The Wise Quotes
Anne laughed and sighed. She felt very old and mature and wise — which showed how young she was.
We are sorry to confess that biological hypotheses have not yet completely got out of the second phase, and that ghost of ‘vital force’ still haunts many wise heads.
But I already saw no great difference between the psyche and spirituality. To amass knowledge without becoming wise is not my idea of progress in therapy.
I'm from Denver, and there is really nothing acting-wise to do there except for theater. I did everything I could get my hands on until I was able to make it to L.A.
The wise man does not permit himself to set up even in his own mind any comparisons of his friends. His friendship is capable of going to extremes with many people, evoked as it is by many qualities.
The foolish undertake a trifling act, and soon desist, discouraged; wise men engage in mighty works, and persevere.
The wise are unaffected either by death or life. These are but faces of the same coin.
Search men's governing principles, and consider the wise, what they shun and what they cleave to.
It was observed of Elizabeth that she was weak herself, but chose wise counsellors; to which it was replied, that to choose wise counsellors was, in a prince, the highest wisdom.
A wise minister would rather preserve peace than gain a victory, because he knows that even the most successful war leaves nations generally more poor, always more profligate, than it found them.
It is a common observation that any fool can get money; but they are not wise that think so.
Time, the cradle of hope, but the grave of ambition, is the stern corrector of fools, but the salutary counselor of the wise, bringing all they dread to the one, and all they desire to the other.
There is no greater fool than the man who thinks himself wise; no one is wiser than he who suspects he is a fool.
I wondered at him, so wise and so foolish, to have lived with me all these months and not know that the worst storms break inside a man.
Fishing is a hard job. Fishing at night. Rain. Day, night. You have to be wise and smart. And quick.
What wise God would consign a man to Hell for ignorance, instead of teaching him better in the afterlife?
Wisdom is considered a sign of weakness by the powerful because a wise man can lead without power but only a powerful man can lead without wisdom.
I think Katy B encapsulates young London in a way I never could. She reps London harder than anyone song-wise since Lily Allen.
it is not wise to keep the fire going under a slander unless you can get some large advantage out of keeping it alive. Few slanders can stand the wear of silence.
To-morrow I will live, the fool does say; To-day itself's too late, the wise lived yesterday.
Well isn’t that one thing you’re all the more wise for? Age has taught you something. It seems to me that you know the big secret. That nobody knows what’s going on
The world is blessed most by men who do things, and not by those who merely talk about them. -James Oliver 'Tomorrow I will live,' the fool does say; tomorrow itself is late; the wise live yesterday.
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.
The Bible is the book that makes fools of the wise of this world; it is only understood by the plain and simple hearted.
there is an imbalance of power. It is an imbalance that is easy to exploit, but it is not a wise course. Where there is love, there is often also hate. They can exist side by side." - jace
Who is omnipotent or wise enough to decide each new standard of good taste? Or sensitivity?
Aphorisms have never seduced anybody, but they have fooled some into considering themselves worldly-wise.
All knowledge is interesting to a wise man, and the knowledge of nature is interesting to all men.
A wise man once asked me, "What is the sound of one hand clapping?" I thought for a minute, then I slapped him across the face. That got him off my back.
We must believe that He is able to do what He will, wise to do what is best, and good, according to His promise, to do what is best for us, if we love Him, and serve Him.
The wise who control their body, who control their tongue, the wise who control their mind, are indeed well controlled.
He in whom all this is destroyed, and taken out with the very root, he, when freed from hatred and wise, is called respectable.
When I'm at school in the city, I don't feel particularly worldly or wise. It's only when I come back home that I remember exactly why I left.
Fortune, to show us her power in all things, and to abate our presumption, seeing she could not make fools wise, has made them fortunate.