Wise Quotes

Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance.

A fool is wise in his eyes.

A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.

I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.

It is a wise man who knows where courage ends and stupidity begins.

It is not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.

To speak and to speak well, are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.

We were young, we were merry, we were very, very wise, And the door stood open at our feast, When there passed us a woman with the West in her eyes, And a man with his back to the East.

We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.

Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.

A wise government knows how to enforce with temper, or to conciliate with dignity.

If you realize you aren't so wise today as you thought you were yesterday, you're wiser today.

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

A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart.

It is a wise father that knows his own child.

The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.

It is not wise to be wiser than is necessary.

There are peaks and valleys in anything and that is especially true for the music business. It is very inconsistent. But if you are wise, you can let those downs really bring you to another level of your personality.

He is not wise to me who is wise in words only, but he who is wise in deeds.

No mortal man, moreover is wise at all moments.

Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men.

It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.

The wise musicians are those who play what they can master.

It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.

We want a state wise in its contemplation - just in its actions - and moderate in the reach of government into our lives.

A wise man will live as much within his wit as within his income.

Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.

It's so funny that people specify that year because in a way it was the biggest battle for me health wise.

Begin, be bold and venture to be wise.

Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.