Wise Quotes

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.

The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.

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

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.

A vain man finds it wise to speak good or ill of himself; a modest man does not talk of himself.

Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.

There is only a finger's difference between a wise man and a fool.

They would need to be already wise, in order to love wisdom.

You just try to absorb as much as you can from someone who has won as many races and championships as he has. Career wise, he's been the greatest thing that's happened to me.

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.

In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool.

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.