Wise Quotes

He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship.

Life is a pilgrimage. The wise man does not rest by the roadside inns. He marches direct to the illimitable domain of eternal bliss, his ultimate destination.

They're mutually incompatible I feel; being a wise thief and a wise father.

Every man is wise when attacked by a mad dog; fewer when pursued by a mad woman; only the wisest survive when attacked by a mad notion.

Today, certain people file for bankruptcy, businesses and individuals, and it no longer has the stigma it once had. Now it's almost considered wise, a way to regroup and come back again.

I am content with nothing, restless and ambitious... and I despise myself for the vanity, which formed half the stimulus to my exertions. Oh would that I were one of those plodding wise fools who having once set their hand to the plough go on nothing doubting.

How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!

Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.

The wise man... if he would live at peace with others, he will bear and forbear.

That was my choice at that time, and I still say Nixon was a great president. A very beautiful and wise man.

Currently, I'm working with a company called DRL Promotions with my partners Dan Wise and Luis De Cubas. We're currently representing over 30 fighters.

Ask a woman's advice, and whatever she advises, Do the very reverse and you're sure to be wise.

The residence of the Plymouth settlers in the Netherlands, and the later conquest of the Dutch colonies, had brought the Americans into contact with the singularly wise and free institutions of the Dutch.

It is not government's job to mandate responsibility on our behalf. We have the intelligence and good sense to make wise consumption choices for ourselves and our children. It is up to us to do what is best for our health and our children's health.

Wise thinkers prevail everywhere.

The skilful employer of men will employ the wise man, the brave man, the covetous man, and the stupid man.

A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win.

I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born.

The wise are above books.

Don't follow any advice, no matter how good, until you feel as deeply in your spirit as you think in your mind that the counsel is wise.

Great deeds give choice of many tales. Choose a slight tale, enrich it large, and then let wise men listen.

As a vessel is known by the sound, whether it be cracked or not; so men are proved, by their speeches, whether they be wise or foolish.

Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?

One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter.

If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.

The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself a fool.

Some of the wise boys who say my music is loud, blatant and that's all should see the faces of the kids who have driven a hundred miles through the snow to see the band... to stand in front of the bandstand in an ecstasy all their own.

Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action.

A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant.