Wise Quotes · Page 79

A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men.

— Saadi

Don't be shy about asking for help. It doesn't mean you're weak, it only means you're wise.

— Anonymous

“Do not wait till tomorrow to be wise, For tomorrow's sun may never rise.”

— Michael Winner

The most colossal display of wise, inspiring, and humorous metaphors ever exhibited in one place.

— Richard Lederer

Men have been wise in many different modes; but they have always laughed the same way.

— Samuel Johnson

It's bad taste to be wise all the time, like being at a perpetual funeral.

— Anonymous

A mind that wants to wander around a corner is an un-wise mind. Now, is, be here now.

— George Harrison

No wise man is ever interested in stupid matters like wars! Wars are always on the agenda of only stupid man!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

O Lord Most-wise, strengthen us by Your power that we not fear the non-believing world neither when they lash us with whips…

— Nikolaj Velimirovic

You must let what happens happen. Everything must be equal in your eyes, good and evil, beautiful and ugly, foolish and wise.

— Michael Ende

The wise legislator will only rarely initiate a new rule of behaviour; more usually he will confine himself to affirming in law…

— Gregory Bateson

Elephants are so wise and so funny and so endangered and so intelligent. I just think there is a lot to learn…

— Gloria Steinem

The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us.…

— Euripides

One of the Seven [wise men of Greece] was wont to say: That laws were like cobwebs, where the small flies are…

— Francis Bacon

She hoped to be wise and reasonable in time; but alas! Alas! She must confess to herself that she was not wise…

— Jane Austen

When you are feeling too dull and too domesticated get on a horse, sit tall in the saddle, and for a moment…

— Julia Cameron

If she was suggesting she was too wise with the weight of her experience to fall prey to infatuation - well, the…

— Kristin Cashore

I just think that Kimbo [Slice] in the future could be a great fighter. He's got the look and obviously he's got…

— Ken Shamrock

No one really knew the sciences except the Lord Robert, Bishop of Lincoln, by reason of his length of life and experience,…

— Roger Bacon

I always remember what Bob Dylan said in that [Martin] Scorsese documentary on him. When he was asked about Joan Baez's complaints…

— Richard Gere

There has been evidence throughout history of cycles when the earth gets warmer and cycles when the earth gets colder. We should…

— Raul Labrador

He could remember all about it now; the pitiful figure he must have cut; the absurd way in which he had gone…

— Elizabeth Gaskell

Safe from the Neighbors is a novel of unusual richness and depth, one that's as wise about the small shocks within a…

— Tom Perrotta

[Shahrazad] had perused the books, annals and legends of preceding Kings, and the stories, examples and instances of by gone men and…

— Richard Francis Burton

A wise person is one who understands and respects others point of view as well.

— Anonymous

If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one.

— W. Somerset Maugham

Thinking well to be wise: planning well, wiser: doing well wisest and best of all.

— Malcolm Forbes

Before you're old and wise, you have to be young and reckless.

— Suman Rai

Just because you have the numbers in Congress, doesn't mean it's wise to abuse your power.

— Miranda Devine

To be wise and eke to love, Is granted scarce to gods above.

— Edmund Spenser

“Follow your heart, listen to your inner voice, stop caring about what others think.”

— Roy T. Bennett

All this worldly wisdom was once the unnameable heresy of some wise man.

— Henry David Thoreau

“Every time we choose our past over our present we kill our future.”

— TemitOpe Ibrahim

A wise traveler never despises his own country. [It., Un viaggiatore prudente non disprezza mai il suo paese.]

— Carlo Goldoni

The next best thing to being wise oneself is to live in a circle of those who are.

— Anonymous

A wise doctor does not mutter incantations over a sore that needs the knife.

— Sophocles

Festination may prove Precipitation; Deliberating delay may be wise cunctation.

— Thomas Browne

You can't expect to be old and wise if you were never young and crazy

— Efiosiugbore Adebayo

As the water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it, so a wise man adapts himself to circumstances.

— Confucius

...the wise man knows that every experience is to be viewed as a blessing.

— Henry Miller