Wise Quotes
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When I am reading a book, whether wise or silly, it seems to me to be alive and talking to me.
Jonathan Swift -
We are not joining the coalition of the idiots. We are joining the coalition of the wise.
Carolyn Parrish
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The assembled souls of all that men held wise.
William Davenant -
It is wise to listen, not to me but to the Word, and to confess that all things are one.
Heraclitus -
Give a drink of water as alms to the birds which go forth at morning, and deem that they have a better right than men to thy charity. For their race brings not harm upon thee in any wise, when thou fearest it from thine own race.
Al-Maʿarri -
I don't attend film parties; I am anti-social. I don't drink, also. Because I don't go out, I don't know what's happening gossip-wise.
Disha Patani -
The wise person dines on something more subtle: He eats the understanding that the named was born from the unnamed, that all being flows from non-being, that the describable world emanates from an indescribable source.
Lao Tzu -
In general admittedly the Wise of all times have always said the same thing, and the fools, that is to say the vast majority of all times, have always done the same thing, i.e. the opposite; and so it will remain in the future.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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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.
John B. S. Haldane -
Remember that other people may be totally wrong. But they don't think so. Don't condemn them. Any fool can do that. Try to understand them. Only wise, tolerant, exceptional people even try to do that.
Dale Carnegie -
The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.
Marcus Tullius Cicero -
Let me now warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party. The common and continual mischiefs of the spirit of party are sufficient to make it the interest and duty of a wise people to discourage and restrain it. It serves always to distract the public councils and enfeeble the public administration. It agitates the community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms; kindles the animosity of one part against another. In governments purely elective, it is a spirit not to be encouraged.
George Washington -
...now...that I am a wise person. As for me, I wish there were some more of us in the world, for I find it lonesome.
Mark Twain -
Wise is the tongue, wet of perfect thought.
Black Francis Pixies
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Every group has its time. Nobody reigns forever, except Michael Jackson. So, you've gotta be ready for that - and be wise about what you're doing.
Pepa DJ Spinderella -
I think it is a wise course for laborers to unite to defend their interests.... I think the employer who declines to deal with organized labor and to recognize it as a proper element in the settlement of wage controversies is behind the times.... Of course, when organized labor permits itself to sympathize with violent methods or undue duress, it is not entitled to our sympathy.
William Howard Taft -
If thy words are wise, they will not seem so to the foolish: if they are deep the shallow will not appreciate them. Think not highly of thyself, then, when thou art praised by many.
John Lancaster Spalding -
No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.
Ernest Hemingway -
Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man's heart, and the fall through the air of the true, wise friend called Piggy.
William Golding -
It was so rare to find someone who was both so young and so wise, both so fresh and so jaded.
Ally Carter
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All places that the eye of heaven visits Are to a wise man ports and happy havens. Teach thy necessity to reason thus; There is no virtue like necessity.
William Shakespeare -
I think some of my favorite Australian films were shot by people that are not Australian. And I think when Dean Semler did 'Dances with Wolves,' for instance, that's a very different-looking Western than what you've seen much of before. It's very rich, color-wise. But we've got our own very proud thing going on.
Ben Mendelsohn -
'Tis better to be fortunate than wise.
John Webster -
Let's face it, making movies is all risk. Most of the time, batting average-wise, the reward does not outweigh the risk.
John Slattery