Wise Quotes
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But Paul, in his preaching of the Gospel, is a debtor to deliver the word not to Barbarians only, but also to Greeks, and not only to the unwise, who would easily agree with him, but also to the wise.
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Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.
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The wise man tells not what he knows. It is not prudent to sport with one's head by revealing the king's secrets.
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He is one of those wise philanthropists who in a time of famine would vote for nothing but a supply of toothpicks.
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You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
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First off, no one award-wise ever rewards comedy, which is... whatever. I don't care about that.
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The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forbearing.
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The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.
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Riches are for the comfort of life, and not life for the accumulation of riches. I asked a holy wise man, "Who is fortunate and who is unfortunate?" He replied: "He was fortunate who ate and sowed, and he was unfortunate who died without having enjoyed.
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Through vigilance, restraint and control the wise will construct and island that no flood will overcome.
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Growing up as a dancer, the stage is really where I love to be performance wise.
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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.
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Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.
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To be wise means to be a teacher, means to be a soul winner. That's our business - That's our only business!
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Luck can be assisted. It is not all chance with the wise.
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Answers make you wise, but questions make you human.
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Yes, as an oppressed people, American Indians have this epic burden, but first and foremost, they're human: sometimes a mess, sometimes funny or sad, at times very wise, and other times not wise at all - a lot like me.
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Libraries keep the records on behalf of all humanity. the unique and the absurd, the wise and the fragments of stupidity.
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Since all of us desire to be happy, and since we evidently become so on account of our use — that is our good use — of other things, and since knowledge is what provides this goodness of use and also good fortune, every man must, as seems plausible, prepare himself by every means for this: to be as wise as possible. Right?
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For the wise man looks into space and he knows there is no limited dimensions.
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The Apocrypha... ought to be bound up with all your Bibles; it contains much that is beautiful and wise, and there is in history nothing finer than the description of Eleazar's end.
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We are placed in the genus of Homo, which is Latin for man - Homo sapiens: supposedly wise men. I sometimes think - wonder - whether we really are wise men.
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Though lust do masque in ne'er so strange disguise she's oft found witty, but is never wise.
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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?
