Wise Quotes

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.

A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circlue of our felicities.

Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the rest is in the hands of God.

No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.

It behoves thee to love God wisely; and that may thou not do but if thou be wise.

By now all rock bands are wise enough to be suspicious of music industry scum.

A word to the wise is infuriating.

Nothing would more contribute to make a man wise than to have always an enemy in his view.

The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.

In our friendships we have to be wise that we choose godly people to be our friends. Somebody might say, well does that mean that you should never have a lost person as your friend? No, I wouldn't say that. But you can't have the same intimacy with a lost person that you can with a godly person in whom the Holy Spirit is living.

The Supreme Court has ruled that they cannot have a nativity scene in Washington, D.C. This wasn't for any religious reasons. They couldn't find three wise men and a virgin.

Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.

A wise parent humors the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and advisor when his absolute rule shall cease.

The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored.

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

A wise person decides slowly but abides by these decisions.

Maybe politically it wasn't wise but when people have different view points I think the public has a right to hear it and the public has a right to make decisions based on those view points.

But Paul, in his preaching of the Gospel, is a debtor to deliver the word not to Barbarians only, but also to Greeks, and not only to the unwise, who would easily agree with him, but also to the wise.

To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.

I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable.

No man is great enough or wise enough for any of us to surrender our destiny to. The only way in which anyone can lead us is to restore to us the belief in our own guidance.

Mitch and I have known each other for such a long time, and we're both so pleased to be given this opportunity at this point in our lives to play characters that we've never really had a chance to play before. It's a great gift. Plus we're wise enough to appreciate it.