Wise Quotes · Page 111

A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times.

— Anonymous

It is not wise to neglect the present for the future, for who knows what the future will be?

— H. Rider Haggard

Broken heart is where the wise man turns away and where the faithful kneel and call on God.

— Anonymous

A wise man may be duped as well as a fool; but the fool publishes the triumph of the deceiver.

— Charles Caleb Colton

Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.

— Quintilian

A wise ruler should rely on what is under his own control, not on what is under the control of others.

— Niccolo Machiavelli

No matter how great your words may be, you will be judged by your actions

— Unkown

Wine turns the wise man into a fool and the fool into a wise man.

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

The only part of Christian teachings which will be truly accepted by the Chinese people is Christ's injunction to be "harmless as…

— Lin Yutang

Your mind is a garden,your thoughts are the seeds ,you can grow flowers or you can grow weeds,make your decision wisely.

— Ritu Ghatourey

Georgian film is a completely unique phenomenon, vivid, philosophically inspiring, very wise, childlike. There is everything that can make me cry and…

— Federico Fellini

We get wise by asking questions, and even if these are not answered, we get wise, for a well-packed question carries its…

— James Stephens

For me, a song doesn't really take flight until it has a lyric on it. ...Without a lyric that I'm happy with,…

— Ben Gibbard

CONTEMPLATE THE workings of this world, listen to the words of the wise, and take all that is good as your own.…

— Morihei Ueshiba

Silver gray hair Neatly combed in place There were four generations Of love on her face She was so wise No surprise…

— Dianne Reeves

The wise man knows that it is better to sit on the banks of a remote mountain stream than to be emperor…

— Zhuangzi

It was there [Dijon], I now understand, that I started to grow up, to study, to make love, to eat and drink,…

— M. F. K. Fisher

Believe nothing just because a so-called wise person said it. Believe nothing just because a belief is generally held. Believe nothing just…

— Gautama Buddha

This, books can do-nor this alone; they give New views to life, and teach us how to live; They soothe the grieved,…

— George Crabbe

Nature has taken more care than the fondest parent for the education and refinement of her children. Consider the silent influencewhich flowers…

— Henry David Thoreau

Wisdom is like electricity. There is no permanently wise man, but men capable of wisdom, who, being put into certain company, or…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I didn't think it was a wise decision for me to stay once I seen my second album wasn't going to go…

— Styles P

Trials are medicines which our gracious and wise Physician prescribes because we need them; and he proportions the frequency and weight of…

— Isaac Newton

I believe that justice is instinct and innate, that the moral sense is as much a part of our constitution as that…

— Thomas Jefferson

You've got to be wise and take care of yourself and those around you.

— Danny Rose

Knock upon yourself as upon a door, and when the door opens an answer can be found.

— Richard Zimler

“The wise man desires nothing; he does not judge, he makes no plans, he keeps his mind open and his”

— Isabel Allende

“The Wise are Superb Observers of Nature and Rise Superior to the Blows of Fortune”

— Philo of Alexandria

You can't beat women anyhow and that if you are wise or dislike trouble and uproar you don't even try to.

— William Faulkner

Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.

— Aesop

The most hopelessly stupid man is he who is not aware he is wise.

— Isaac Asimov

The great mountain must collapse, the mighty beam must break and the wise man wither like a plant.

— Confucius

“Rose, you're wise in so many ways . . . and so young in others.”

— Richelle Mead

Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.

— Elizabeth Gaskell

My friends call me an owl. Apparently, it's a combination of being wise and having big eyes.

— Romy Madley Croft

In examinations the foolish ask questions that the wise cannot answer.

— Oscar Wilde

A fool learns nothing from a wise man; but a wise man learns from a fool.

— Gautama Buddha

“The young, in their innocence, are often wise and capable of teaching the old.”

— Christopher Vogler

“For you, I am like a child. For others, I am very wise.”

— Santosh Kalwar

Wise is the man who says what needs to be said, but not all that could be said.

— Marvin J. Ashton