Wise Quotes

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.

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.

A silent man is easily reputed wise. A man who suffers none to see him in the common jostle and undress of life, easily gathers round him a mysterious veil of unknown sanctity, and men honor him for a saint. The unknown is always wonderful.

He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.

Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves.

To speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do is style.

Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise.

He who lives without folly isn't so wise as he thinks.

'Tis folly to be wise.

Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.

That which is not, shall never be; that which is, shall never cease to be. To the wise, these truths are self-evident.

Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others.

A wise man does not chatter with one whose mind is sick.

It's just a logical guess that they are very very wise to put someone from the old series in it, and if you had to choose, it would be a very difficult decision.

Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.

May none but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof.

People don't understand that all presidents, the minute they become president, get a knock at the door. And there's a man there saying, 'Let's talk about your funeral.' At the time I thought, God, that's a terrible thing. Later on, I thought it was pretty wise.

Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.