Wise Quotes

You are wise, witty and wonderful, but you spend too much time reading this sort of stuff.

Business wise, I have always learned valuable lessons so I don't regret any decisions I have made.

It is a good rule never to see or talk to the man whose words have wrung your heart, or helped it, just as it is wise not to look down too closely at the luminous glow which sometimes shines on your path on a summer night, if you would not see the ugly worm below.

No man is wise enough by himself.

A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circlue of our felicities.

Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the rest is in the hands of God.

No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.

It behoves thee to love God wisely; and that may thou not do but if thou be wise.

By now all rock bands are wise enough to be suspicious of music industry scum.

A word to the wise is infuriating.

Search well and be wise, nor believe that self-willed pride will ever be better than good counsel.

Christmas in Bethlehem. The ancient dream: a cold, clear night made brilliant by a glorious star, the smell of incense, shepherds and wise men falling to their knees in adoration of the sweet baby, the incarnation of perfect love.

A fool's paradise is a wise man's hell!

I find that it isn't wise to attempt to judge people on their public persona, and even on the music they make. Because I've met so many people whose music I cannot stand, and they're very nice. At the same time, I've met people whose music I've loved, and they're not the person you've invested all this emotion in.

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

The ant is knowing and wise, but he doesn't know enough to take a vacation.

I wish I had the ability to crack wise, generally. You know, without getting punched. There's no way I could do it while getting beaten up. Definitely.

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

A wise woman recognizes when her life is out of balance and summons the courage to act to correct it, she knows the meaning of true generosity, happiness is the reward for a life lived in harmony, with a courage and grace.

To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution.

The weak have remedies, the wise have joys; superior wisdom is superior bliss.

There is no one thoroughly despicable. We cannot descend much lower than an idiot; and an idiot has some advantages over a wise man.

Mitch and I have known each other for such a long time, and we're both so pleased to be given this opportunity at this point in our lives to play characters that we've never really had a chance to play before. It's a great gift. Plus we're wise enough to appreciate it.

He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself at twenty.

A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.

Legislation can neither be wise nor just which seeks the welfare of a single interest at the expense and to the injury of many and varied interests.

Study how water flows in a valley stream, smoothly and freely between the rocks. Also learn from holy books and wise people. Everything - even mountains, rivers, plants and trees - should be your teacher.

The wisest of the wise may err.

Nothing is as dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is to be preferred.

Since, therefore, no man is born without faults, and he is esteemed the best whose errors are the least, let the wise man consider everything human as connected with himself; for in worldly affairs there is no perfect happiness under heaven.