Wise Quotes

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.

Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.

The wise does at once what the fool does at last.

Those who gave thee a body, furnished it with weakness; but He who gave thee Soul, armed thee with resolution. Employ it, and thou art wise; be wise and thou art happy.

You're a wise person if you can easily direct your attention to what ever needs it.

'Tis better to be fortunate than wise.

God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.

It is wise to persuade people to do things and make them think it was their own idea.

Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.

The truly generous is the truly wise, and he who loves not others lives unblest!

Some folks are wise and some are otherwise.

A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.

The highest point of philosophy is to be both wise and simple; this is the angelic life.

No wise man ever wished to be younger.

The good and the wise lead quiet lives.

The sexes were made for each other, and only in the wise and loving union of the two is the fullness of health and duty and happiness to be expected.

It's bad taste to be wise all the time, like being at a perpetual funeral.

Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.

The fool wanders, a wise man travels.

Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.

The way to get on in the world is to be neither more nor less wise, neither better nor worse than your neighbours.

But I think I have done right to save the vision in this way, even though I may die sooner because I did it; for I know the meaning of the vision is wise and beautiful and good; and you can see that I am only a pitiful old man after all.

Zeal is fit for wise men, but flourishes chiefly among fools.

The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.