Wise Quotes
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I am really sorry to see my countrymen trouble themselves about politics. If men were wise, the most arbitrary princes could not hurt them. If they are not wise, the freest government is compelled to be a tyranny. Princes appear to me to be fools. Houses of Commons and Houses of Lords appear to me to be fools; they seem to me to be something else besides human life.
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I don't think a wise thing at this moment is for Israel to launch a military attack on Iran.
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What all the wise men promised has not happened and what all the dammed fools said would happen has come to pass.
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Few things are necessary to make the wise man happy while no amount of material wealth would satisfy a fool. I am not a fool.
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Over the years they both reached the same wise conclusion by different paths: it was not possible to live together in any other way, or love in any other way, and nothing in this world was more difficult than love.
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I had now-not for the first time, nor the thousandth-trampled upon an old and wise and stern maxim of mine, to wit: 'Supposing is good, but finding out is better.'
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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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No person is so grand or wise or perfect as to be the master of another person. Teacher, perhaps. Setter of good example, perhaps. Genius, perhaps. But master, no.
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No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.
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And however dark the skies may appear, And however souls may blunder, I tell you it all will work out clear, For good lies over and under.
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A wise man told me don't argue with fools. Cause people from a distance can't tell who is who.
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God's deepest secrets often miss the wise and prudent and are revealed unto babes. We say, "Children, be like your parents." Jesus said, "Parents, be like your children."
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Confidence gives a fool the advantage over a wise man.
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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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Peter Jones's is a vital public service. He reminds us that while we shouldn't live in the past, we are wiser and stronger when we live with it.
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Reading books everyone died, none became any wise.
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A story should, to please, at least seem true, Be apropos, well told, concise, and new: And whenso'er it deviates from these rules, The wise will sleep, and leave applause to fools.
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Cato used to assert that wise men profited more by fools than fools by wise men; for that wise men avoided the faults of fools, but that fools would not imitate the good examples of wise men.
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Hairdressers are all-knowing. They're so wise.
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So wise so young, they say, do never live long.
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The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool.
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From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.
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It was not until I had graduated from college that I made a professional commitment to it. Frankly, I didn't think it wise. I was my own interior parental force, and it's very difficult to justify a profession as a dancer.
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To fear death, gentlemen, is no other then to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know.
