Wise Quotes · Page 100

A wise woman likes but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe and leaves before she is left.

— Marilyn Monroe

A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.

— Bruce Lee

Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the rest is in the hands of God.

— George Washington

It was so rare to find someone who was both so young and so wise, both so fresh and so jaded.

— Ally Carter

If you tell me I'm sensible in addition to normal and wise, I'm going to punch you in the stomach.

— Anonymous

The follies of the wise man are known to himself, but hidden from the world.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Life is too short to be a fool so be wise coz you only have one life.

— David Christopher

The truly wise man is he who always believes the Bible against the opinions of any man.

— R. A. Torrey

Be not penny-wise. Riches have wings. Sometimes they fly away of themselves, and sometimes they must be set flying to bring in…

— Francis Bacon

“Do not constantly spend your time complaining about a problem you may be having or may be up against, focus your time…

— Victoria addino

You're going to make mistakes. You're going to go about some things the wrong way. That said, be wise enough to hit…

— Anonymous

If you expect the wise man to be as angry as the baseness of crimes requires, then he must not only be…

— Seneca the Younger

Humor is hard, hard, hard. And if you fail with humor, you don't fail halfway. You drop the ball humor-wise and everyone…

— Patrick Rothfuss

Tis not in battles that from youth we train The Governor who must be wise and good, And temper with the sternness…

— William Wordsworth

He that will write well in any tongue must follow this counsel of Aristotle: to speak as the common people do, to…

— Roger Ascham

The message of the season is not, "Let it snow" or even, "Let us shop." The real message of Christmas is, "Let…

— Greg Laurie

may i be i is the only prayer--not may i be great or good or beautiful or wise or strong today... may…

— Anonymous

Only the wise know just where predestination ends and free will begins. Meanwhile, you must keep on doing your best, according to…

— Paramahansa Yogananda

. . . Newton was an unquestioning believer in an all-wise creator of the universe, and in his own inability - like…

— Isaac Newton

It is too probable that no plan we propose will be adopted. Perhaps another dreadful conflict is to be sustained. If, to…

— George Washington

'God put the rainbow in the clouds, not just in the sky'... It is wise to realize we already have rainbows in…

— Maya Angelou

Computers bootstrap their own offspring, grow so wise and incomprehensible that their communiqués assume the hallmarks of dementia: unfocused and irrelevant to…

— Peter Watts

Arise, awake! This path is arduous. So we learn from the wise, and we have to follow in the footsteps of the…

— Sri Chinmoy

Remember, you cannot be both young and wise. Young people who pretend to be wise to the ways of the world are…

— Stephen Colbert

“Some people make their own opportunities. The wise person benefits from acts that are lost on others.”

— Jim M. Perdue

We are, every one of us, like a wise guru in charge of a mental patient.

— Jamie Catto

I alone know I am wise because I alone know I know nothing.

— Socrates

To speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do is style.

— Roger Ascham

Positive thinking will absolutely make your life better, and you should keep that in mind.

— Senoraroy

A wise man can and should stand above his times, not so the poet, but he should be their apex.

— Franz Grillparzer

Seek not greater wealth, but simpler pleasure; not higher fortune, but deeper felicity.

— Anonymous

There is no mortal truly wise and restless at once; wisdom is the repose of minds.

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Only fools use their mouth to speak. A smart man uses his brain, and a wise man uses his heart.

— Jack Ma

“Sometimes loneliness is just the result of a life full of defenses.”

— Augusto Branco

Never let your inferiors do you a favor - it will be extremely costly.

— H. L. Mencken

Keep it up, wise guy. I'm always going to be taller than you once you're lying unconscious on the ground.

— Jim Butcher

It is a wise man that does know the contented man is never poor, whilst the discontented man is never rich.

— Frank Herbert

A L L men are ORDINARY men; the EXTRAORDINARY men are those who KNOW it.

— G K Chesterton

A wise judge, by the craft of the law, was never seduced from its purpose.

— Robert Southey