Wise Quotes · Page 101

The more pity, that fools may not speak wisely what wise men do foolishly.

— William Shakespeare

Though we may be learned by another's knowledge, we can never be wise but by our own experience.

— Michel de Montaigne

It takes pride to be anxious – I am not wise enough to know how my life should go.

— Timothy Keller

Without being legalistic, we should be careful and wise in all decisions we make.

— Craig Groeschel

“Who in the universe halts when the enemy tells them to?”

— Sherwood Smith

Fear not the anger of the wise to raise; Those best can bear reproof who merit praise.

— Alexander Pope

You could think of mindfulness as wise and affectionate attention.

— Jon Kabat-Zinn

We always knew that name-recognition wise, that was really my one weakness.

— Erin O'Toole

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

— Roger Ascham

A wise God shrouds the future in obscure darkness. [Lat., Prudens futuri temporis exitum Caliginosa nocte premit deus.]

— Horace

There is nothing selfish about enjoying yourself. In fact, as wise people have long said and psychologists have since discovered, happiness makes…

— Roger N. Walsh

I think clubs can grow from a point into something bigger than you ever imagined they could with wise decisions at correct…

— Eddie Howe

Men are not conditioned to be less powerful than a woman. It will be the wise woman who realizes this and is…

— Joyce Brothers

There are so many different fifteens. And eighteens. And forty-twos, for that matter. Mature fifteens and young fifteens and wise fifteens and…

— Deb Caletti

Those who take up any subject with an open mind, willing to learn anything that will contribute to their advancement, comfort and…

— Roger McDonald

If you learn from the ups and downs. A time shall come there won't be an up. Learn from other people mistakes…

— Frank Matobo

“Hence, the wise man accustoms himself to coming trouble, lightening by long reflection the evils which others lighten by long endurance. We…

— Seneca

Defy the crowd. The crowd isn’t always wise. It can also lead you down a path of silliness, sub-optimal choices, and downright…

— Guy Kawasaki

I was so shy. I used to cross the street so I wouldn't even have to talk to my relatives, much less…

— Geraldine Brooks

The Way teaches that people outside the cult are evil - of the Devil. In line with that belief, the members tried…

— Michael O'Keefe

I, a pilgrim of eternity, stand before Thee, O eternal One. Let me not seek to deaden or destroy the desire for…

— John Baillie

Ah! how little knowledge does a man acquire in his life. He gathers it up like water, but like water it runs…

— H. Rider Haggard

Nature never makes excellent things, for mean or no uses: and it is hardly to be conceived, that our infinitely wise Creator,…

— John Locke

When I was young and bold and strong, The right was right, the wrong was wrong. With plume on high and flag…

— Dorothy Parker

The constancy of the wise is only the art of keeping disquietude to one's self.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The wise man doesn't compete; therefore nobody can compete with him.

— Laozi

Falling down is not defeat . . . defeat is when your refuse to get up...

— Anonymous

“The wise man is not he who gives the right answers; he is the one who asks the right questions.”

— Claude Lévi-Strauss

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.

— Benjamin Disraeli

Since love is folly, a foolish woman is more dangerous than a wise one.

— Franz Grillparzer

A wise man will not communicate his differing thoughts to unprepared minds, or in a disorderly manner.

— Benjamin Whichcote

“Of writing well, be sure, the secret lies In wisdom :therefore study to be wise.”

— Horace

Security isn't what the wise person looks for - it's opportunity.

— Earl Nightingale

OTT release is a wise call, as you can watch a film in the security of your own homes.

— Nikitin Dheer

There are subjects in which I wish to become knowledgeable, and subjects in which I wish to remain wise.

— Anonymous

When a wise man gives thee better counsel, give me mine again.

— William Shakespeare

A wise person is like a smoothly polished rock: it takes time to become either.

— Vera Nazarian

When you are older, 100% you are getting more sensitive. More wise, maybe.

— Dmitry Bivol

A wise girl kisses but doesn't believe and leaves before she is left.

— Marilyn Monroe

Type of the wise who soar but never roam, True to the kindred points of heaven and home.

— William Wordsworth