Wise Quotes

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.

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.

I'm not wise, but the beginning of wisdom is there; it's like relaxing into - and an acceptance of - things.

A wise woman puts a grain of sugar into everything she says to a man, and takes a grain of salt with everything he says to her.

But I just know from experience that accent wise, even if you're an accent genius, crossing the Atlantic is the hardest thing in the world either way.

A very wise author once said that a writer writes for himself, and then publishes for money. I write for myself and publish just for the reader.

Tell me I'm clever, Tell me I'm kind, Tell me I'm talented, Tell me I'm cute, Tell me I'm sensitive, Graceful and wise, Tell me I'm perfect - But tell me the truth.

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.