Wise Quotes

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.

A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.

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.

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.