Wise Quotes · Page 2

As a designer, everything is always about aesthetics mixed in with functionality and having that visual appeal. But you learn fast as…

— Nate Berkus

Knowledge is merely brilliance in organization of ideas and not wisdom. The truly wise person goes beyond knowledge.

— Confucius

Wise people are able to give themselves gracefully to seemingly contradictory experiences, because they know that they belong to different seasons of…

— Sam Keen

Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools…

— Anonymous

Behind many acts that are thought ridiculous there lie wise and weighty motives.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

A little too abstract, a little too wise, It is time for us to kiss the earth again, It is time to…

— Robinson Jeffers

Not every light is a true light; To the wise the light of truth is light itself.

— Thiruvalluvar

The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love.

— Paulo Coelho

All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes.

— Winston Churchill

Why does Samuel Butler say, 'Wise men never say what they think of women'? Wise men never say anything else apparently.

— Virginia Woolf

I don't see the future as bright, language-wise. I see it as a glass half empty - and evaporating quickly.

— Dick Cavett

“The magi, as you know, were wise men — wonderfully wise men — who brought gifts to the Babe in the manger.…

— Charles Dickens

Does a man speak foolishly?--suffer him gladly, for you are wise. Does he speak erroneously?--stop such a man's mouth with sound words…

— Oliver Cromwell

Songwriters might write cynical, world-wise lyrics and constantly talk about money, but most of us are downright naive when it comes to…

— Willie Nelson

Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.

— Edward Young

Into the darkness they go, the wise and the lovely.

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

[Wise men] have tried to understand our state of being, by grasping at its stars, or its arts, or its economics. But,…

— Charles Fort

Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know-and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that…

— Isaac Asimov

Wise and purposeful letting alone is the best part of education.

— Charlotte Mason

To be smart, spend carefully. To be wise, save regularly. To be genius, give extravagantly.

— Chip Ingram

“But let the wise be warned against too great readiness at explanation: it multiplies the sources of mistake, lengthening the sum for…

— George Eliot

It's not about changing--it's about growing, together," he said, like the wise soul that he was. "I wanted to let you know--that…

— Ellen Schreiber

What is commonly honored with the name of Friendship is no very profound or powerful instinct. Men do not, after all, love…

— Henry David Thoreau

This is of monumental significance. The gift has been given - what we make of it is up to us. Unless we…

— F. Burton Howard

The child who dwells inside us trusts that there are wise men somewhere who know the truth.

— Czeslaw Milosz