Wise Quotes
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Time can but make it easier to be wise / Though now it seems impossible, and so / All that you need is patience.
William Butler Yeats
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I think that the love of the really happy husband and wife—not purged of passion, but with passion heated to a white heat of intensity and purity and tenderness and consideration, and with many another feeling added thereto—is the loftiest and most ennobling influence that comes into the life of any man or woman, even loftier and more ennobling than the wise and tender love for children.
Edmund Morris
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No doubt but ye are the People - absolute, strong and wise; Whatever your hear has desired ye have not withheld from your eyes. On your own heads, in your own hands, the sin and the saving lies!
Rudyard Kipling
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Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise.
Cato the Elder
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Delay not till tomorrow to be wise; tomorrow's sun to thee may neve rise.
William Congreve
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Histories are as perfect as the Historian is wise, and is gifted with an eye and a soul.
Thomas Carlyle
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It is wise to withhold one's heart and mind from men who think themselves superior.
Euripides
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Be happy. It's one way of being wise.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
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A person is not learned nor wise because he talks much; the person who is patient, free from hatred and fear, that person is called learned and wise.
Gautama Buddha
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It is a wise mans part, rather to avoid sickness, than to wish for medicines.
Thomas More
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Each one of us regardless of our situation, is in our search of our most authentic, vital, generous and wise self.
Elizabeth Lesser
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...he'll never lie - the man is far too wise.
Homer
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Nature is always wise in every part.
Edward Thurlow, 1st Baron Thurlow
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The wise man comes to God without saying a word and stands in awe of Him.
Francis Chan
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If poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world, science fiction writers are its court jesters. We are Wise Fools who can leap, caper, utter prophecies, and scratch ourselves in public. We can play with Big Ideas because the garish motley of our pulp origins make us seem harmless.
Bruce Sterling
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A great many wise sayings have been uttered about the effects of solitary retirement; but the motives which impel men to seek it are not more various than the effects which it produces on different individuals. One thing is certain, that those who can with truth affirm that they are "never less alone than when alone," might generally add that they never feel more lonely than when not alone.
Philip James Bailey
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No man ever became wise by chance.
Seneca the Younger
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How wise are they that are but fools in love!
Josh Cooke
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They only are wise who know that they know nothing.
Thomas Carlyle
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It was during this as a kid time that I came out of my shell vocally and performance wise, I learned how to really and truly sing in a different way.... my way. It was an amazing experience because I also realized my lifelong dream - to sing my own songs...I have something to say and it was a great release for me to share that part of myself with others.
Tessanne Chin
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This of course is the way to talk to dragons, if you don't want to reveal your proper name which is wise, and don't want to infuriate them by a flat refusal which is also very wise. No dragon can resist the fascination of riddling talk and of wasting time to trying to understand it.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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So, with their usual sense of justice, ladies argue that because a woman is handsome, therefore she is a fool. O ladies, ladies! there are some of you who are neither handsome nor wise.
William Makepeace Thackeray
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If you are wise, You will mingle one thing with the other- Not hoping without doubt; Not doubting without hope.
Seneca the Younger
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Wise are those who learn that the bottom line doesn't always have to be their top priority.
William Arthur Ward