Wise Quotes
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A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.
Samuel Johnson -
Who is the wise man? He who sees what's going to be born.
King Solomon
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For the first five years of my life, things felt pretty good. A lot went wrong after that, family-wise.
Damon Galgut -
This is the year which people will talk aboutThis is the year which people will be silent about.The old see the young die.The foolish see the wise die.The earth no longer produces, it devours.The sky hurls down no rain, only iron.
Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht -
Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.
Baltasar Gracian -
Through vigilance, restraint and control the wise will construct and island that no flood will overcome.
Gautama Buddha -
I believe the classified section of a newspaper - especially the 'Business Opportunities' column - can tell you more about your city 'business-wise' than any other publication.
E. Joseph Cossman -
My parents are very proud of my success but still worry, as I'm in a profession where there is no guarantee of work. They have always supported my decision to go into acting, but there have been tough times work-wise.
David Harewood
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I find that with period pieces, you're sort of able to really take advantage of what's around you because prop-wise, wardrobe-wise and location-wise, it's all so specific due to that time.
Hailee Steinfeld -
The wise man tells not what he knows. It is not prudent to sport with one's head by revealing the king's secrets.
Saadi -
Logic is a large drawer, containing some useful instruments, and many more that are superfluous. A wise man will look into it for two purposes, to avail himself of those instruments that are really useful, and to admire the ingenuity with which those that are not so, are assorted and arranged.
Logic -
The philosopher must teach these pupils French students that it is far less essential to understand nature than to enjoy and respect its laws; that these laws are both wise and simple; that they are written in all human hearts, and that one need merely question a heart in order to appreciate its impulses.
Marquis de Sade -
You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
Naguib Mahfouz -
The wise man should be prepared for everything that does not lie within his control.
Pythagoras
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Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men?
Natalie Clifford Barney -
'Swan,' by Mary Oliver. Poems and prose. Reading from this book is as if visiting a very wise friend. There is wisdom and welcoming kindness on every page.
Jessye Norman -
Growing up as a dancer, the stage is really where I love to be performance wise.
Jacob Artist -
I am afforded a bit of easy wonderment in relative comfort as to how humans have lasted so long. Climate- and geography-wise, the planet seems to have little use for us.
Henry Rollins Black Flag -
First off, no one award-wise ever rewards comedy, which is... whatever. I don't care about that.
Adam McKay -
Language-wise, my mom and dad's dialect, they're pretty obscure. It's Chinese, but not your traditional Chinese, like Cantonese or Mandarin. It wasn't something that I got to use very much growing up. We eventually just spoke English around the house.
James Wan
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The affairs of this world are so shifting and depend on so many accidents, that it is hard to form any judgment concerning the future; nay, we see from experience that the forecasts even of the wise almost always turn out false.
Francesco Guicciardini -
O sleepers! what a thing is slumber! Sleep resembles death. Ah, why then dost thou not work in such wise as that after death thou mayst retain a resemblance to perfect life, when, during life, thou art in sleep so like to the hapless dead?
Leonardo da Vinci -
Almighty Freedom! give my venturous song The force, the charm that to thy voice belong; Tis thine to shape my course, to light my way, To nerve my country with the patriot lay, To teach all men where all their interest lies, How rulers may be just and nations wise: Strong in thy strength I bend no suppliant knee, Invoke no miracle, no Muse but thee.
Joel Barlow -
The wise man does not grow old, but ripens.
Victor Hugo