Wise Quotes
Keep alive within you and bring under wise control that courage which makes you long to undertake great works, which others might consider it folly to attempt.
Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise.
We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.
Conservation means the wise use of the earth and its resources for the lasting good of men
A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe, and leaves before she is left.
Don't waste a minute not being happy. If one window closes, run to the next window- or break down a door.
Even more than the time when she gave birth, a mother feels her greatest joy when she hears others refer to her son as a wise learned one.
True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance.
If the majority doesn't laugh at you, beware that you must be saying something wrong. When the majority thinks you are a fool, only then is there some possibility of you being a wise man.
Many words are not proof of the wise man, because the sage only talk when it's needed, and the words are measured and corresponding with the need.
Forget the past, for it is gone from your domain! forget the future, for it is beyond your reach! control the present! Live supremely well now! This is the way of the wise.
Risk more than others think is safe. Care more than others think is wise. Dream more than others think is practical. Expect more than others think is possible.
Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.
What could be more beautiful than a dear old lady growing wise with age? Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it.
Dogs are wise. They crawl away into a quiet corner and lick their wounds and do not rejoin the world until they are whole once more.
States have always needed intellectuals to con the public into believing that its rule is wise, good, and inevitable
You look like an angel, walk like an angel, talk like an angel. But I got wise, you're the devil in disguise.
If farming were to be organised like the stock market, a farmer would sell his farm in the morning when it was raining, only to buy it back in the afternoon when the sun came out.
Chinese are wise in comprehending without many words what is inevitable and inescapable and therefore only to be borne.
Many are the strange chances of the world, and help oft shall come from the hands of the weak when the Wise falter.
Nor less I deem that there are Powers Which of themselves our minds impress; That we can feed this mind of ours In a wise passiveness
The hues of the opal, the light of the diamond, are not to be seen if the eye is too near.
The truly good and wise man will bear all kinds of fortune in a seemly way, and will always act in the noblest manner that the circumstances allow.
If it was wise, manly, and patriotic for us to establish a free government, it is equally wise to attend to the necessary means of its preservation.
If you don't have a vision for the future, then your future is threatened to be a repeat of the past.
Music has the capacity to touch the innermost reaches of the soul and music gives flight to the imagination.