Wise Quotes
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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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I would beg the wise and learned fathers [of the church] to consider with all diligence the difference which exists between matters of mere opinion and matters of demonstration.
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'Tis better to be fortunate than wise.
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So wise so young, they say, do never live long.
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The desire of glory is the last infirmity cast off even by the 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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Do you not know...that a child badly taught is farther from being wise than one not taught at all?
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If I could be generous and move forward and spread my feelers business-wise and also creatively, that's the best position to put myself in.
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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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If you are wise, all men will be your friends and kindred, for you will be useful.
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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.
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No one in my family had ever done anything acting-wise or entertainment industry-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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Wise is the tongue, wet of perfect thought.
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Tis held that sorrow makes us wise.
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A company that cannot self-correct cannot thrive.
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We, ignorant of ourselves, Beg often our own harms, which the wise powers Deny us for our good; so find we profit By losing of our prayers.
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I think a well-fit T-shirt and jeans can just kill, style-wise. At least, that's what I tell myself, because that's what I'm going to keep wearing till I die.
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Planning is like taking on blinders. I think it is a wise thing to be open to whatever shows up on your doorstep.
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Work-wise, I try not to repeat myself too often. And I have to love whatever I'm doing.
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O Mistress mine, where are you roaming? O, stay and hear; your true love's coming, That can sing both high and low: Trip no further, pretty sweeting; Journeys end in lovers meeting, Every wise man's son doth know. What is love? 'Tis not hereafter; Present mirth hath present laughter; What's to come is still unsure: In delay there lies not plenty; Then, come kiss me, sweet and twenty, Youth's a stuff will not endure.
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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.
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People always fancy that we must become old to become wise; but, in truth, as years advance, it is hard to keep ourselves as wise as we were.
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In any future great national trial, compared with the men of this, we shall have as weak, and as strong; as silly and as wise; asbad and good.
