Wise Quotes

It is better to be nothing than a follower of other painters. The wise man has said when one follows another one is always behind.

The wise man, knowing how to enjoy achieved results without having constantly to replace them with others, finds in them an attachment to life in the hour of difficulty.

The vow that binds too strictly snaps itself.

Those who cannot tell what they desire or expect, still sigh and struggle with indefinite thoughts and vast wishes.

Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the rest is in the hands of God.

For the wise man looks into space and he knows there is no limited dimensions.

Howard Zinn was magical as a teacher. Witty, irreverent, and wise, he loved what he was teaching and clearly wanted his students to love it, also.

It is only the enlightened ruler and the wise general who will use the highest intelligence of the army for the purposes of spying, and thereby they achieve great results.

There's a certain type of character that you can't help but come in contact with growing up and living in Brooklyn and Long Island. A certain mixture of moxie, heart, and a wise guy sense of humor.

Wise thinkers prevail everywhere.

How can a rational being be ennobled by any thing that is not obtained by its own exertions?

A wise traveler never despises his own country.

It was not curiosity that killed the goose who laid the golden egg, but an insatiable greed that devoured common sense.

The wisest of the wise may err.

Wise to resolve, and patient to perform.

You have grown abominably lazy, and you like gossip, and waste time on frivolous things, you are contented to be petted and admired by silly people, instead of being loved and respected by wise ones.

Your thief looks Exactly like the rest, or rather better; 'Tis only at the bar, and in the dungeon, That wise men know your felon by his features.

Friends never make assumptions about you. They never expect a reason to go out with you. In fact friends only expect you to be you.

He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser.

To be a Jew is to be strong with a strength that has outlived persecutions. It is to be wise against ignorance, honest against piracy, harmless against evil, kind against cruelty

Truth, like milk, arrives in the dark But even so, wise dogs don't bark. Only mongrels make it hard For the milkman to come up the yard.

Every day is conquerable by its hours, and every hour by its minutes.

Dare to be imperfect and one day there will tug at your sleeve a soulmate.

No man is wise enough to be another man's master. Each man's as good as the next -- if not a damn sight better.

It's always better to be wise than to be smart.

The wise are free from perplexities; the virtuous from anxiety; and the bold from fear.

It is wise not to seek a secret, and honest not to reveal one.

Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.

Through all of our various Christmas traditions, I hope that we are focused first upon the Lord Jesus Christ. Wise men still adore Him.

Political Science carries inseparably with it the study of piety, and that he who is not pious cannot be truly wise.

One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter.

Wise elders will likely be those individuals who stay both mentally and physically vital throughout life.

Everyone needs a spiritual guide: a minister, rabbi, counselor, wise friend, or therapist. My own wise friend is my dog.

For even the very wise cannot see all ends.

Not to converse with a man worthy of conversation is to waste the man. To converse with a man not worthy of conversation is to waste words. The wise waste neither men nor words.

Numerous are the academic professors, but rare are wise and noble teachers.

To-day, to-day, be wise, be wise.

What you fear most of all is - fear. Very wise.

Numberless arts appear foolish whose secret motives are most wise and weighty.

If a wise man behaves prudently, how can he be overcome by his enemies? Even a single man, by right action, can overcome a host of foes.

A wise prince must never take things easy in times of peace.

Anger is short-lived madness.

A wise judge may let mercy temper justice but may not let mercy undo it.

Mmm....she's doomed! You're doomed!! They're all doomed! Notice I didn't specify what kind of doom, so no matter what happens, I predicted it. How very WISE of me.

Things that are done, it is needless to speak about...things that are past, it is needless to blame.

It is not strength, but art, obtains the prize, And to be swift is less than to be wise.

The wise become as the unwise in the enchanted chambers of Power, whose lamps make every face the same colour.

In the wise words of Mahatma Gandhi: have a sense of humor.

The wise determine from the gravity of the case; the irritable, from sensibility to oppression; the high minded, from disdain and indignation at abusive power in unworthy hands.

We must have passed through life unobservantly, if we have never perceived that a man is very much himself what he thinks of others.