Wise Quotes · Page 53

The cat would eat fish but would not get her feet wet.

— Geoffrey Chaucer

“Wise is the fool who becomes a master at laughter.”

— Curtis Tyrone Jones

Aquarius take pride in being wise and will take every opportunity to become even wiser.

— Anonymous

Wise is the person at either end. Who can in due measure spare as well as spend.

— Lucian

The stupid speak of the past, the wise of the present, and fools of the future.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Weapons are instruments of fear; they are not a wise man's tools. He uses them only when he has no choice.

— Laozi

A word to the wise is enough, and many words won't fill a bushel.

— Benjamin Franklin

Because of how much I've gone through, I want to say I'm more wise than my age.

— Alexis Ren

A wise man seeks by music to strengthen his soul: the thoughtless one uses it to stifle his fears.

— Confucius

Even a queen stubs her toe, but a wise woman watches the path.

— Robert Jordan

I can honestly say that throughout the 70s I never watched telly. I can remember 'Dr Who' and 'Morecambe and Wise' vaguely,…

— Keith Allen

Note to the wise: whenever someone insists that he wants to buy something from you, but tells you there's no real value…

— Michael A. Stackpole

The ignorant man marvels at the exceptional; the wise man marvels at the common; the greatest wonder of all is the regularity…

— George Dana Boardman Pepper

You cannot be wise without some basis of knowledge, but you may easily acquire knowledge and remain bare of wisdom.

— Alfred North Whitehead

Love is a volcano, the crater of which no wise man will approach too nearly, lest ... he should be swallowed up.

— Charles Caleb Colton

Test scores and measures of achievement tell you where a student is, but they don't tell you where a student could end…

— Carol S. Dweck

The love of fame is a passion natural and universal, which no man, however high or mean, however wise or ignorant, was…

— Samuel Johnson

I am twenty years old. To a world-wise adult, I am little more than a child. To any child, however, I am…

— Dean Koontz

If we would find God amid all the religious externals we must first determine to find Him, and then proceed in the…

— Anonymous

'Revelation assures us that 'righteousness exalteth a nation.' Communities are dealt with in this world by the wise and just Ruler of…

— Samuel Adams

We become comfortable saying that there's nothing new, and then something like Malarky comes along, which is new and old and different…

— Laura Lippman

There are a lot of people who approached me after 'Dangal' and 'Stree' to do films in lead roles with great money.…

— Aparshakti Khurana

My father collected turtles when he was young. My parent's wedding album, there's two pictures of them getting married and the rest…

— Hanya Yanagihara

What's interesting is every TV show is shot differently. For example 'Love Island' cameras weren't very forgiving makeup wise, so I felt…

— Zara McDermott

I reached in experience the nirvana which is unborn, unrivalled, secure from attachment, undecaying and unstained. This condition is indeed reached by…

— Gautama Buddha

“It's a fact— everyone is ignorant in some way or another. Ignorance is our deepest secret. And it is one of the…

— Vera Nazarian

Personal Vision is often the catalyst for wise decisions.

— Andy Stanley

The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.

— Walter Savage Landor

Regrets? Well, the more I think of them, the wiser I am.

— Munif Gulroo

There is nothing more beautiful in the world than a healthy wise old man

— Lyn Yutang

Be lowly wise: Think only what concerns thee and thy being.

— John Milton

The more women there are about, the softer a wise man steps.

— Robert Jordan

It is in the half fools and the half wise that the greatest danger lies.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Youth might be wise; we suffer less from pains than pleasures.

— Philip James Bailey

What we have learned to look for in a situation determines mostly what we see.

— Ellen Langer

I think in a play it's wise to just sit back and watch other actors and be able to shape it from…

— Zach Braff

If people have a passion for anything they tend to get quite good at it.

— Brian Johnson

No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.

— Helen Keller

The one who sees inaction in action, and action in inaction, is a wise person.

— Kavinder Kanwar

We think a wise person is someone who solves problems. Truth is, a wise person is someone who avoids problems.

— Prem Rawat