, you are wise; after, you are wise. In between you are otherwise.

The Bible is the book that makes fools of the wise of this world; it is only understood by the plain and simple hearted.

It is not, believe me, the act of a wise man to say, "I will live." To-morrow's life is too late; live to-day.

Epicurus was not at all interested in what we would call the problems of mass society, and he thought civic politics was just trouble and to be avoided by the wise.

A wise man heedeth all things, and in his own eyes is a fool.

Laugh, if thou art wise.