Wise Quotes
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No mortal man, moreover is wise at all moments.
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There is not one wise man in twenty that will praise himself.
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Wisdom is knowing when you can't be wise.
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It is commonly, but erroneously, believed that it is easy to ask questions. A fool, it is said, can ask questions that a wise man cannot answer. The fact is that a wise man can answer many questions that a fool cannot ask.
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The conqueror is regarded with awe; the wise man commands our respect; but it is only the benevolent man that wins our affection.
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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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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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I want my fellow citizens to wise up and stop falling for [war]. I try with my limited access, I'm not getting into Kabul with a camera, they're not letting me get into Benghazi with a camera. I do what I can with my flimsy American passport and a visa. The photos are a bit more heavy from Southern Sudan and Haiti and Cuba.
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You have to be able to psychologically help your players, support-wise, be in touch with them, so I think managing people is very important.
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To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
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Hairdressers are all-knowing. They're so wise.
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As Benjamin Franklin said, 'Those things that hurt, instruct.' It is for this reason that wise people learn not to dread but actually to welcome problems and actually to welcome the pain of problems.
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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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Think not ambition wise, because 't is brave.
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It is better to be wise, and not to seem so, than to seem wise, and not be so; yet men, for the most part, desire the contrary.
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The highest point of philosophy is to be both wise and simple; this is the angelic life.
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The wise man lacked nothing but needed a great number of things, whereas the fool, on the other hand, needs nothing (for he does not know how to use anything) but lacks everything.
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If you are wise, all men will be your friends and kindred, for you will be useful.
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Tis held that sorrow makes us wise.
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We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
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Potency does not mean being unnecessarily aggressive; one has to be wise.
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It was so rare to find someone who was both so young and so wise, both so fresh and so jaded.
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In the midst of possible world war, of wholesale destruction, I find my only question this: are there enough people now who believe? Is there time enough left for the wise to act? It is a contest between ignorance and death, or wisdom and life. My faith in humanity stands firm.
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The dead keep their secrets, and in a while we shall be as wise as they - and as taciturn.
