The Wise Quotes
The simplest definition of advertising, and one that will probably meet the test of critical examination, is that advertising is selling in print.
A prudent person profits from personal experience, a wise one from the experience of others.
Poetry is innocent, not wise. It does not learn from experience, because each poetic experience is unique.
It was wise enough to know itself, and brave enough to be itself, and wild enough to change itself while somehow staying altogether true.
The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.
I never think of myself as wise. I think of myself as possessing a critical intelligence which I intend to allow to operate.
Who said I was wise? I’m a professional bad example. You can learn a lot by watching me. Or listening to me. Either one.
When hungry, eat your rice; when tired, close your eyes. Fools may laugh at me, but wise men will know what I mean.
We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.
The stupid don't even understand something that happened long ago, the wise understand it before it develops.
Life is a pilgrimage. The wise man does not rest by the roadside inns. He marches direct to the illimitable domain of eternal bliss, his ultimate destination.
Legislation can neither be wise nor just which seeks the welfare of a single interest at the expense and to the injury of many and varied interests.
Wise women tuck Godly wisdom into the words they speak and even more into the words they choose not to speak.
Wise people prefer to benefit from constructive criticism rather than be ruined by false praise
I think when we don't know what to do it's wise to do nothing. Sit down quietly; quiet our hearts and minds and breathe deeply.
Just as a solid rock is not shaken by the storm, even so the wise are not affected by praise or blame.
The foolish reject what they see, not what they think; the wise reject what they think, not what they see.
God's designs regarding you, and His methods of bringing about these designs, are infinitely wise.
Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves.
Man is wise only while in search of wisdom; when he imagines he has attained it, he is a fool.
If we are going to be wise, spiritual people prepared to meet the crises of our age, we must be a studying, learning community that values the life of the mind
A wise person laughs and smiles through the eyes. . . . The smile and laughter through the eyes influence people tremendously. No energy leaks if you smile through the eyes.
The seven wise men of Greece, so famous for their wisdom all the world over, acquired all that fame, each of them, by a single sentence consisting of two or three words.
If the infinite had not desired man to be wise, he would not have bestowed upon him the faculty of knowing.
Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men?
One of the most untruthful things possible, you know, is a collection of facts, because they can be made to appear so many different ways.
Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.
If you don't know, ask. You will be a fool for the moment, but a wise man for the rest of your life.
