Wise Quotes

It is easy to be wise on behalf of others than to be so for ourselves.

Always without desire we must be found, If its deep mystery we would sound; But if desire always within us be, Its outer fringe is all that we shall see.

For one word a man is often deemed to be wise, and for one word he is often deemed to be foolish. We should be careful indeed what we say.

It takes pride to be anxious – I am not wise enough to know how my life should go.

A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.

Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own: [I hate a sage who is not wise for himself]

As an irrigator guides water to his fields, as an archer aims an arrow, as a carpenter carves wood, the wise shape their lives.

If you are wise you won't be deceived by the innocent airs of those whom you have once found to be dangerous.

I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise.

Sometimes love was not about winning, but about wise sacrifice and the realiability of friends like Arianne. Friendship, Roland realized, was its very own kind of love.

Though one should live a hundred years without wisdom and control, yet better, indeed, is a single day's life of one who is wise and meditative.

The wise young man or wage earner of today invests his money in real estate.

That's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over, lest you should think he never could recapture the first fine careless rapture!

No man was more foolish when he had not a pen in his hand, or more wise when he had

As nothing is more easy than to think, so nothing is more difficult than to think well.

Toss your dashed hopes not into a trash bin but into a drawer where you are likely to rummage some bright morning.

My upbringing is why I am the person I am today. I have very wise parents.

To swear is neither brave, polite, nor wise.

The fathers who contrived and passed the Consititution were wise in their generation; as time passes, we come more and more to realize their powers of divination.

If thou desire to be held wise, be so wise as to hold thy tongue.

We have a choice every day — to act on yesterday's good intentions or get an early start on tomorrow's regrets.

It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to.

So often our greatest triumph is a willing surrender.

Experience makes more timid men than it does wise ones.

It's not a terrible thing that we feel fear when faced with the unknown. It is part of being alive, something we all share.

Profound hearts, wise minds, take life as God makes it; it is a long trial, and unintelligible preparation for the unknown destiny.

We may simply not be wise enough to do some of the kinds of engineering things that people are talking about doing.

Let fools the studious despise, There's nothing lost by being wise.

She hoped to be wise and reasonable in time; but alas! Alas! She must confess to herself that she was not wise yet.

The only question which any wise man can ask himself, and which any honest man will ask himself, is whether a doctrine is true or false.

Of neighborhoods, benevolence is the most beautiful. How can the man be considered wise who when he had the choice does not settle in benevolence.

A wise man does not waste so good a commodity as lying for naught.

I will give you a definition of a proud man: he is a man who has neither vanity nor wisdom one filled with hatreds cannot be vain, neither can he be wise.

A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests.

Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.

He who is not just is severe, he who is not wise is sad.

Every man must have a peaceful place to contemplate. If you do not have such a place, you must find one!

Wisdom is knowing when you can't be wise.

Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance.

It is not enough that your designs, nay that your actions, are intrinsically good, you must take care they shall appear so.

The mobilisation which Bush has been able to perform since 11 September 2001 has to be fought - at least by Americans - in the name of a wise, honourable and democratic patriotism.

People can do all kinds of things that maybe aren't wise in hindsight because of jealousy.

I am not sure if women are attracted to genius. Can you imagine the wise wizard winning the woman over the gallant swordsman? It seems rather otherworldly in more ways than one.

In this world only the paranoid survive.

I have tried to be a man of letters in love with ideas in order to be a wiser and more loving person, hoping to leave the world just a little better than I found it.

If somebody is not on the same page with me humor wise, I can't give them that.

Truth exists for the wise, beauty for the feeling heart.

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations.

And then something invisible snapped insider her, and that which had come together commenced to fall apart.

To be wise is to be eternally curious.