Wise Quotes
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I'm not wise, but the beginning of wisdom is there; it's like relaxing into - and an acceptance of - things.
Tina Turner Ike & Tina Turner
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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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They only are wise who know that they know nothing.
Thomas Carlyle
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Also, I learned whether you are gay, bisexual, it doesn't matter, you know... because, at the end of the day, they're both gross. But mostly, I learned that elderly black women are wise beyond their years... but younger black women are prostitutes.
Sarah Silverman
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Prosperity tries the souls even of the wise.
Sallust
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What the wise seek is in themselves.
Confucius
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The wise speak only of what they know.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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The greatest thing for me football-wise is that it's a test of will.
Troy Polamalu
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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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Experience makes us wise.
William Hazlitt
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Nature is always wise in every part.
Edward Thurlow, 1st Baron Thurlow
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We share a lot in common, attitude wise.
Alex Riley
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No man ever became wise by chance.
Seneca the Younger
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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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Delay not till tomorrow to be wise; tomorrow's sun to thee may neve rise.
William Congreve
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Never try to sell at the top. It isn't wise. Sell after a reaction if there is no rally.
Jesse Livermore
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How wise are they that are but fools in love!
Josh Cooke
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Silence is the adornment of the wise, and for the foolish the only dignity possible.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
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A woman may possess the wisdom and chastity of Minerva, and we give no heed to her, if she has a plain face. What folly will not a pair of bright eyes make pardonable? What dullness may not red lips are sweet accents render pleasant? And 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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Everyone breathes in air, but it's a wise person who knows when to use that air to speak and when to exhale in silence.
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
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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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No man is so wise that he cannot benefit by talking things out with others.
Richard L. Evans
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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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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