Wise Quotes

• In examinations the foolish ask questions that the wise cannot answer.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Questions
  • Answer
  • Foolish

• True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The greatest blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Life
  • Men
  • Wish

• Originally I was supposed to do Grand Prix, but I was under contract to 20th Century Fox at that time and Alex North was supposed to do Sand Pebbles, but he got sick, so Fox preempted me out of Grand Prix, and to my good fortune, I got to do Sand Pebbles. It was my first time working with Robert Wise and it was a great experience.

  

  Jerry Goldsmith
  • Time
  • Good
  • Great

• Sometimes in our lives we all have pain. We all have sorrow. But if we are wise we know that there's always tomorrow.

  

  Bill Withers
  • Pain
  • Sometimes
  • Sorrow

• 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.

  

  Chris Kattan
  • World
  • Trying
  • Nice

• Yet it is incumbent on those in high places to make wise decisions and it is reasonable and important that the public be correctly informed. It is consequently incumbent on all of us to state the facts as forthrightly as possible.

  

  Hyman G. Rickover
  • Important
  • High
  • Wise

• Food-wise, I'm trying to eat a lot of fruits. I take vitamin pills. For me, that's helpful. Luckily, if I don't go to the gym for two weeks, I'm not feeling it yet, but everybody is warning me, 'Just wait a few more years. You'll feel it.'

  

  Martin Garrix Area21
  • Trying
  • Feeling
  • Food

• We are braver and wiser because they existed, those strong women and strong men... We are who we are because they were who they were. It's wise to know where you come from, who called your name.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Men
  • Women
  • Braver

• Facts are ventriloquists' dummies. Sitting on a wise man's knee they may be made to utter words of wisdom; elsewhere, they say nothing, or talk nonsense, or indulge in sheer diabolism.

  

  Aldous Huxley
  • May
  • Words
  • Wisdom

• Religious ideas about good and evil tend to focus on how to achieve well-being in the next life, and this makes them terrible guides to securing it in this one. Of course, there are a few gems to be found in every religious tradition, but insofar as these precepts are wise and useful they are not, in principle, religious.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Life
  • Good
  • Focus

• Acting-wise, I haven't done a lot of comedy, so I would love to work with Jane Lynch. I think she's hilarious.

  

  David Sutcliffe
  • Work
  • Done
  • She

• Error is a hardy plant; it flourisheth in every soil; In the heart of the wise and good, alike with the wicked and foolish; For there is no error so crooked, but it hath in it some lines of truth; Nor is any poison so deadly, that it serveth not some wholesome use.

  

  Martin Farquhar Tupper
  • Good
  • Heart
  • Truth

• The world has been made by fools that wise men may live in it.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • World
  • Men
  • Live

• Yesterday I was clever, so I changed the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.

  

  Rumi
  • Change
  • Wise
  • Clever

• Be wise today; 'tis madness to defer.

  

  Edward Young
  • Today
  • Wise

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

  

  Samuel Lover
  • Wise
  • Circumstances
  • Weak

• As for omens, there is no such thing as an omen. Destiny does not send us heralds. She is too wise or too cruel for that.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Destiny
  • Cruel
  • Omen

• People do not naturally become morally excellent or practically wise. They become so, if at all, only as the result of lifelong personal and community effort.

  

  Aristotle
  • People
  • Excellent
  • Morally

• Film wise, I invariably look at my work and reckon I could have done it better. I'm also conscious that I'm in a profession where we get more praise than we should compared to the usefulness of what we do.

  

  Jeremy Irons
  • Work
  • Done
  • Wise

• We live in an age that reads too much to be wise, and that thinks too much to be beautiful.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Live
  • Age
  • Beautiful

• I try to frighten my very young colleagues into studying and understanding their voices before they attempt things that are beyond them. It's wise to take gymnastics and swimming to strengthen the body, because people don't realise what an athletic undertaking singing actually is.

  

  Jessye Norman
  • People
  • Understanding
  • Singing

• Even the wise need wisdom.

  

  Sara Evans
  • Wise
  • Needs

• When we were subjected to a vicious character assassination campaign orchestrated by senior White House officials and championed by their allies in the right-wing echo chamber, Hillary reached out to us. Her counsel during that tumultuous period was as timely as it was wise.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Character
  • House
  • Period

• A wise woman wishes to be no one's enemy; a wise woman refuses to be anyone's victim.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Enemy
  • Wishes
  • Victim

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