Wise Quotes

Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

I had a very wise mother. She always kept books that were my grade level in our house.

Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.

If I'm a commodity, it wouldn't be a wise idea to buy stock in me - although, in the long run, maybe I'm a slow growth investment.

A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests.

A wise man looks upon men as he does on horses; all their comparisons of title, wealth, and place, he consider but as harness.

A wise traveler never despises his own country.

The shallow consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise man sees in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws.

Women desire six things: They want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous, obedient to wife, and lively in bed.

The wise learn many things from their enemies.

Of the 25 songs we've recorded there were 24 that we wanted to have on an album. That wouldn't have worked. So when one of our wise managers suggested the idea of considering two different album, it cleared the way for us.

I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should appear like a fool but be wise.

In Greece wise men speak and fools decide.

A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future.

The Dalai Lama. He is a very wise man of great inner peace who believes that happiness is the purpose of our lives. Through his teachings and leadership, he continues to make this world a better place in which to live.

The wise man reads both books and life itself.

We pursued the wrong policies. George Bush is not on the ballot. Bill Clinton is not on the ballot. Mitt Romney is on the ballot, and Barack Obama is on the ballot. And Mitt Romney is proposing tax reform, regulatory reform, a wise budget strategy and trade. The president has proposed tax increases.

A beautiful woman delights the eye; a wise woman, the understanding; a pure one, the soul.

I'm not sure they understand everything about racing cars. I am not sure that this is wise.

It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods.

Be quick to learn and wise to know.

Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.

A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.

We never can tell how our lives may work to the account of the general good, and we are not wise enough to know if we have fulfilled our mission or not.

A fool can throw a stone in a pond that 100 wise men can not get out.

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

There is one safeguard known generally to the wise, which is an advantage and security to all, but especially to democracies as against despots - suspicion.

The monsters of our childhood do not fade away, neither are they ever wholly monstrous. But neither, in my experience, do we ever reach a plane of detachment regarding our parents, however wise and old we may become. To pretend otherwise is to cheat.

Luck can be assisted. It is not all chance with the wise.