Wise Quotes

The two big advantages I had at birth were to have been born wise and to have been born in poverty.

Every judgement of conscience, be it right or wrong, be it about things evil in themselves or morally indifferent, is obligatory, in such wise that he who acts against his conscience always sins.

It's not wise to violate rules until you know how to observe them.

Listening is such a simple act. It requires us to be present, and that takes practice, but we don't have to do anything else. We don't have to advise, or coach, or sound wise. We just have to be willing to sit there and listen.

Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.

Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.

It is wise to keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.

An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight... the truly wise person is colorblind.

This character in the film, these things that he says which sound like advice and wise things, they are very common for Orientals. It's all the tradition.

A word to the wise is not sufficient if it doesn't make sense.

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

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

He that is not handsome at 20, nor strong at 30, nor rich at 40, nor wise at 50, will never be handsome, strong, rich or wise.

I endeavor to be wise when I cannot be merry, easy when I cannot be glad, content with what cannot be mended and patient when there be no redress.

Everybody gets typecast in movies, but you have to make wise choices. I'd say around 90 percent of movie casting is about the way you look, so you have to fight that. If producers had their way, I'd only be in action films, but I'm interested in a more varied career than that.

It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.

I had grown up in a humanist atmosphere, and war to me was never anything but horror, mutilation and senseless destruction, and I knew that many great and wise people felt the same way about it.

It is never wise to try to appear to be more clever than you are. It is sometimes wise to appear slightly less so.

Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.

The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.

A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.

It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.

The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.

A wise man turns chance into good fortune.

That is a good question for you to ask, not a wise question for me to answer.

Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.

If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise.

Wise men argue causes; fools decide them.

Hip is the sophistication of the wise primitive in a giant jungle.

Wise anger is like fire from a flint: there is great ado to get it out; and when it does come, it is out again immediately.