Wise Quotes
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Appearances to the mind are of four kinds. Things either are what they appear to be; or they neither are, nor appear to be; or they are, and do not appear to be; or they are not, and yet appear to be. Rightly to aim in all these cases is the wise man's task.
Epictetus
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Only the supremely wise and the ignorant do not alter.
Confucius
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Collect as precious pearls the words of the wise and virtuous.”
Abdelkader El Djezairi
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Wise men say that time is like a river. I say time is like a river of SHIT... and as you float down that river in your little canoe, your paddles are getting smaller and smaller.
Lewis Black
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Who was it who said that a wise man speaks when he has something to say, but a fool speaks because he must?
Alastair Reynolds
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Brand-wise, I love Doc Martens, Topshop, All Saints, and Lord & Taylor.
Grace Martine Tandon
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If a man is wise, he gets rich an' if he gets rich, he gets foolish, or his wife does. That's what keeps the money movin' around.
Finley Peter Dunne
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It is impossible to love and to be wise.
Francis Bacon
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The whole Christmas story was probably a later addition to the gospel narratives, presented only by the authors of Matthew and Luke. Mark and John seem never to have heard of the manger in Bethlehem, the Massacre of the Innocents, the hovering star, the three wise men, and so forth.
Jay Parini
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Space station is, it really is one of the more, if not the most, impressive technological achievement of the modern day, not only in what we've accomplished engineering-wise but what we've accomplished on this international scale, because anybody will tell you that half the challenge is making it all work.
Kevin A. Ford
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I trust that everything happens for a reason, even if we are not wise enough to see it.
Oprah Winfrey
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The United States must not adopt the tactics of the enemy. Means are important, as ends. Crisis makes it tempting to ignore the wise restraints that make men free. But each time we do so, each time the means we use are wrong, our inner strength, the strength which makes us free, is lessened.
Frank Church
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Coffee, which makes the politician wise, And see through all things with his half-shut eyes.
Alexander Pope
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I like having a beard. What's funny is when you shave a beard, you realize how freezing cold your face is! The primary purpose evolution-wise is to keep you warm, to grow hair on your face. You shave it off, and your face is freezing for a few days.
Adam Scott
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I'm a golfer, and what are the two sports you can do till you drop? Golf and surfing. They're great for you limber-wise, they're great for you health-wise, and they put you in sweet locations.
Matthew McConaughey
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The wise man sayth, store is no sore.
John Heywood
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Fools call wise men fools. A wise man never calls any man a fool.
Thomas A. Edison
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Look wise, say nothing, and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought.
William Osler
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'How do you know so much about everything?' was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was 'By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.'
John Abbott
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Love is your master, for he masters you; And he that is so yoked by a fool Methinks should not be chronicled for wise.
William Shakespeare
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And he is oft the wisest manWho is not wise at all.
William Wordsworth
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When I was a sophomore at USC, I was a socialist, pretty much to the left. But not when I left the university. I quickly got wise. I'd read about what had happened to Russia in 1917 when the Communists took over.
John Wayne
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Really, what's not to love in John McCain, satire-wise? As if he had not already been good enough to us, then came his nomination of Sarah Palin. Here, truly, was a gift from the gods of satire.
Christopher Buckley
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The aspirations of democracy are based on the notion of an informed citizenry, capable of making wise decisions. The choices we are asked to make become increasingly complex. They require the longer-term thinking and greater tolerance for ambiguity that science fosters. The new economy is predicated on a continuous pipeline of scientific and technological innovation. It can not exist without workers and consumers who are mathematically and scientifically literate.
Ann Druyan