Wise Quotes
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A fool can throw a stone in a pond that 100 wise men can not get out.
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They only are wise who know that they know nothing.
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Persona-wise, I represent a lot of people's childhoods.
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If I'm a commodity, it wouldn't be a wise idea to buy stock in me - although, in the long run, maybe I'm a slow growth investment.
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The wisest men are wise to the full in death.
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Nature Boy There was a boy A very strange enchanted boy They say he wandered very far, very far Over land and sea A little shy And sad of eye But very wise Was he And then one day A magic day he passed my way And while we spoke of many things, fools and kings This he said to me “The greatest thing You’ll ever learn Is just to love And be loved In return
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Silence is the adornment of the wise, and for the foolish the only dignity possible.
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Well isn’t that one thing you’re all the more wise for? Age has taught you something. It seems to me that you know the big secret. That nobody knows what’s going on
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She didn't feel thirty. But then again again, what was being thirty supposed to feel like? When she was younger, thirty seemed so far away, she thought that a woman of that age would be so wise and knowledgeable, so settled in her life with a husband and children and a career. She had none of those things. She still felt as clueless as she had felt when she was twenty, only with a few more gray hairs and crow's feet around her eyes.
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The first proof of a well-ordered mind is to be able to pause and linger within itself.
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We can hope to be fortunate—but we should strive to be wise.
