Wise Quotes
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Trend-wise, I hope to keep bringing completely new collections to the industry that will make people think and defy the norm.
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The fool inherits, but the wise must get.
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...now...that I am a wise person. As for me, I wish there were some more of us in the world, for I find it lonesome.
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The wise traveler [to Beirut] will pack shirts or blouses with ample breast pockets. Reaching inside a jacket for your passport looks too much like going for the draw and puts armed men out of countinence
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When a king speaks, the armies move. But when a wise man speaks, only the beard shakes.
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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 way of the superior person is threefold; virtuous, they are free from anxieties; wise they are free from perplexities; and bold they are free from fear.
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Hair-wise, the move for me is to not wash it. I try to only wash it when I have to or for a shoot or something.
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The assembled souls of all that men held wise.
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The man who is completely wise and virtuous has no need of glory, except so far as it disposes and eases his way to action by the greater trust that it procures him.
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Indeed, I am very sorry to be right in this instance. I would much rather have been merry than wise.
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If men were wise they would see that the affection that God has implanted in us is amply sufficient, when not weakened by artificial aid, to ensure permanence of union; and if they would have more faith in this all would go well. To tie together by human law what God has tied together by passion, is about as wise as it would be to chain the moon to the earth lest the natural attraction existing between them should not be sufficient to prevent them flying asunder.
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Why does Samuel Butler say, 'Wise men never say what they think of women'? Wise men never say anything else apparently.
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He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.
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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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A man is sane morally at thirty, rich mentally at forty, wise spiritually at fifty-or never!
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Chinese are wise in comprehending without many words what is inevitable and inescapable and therefore only to be borne.
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Yes, if the life and death of Socrates are those of a wise man, the life and death of Jesus are those of a god.
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The wise man regulates his conduct by the theories both of religion and science. But he regards these theories not as statements of ultimate fact but as art-forms.
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Since, therefore, no man is born without faults, and he is esteemed the best whose errors are the least, let the wise man consider everything human as connected with himself; for in worldly affairs there is no perfect happiness under heaven.
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No man is born wise; but wisdom and virtue require a tutor; though we can easily learn to be vicious without a master.
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Nothing wise was ever printed upon an apron.
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If thy words are wise, they will not seem so to the foolish: if they are deep the shallow will not appreciate them. Think not highly of thyself, then, when thou art praised by many.
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Be not penny-wise. Riches have wings. Sometimes they fly away of themselves, and sometimes they must be set flying to bring in more.
