Wise Quotes

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.

Men become wise just as they become rich, more by what they save than by what they receive.

No man was ever wise by chance.

Speech was given to the ordinary sort or men, whereby to communicate their mind; but to wise men, whereby to conceal it.

Wise it is to comprehend the whole.

It is wise to direct your anger towards problems - not people; to focus your energies on answers - not excuses.

I'd like to be wise. You have to go through a lot to get there, but I'm willing to go through a lot.

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.

I'm not trying to sound like I turned into some kind of wise man, but it's nice to realize that your little pocket of the world isn't the whole world.

I'm not very wise to many things.

If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.

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.

What could be more beautiful than a dear old lady growing wise with age? Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it.

Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.

Nothing wise was ever printed upon an apron.

There was no division I could see between the essential teaching of all Prophets and wise men of religion.

It is a wise man that does know the contented man is never poor, whilst the discontented man is never rich.

We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.

In their work, then, as in their play, men and women are more and more coming to share with each other as comrades, and really the fun of life seems in no wise diminished as a consequence.