Wise Quotes
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Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.
Jonathan Swift
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The dead keep their secrets, and in a while we shall be as wise as they - and as taciturn.
Alexander Smith
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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.
Lao Tzu
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One fool can ask more questions in a minute than 12 wise men can answer in an hour.
Vladimir Lenin
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Online transactions, once relegated to leaps of faith, have evolved into our status quo. We no longer ask ourselves whether or not it's wise to buy online. Instead, we ask whether or not it's wise to deal with a particular person, service provider, or business.
Leah Busque
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As far as poetry, I don't know if I've ever written any. I've read a lot. I just write and it comes out in different forms and shapes. I don't know if I'm any good at it I just really go for it and I'm very prolific book wise only because I own the company. No one tells me 'no' around here.
Henry Rollins Black Flag
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They're mutually incompatible I feel; being a wise thief and a wise father.
Andre Braugher
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Think not ambition wise, because 't is brave.
William Davenant
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The wise traveler is he who is perpetually surprised.
Vita Sackville-West
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A company that cannot self-correct cannot thrive.
Carol S. Dweck
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Fortunately for me, I'm married to an amazing woman - Nancy Lasseter - who is wise enough not to let me buy every car I want. If I was single, I would be living in a very small apartment and renting a warehouse full of cool cars.
John Lasseter
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The wise win before they fight, while the ignorant fight to win.
Zhuge Liang
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A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men.
Plato
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A fool will study for twenty or thirty years and learn how to do something, but a wise man will study for twenty or thirty minutes and become an expert. In this world, it isn't ability that counts, but authority.
Barry Hughart
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Is 'fat' really the worst thing a human being can be? Is 'fat' worse than 'vindictive', 'jealous', 'shallow', 'vain', 'boring' or 'cruel'? Not to me.
Joanne Rowling
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The highest point of philosophy is to be both wise and simple; this is the angelic life.
John Chrysostom
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Wise are they who have learned these truths: Trouble is temporary. Time is tonic. Tribulation is a test tube.
William Arthur Ward
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Now this relaxation of the mind from work consists on playful words or deeds. Therefore it becomes a wise and virtuous man to have recourse to such things at times.
Thomas Aquinas
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If thou hast never been a fool, be sure thou wilt never be a wise man.
William Makepeace Thackeray
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Hairdressers are all-knowing. They're so wise.
Jamila Woods
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If you are wise, all men will be your friends and kindred, for you will be useful.
Plato
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History admires the wise, but elevates the brave.
Edmund Morris
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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.
Vance Havner
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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?"
William Butler Yeats