Wise Quotes

I am shy to admit that I have followed the advice given all those years ago by a wise archbishop to a bewildered young man: that moments of unbelief 'don't matter,' that if you return to a practice of the faith, faith will return.

Sotomayor's vainglorious lecture bromide about herself as "a wise Latina" trumping white men is a vulgar embarrassment - a vestige of the bad old days of male-bashing feminism.

Life's Tragedy is that we get old to soon and wise too late.

He who is not just is severe, he who is not wise is sad.

Yet with great toil all that I can attain by long experience, and in learned schools, is for to know my knowledge is but vain, and those that think them wise, are greatest fools.

Wise men make more opportunities than they find.

He was a wise man who invented beer.

He knew I enjoyed the relationships of college basketball. All along, he was the wise one.

I became a Republican when a very wise young lady asked me how I could remain a Democrat when I didn't agree with what they stood for and did agree with what the Republicans supported.

It is wise for us to forget our troubles, there are always new ones to replace them.

If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.

The wise man knows how to run his life so that contemplation is Possible.

Wisdom is knowing when you can't be wise.

It takes a wise man to discover a wise man.

Politics, like theater, is one of those things where you've got to be wise enough to know when to leave.

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.

Unfortunately, I was not wise enough to listen to her advice, and hastily married. In a few weeks, I had occasion to repent of the step I had taken, as the report proved true - a report which I thought justified, and indeed required, our separation.

Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author?

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.

Perfect reason flees all extremity, and leads one to be wise with sobriety.

When it comes to Chinese food I have always operated under the policy that the less known about the preparation the better. A wise diner who is invited to visit the kitchen replies by saying, as politely as possible, that he has a pressing engagement elsewhere.

It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to.

So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.

A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.

I often feel like I have this spirit living inside of me, always dressing in like short mini skirts... but then I start to discover myself. So there are eight spirits, mischievous ones, sad ones, handsome ones, wise ones, and crazy ones.

Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

It was not until I had graduated from college that I made a professional commitment to it. Frankly, I didn't think it wise. I was my own interior parental force, and it's very difficult to justify a profession as a dancer.

Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.

Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital. The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket.

The man who can keep a secret may be wise, but he is not half as wise as the man with no secrets to keep.