Wise Quotes
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A horse can lend its rider the speed and strength he or she lacks - but the rider who is wise remembers it is no more then a loan.
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I used to write on a big old couch, but I gave that away. I was wise enough to give it to my son, so if it turns out that the couch was essential to my work, at least the decision to be rid of it is not irreversible.
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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 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.
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Religion either makes men wise and virtuous, or it makes them set up false pretenses to both.
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The wise man must be wise before, not after, the event.
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Therefore it is most expedient for the wise, if Don Worm (his conscience) find no impediment to the contrary, to be the trumpet of his own virtues, as I am to myself.
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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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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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What should a wise person do when given a blow? Same as Cato when he was attacked; not fire up or revenge the insult., or even return the blow, but simply ignore it.
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It's not wise to limit firms' expansion projects. Let us only be limited by the market.
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A traveler of taste will notice that the wise are polite all over the world, but the fool only at home.
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The wise man realistically accepts as part of life and builds a philosophy to meet them and make the most of them. He lives on the principle of nothing attempted, nothing gained and is resolved that if he fails he is going to fail while trying to succeed.
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The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.
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a robin said to anangleworm as he ate himi am sorry but a birdhas to live somehow theworm being slow witted couldnot gather hisdissent into a wise crackand retort he waseffectually swallowedbefore he could turna phrase
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When I was young and less wise, I thought that being a feminist meant being independent. It meant not sacrificing your needs for anyone else's and not relying on anyone else for even a smidgen of your happiness or well being.
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'Tis better to be fortunate than wise.
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Potency does not mean being unnecessarily aggressive; one has to be wise.
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A company that cannot self-correct cannot thrive.
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It is not sufficient merely to be a great master in painting and very wise, but I think that it is necessary for the painter to be very moral in his mode of life, or even, if such were possible, a saint, so that the Holy Spirit may inspire his intellect.
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When I wrote 'Runaways,' I was a naive kid who thought that all parents were evil. Now that I'm a wise old man with children of my own, I am certain that all parents are evil.
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Great deeds give choice of many tales. Choose a slight tale, enrich it large, and then let wise men listen.
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A wise ignorance is an essential part of knowledge.
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A person can be educated and still be stupid, and a wise man can have no education at all.
