Wise Quotes

And, hey, I'm not under the illusion that everything's just going to be hunky-dory work wise forever. I've never been under that illusion. Things could go away tomorrow.

Call him wise whose actions, words, and steps are all a clear because to a clear why.

For this is the mark of a wise and upright man, not to rail against the gods in misfortune.

Your fans, they count on you to make wise decisions and wise choices. That's why they're your fan base. If you continually let them down, they're going to go find someone else to be fans of.

Controversy equalizes fools and wise men - and the fools know it.

I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had.

It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents.

You have this idea that you'd better keep working otherwise people will forget. And that was dangerous.

I didn't lead a very wise life, myself, but it was a full one and a grown-up one. You come of age very quickly through shipwreck and disaster.

To withdraw is not to run away, and to stay is no wise action, when there's more reason to fear than to hope.

There has never been any country at every moment so virtuous and so wise that it has not sometimes needed to be saved from itself.

No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.

Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible.

The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love.

The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.

Clever people master life; the wise illuminate it and create fresh difficulties.

Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.

A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn.

We must first pray, that God would make us wise; before we can wish, he would make us happy.

The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool.

Your dear baby has died innocent and blameless, and has been called away by an all wise and merciful Creator, most probably from a life to misery and misfortune, and most certainly to one of happiness and bliss.

The one knowing what is profitable, and not the man knowing many things, is wise.

Man is wise and constantly in quest of more wisdom; but the ultimate wisdom, which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls forth faith rather than reason.

Who then is free? The wise man who can command himself.

Conservation means the wise use of the earth and its resources for the lasting good of men.

The only competition worthy of a wise man is with himself.

You ask: what is the meaning or purpose of life? I can only answer with another question: do you think we are wise enough to read God's mind?

The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.

Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.