Wise Quotes
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Being satisfied with little, you can gain much. Seeking much you will go astray. The wise heeds this precept. If it could be so with all people!
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Shelley, who in Prometheus Unbound had observed that the wise lack love and those who have love lack wisdom, went to his end in The Triumph of Life asking why good and the means of good were irreconcilable.
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Every human being has, like Socrates, an attendant spirit; and wise are they who obey its signals. If it does not always tell us what to do, it always cautions us what not to do.
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When I can look life in the eyes, grown calm and very coldly wise, life will have given me the truth, and taken in exchange - my youth.
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In one thing you have not changed, dear friend," said Aragorn: "you still speak in riddles." "What? In riddles?" said Gandalf. "No! For I was talking aloud to myself. A habit of the old: they choose the wisest person present to speak to; the long explanations needed by the young are wearying.
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It is impossible to love and to be wise.
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Too many are not willing to give the Gospel a fair trial. They are too ignorant to speak wisely but not wise enough to speak ignorantly. A man is not a sinner because he is a skeptic; he is a skeptic because he is a sinner.
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A word to the wise is enough.
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Time is the least thing we have.
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I'd hate to see any film I'm involved in fail, especially artistically but also business-wise.
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A big 'thank you' to George Demetrion for helping readers see that the center does hold. A wise and winsome work.
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I don't know if that's a year's bad luck, or if that's how it works. But stealing a Christmas tree - that can't be a good thing, karma-wise.
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A wise woman keeps her hands firmly in her pockets and does not accidentally unzip anything, including her mouth.
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I am wise enough to know that there are some perils from which a man must flee.
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If thou hast never been a fool, be sure thou wilt never be a wise man.
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I'm not a new-agey person, but narrative is ancient and wise and generous.
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Wise are they who have learned these truths: Trouble is temporary. Time is tonic. Tribulation is a test tube.
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I don't think there's any harm at all in allowing a kid to fantasize. In fact, I think to stop people from fantasizing is a very destructive thing indeed.
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The truly wise man is he who always believes the Bible against the opinions of any man.
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The world I believe is far too serious, and being far too serious, is it has need of a wise and merry philosophy.
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A vain man finds it wise to speak good or ill of himself; a modest man does not talk of himself.
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Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.
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The old man murmured: 'Aye, we draw to an end. Dying hurts. Nonetheless the forefathers were wise who in their myths made Nan coequal with Lesu. A thing which endured forever would become unendurable. Death opens a way, for peoples as well as for people.'
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The Mask "Put off that mask of burning gold With emerald eyes." "O no, my dear, you make so bold To find if hearts be wild and wise, And yet not cold." "I would but find what's there to find, Love or deceit." "It was the mask engaged your mind, And after set your heart to beat, Not what's behind." "But lest you are my enemy, I must enquire." "O no, my dear, let all that be, What matter, so there is but fire In you, in me?"
