Wise Quotes

Wise are those who learn that the bottom line doesn't always have to be their top priority.

Where wise actions are the fruit of life, wise discourse is the pollination.

The wise man regulates his conduct by the theories both of religion and science. But he regards these theories not as statements of ultimate fact but as art-forms.

The conqueror is regarded with awe; the wise man commands our respect; but it is only the benevolent man that wins our affection.

At what point does CNN wise up and rein in 'Larry King Live' to save itself?

Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable.

The fool wonders, the wise man asks.

A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.

The dead keep their secrets, and in a while we shall be as wise as they - and as taciturn.

A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.

Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.

Beauty makes idiots sad and wise men merry.

Divide and rule, the politician cries; unite and lead, is watchword of the wise.

At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time.

One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.

Some wisdom you must learn from one who's wise.

Women are not so well united as to form an Insurrection. They are for the most part wise enough to love their Chains, and to discern how becomingly they fit.

The American people may not be the best-educated, but they're very wise at heart.

For if the mystery concealed of old is made manifest to the Apostles through the prophetic writings, and if the prophets, being wise men, understood what proceeded from their own mouths, then the prophets knew what was made manifest to the Apostles.

Cabbage: a familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head.

A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men.

The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.

Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise... specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine.

A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times.

The modern horror audience is wise to our tricks this lets it in on the gag.

A word to the wise is enough.

'How do you know so much about everything?' was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was 'By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.'

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.