Wise Quotes

I didn't lead a very wise life, myself, but it was a full one and a grown-up one. You come of age very quickly through shipwreck and disaster.

To withdraw is not to run away, and to stay is no wise action, when there's more reason to fear than to hope.

There has never been any country at every moment so virtuous and so wise that it has not sometimes needed to be saved from itself.

No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.

Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible.

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations.

Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way.

It is best for the wise man not to seem wise.

It can't possibly last for years and browsing has its limits. Only a certain amount is healthy or wise.

Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away.

For humble individuals like myself, there is one poor comfort, which is this, viz. that gout, unlike any other disease, kills more rich men than poor, more wise men than simple.

Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.

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.

You ask: what is the meaning or purpose of life? I can only answer with another question: do you think we are wise enough to read God's mind?

The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.

It is often wise to reveal that which cannot be concealed for long.

Teach a child what is wise, that is morality. Teach him what is wise and beautiful, that is religion!

The wise man is he who knows the relative value of things.

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.