Words matter. These are the best Wise Quotes from famous people such as Monica Crowley, Frank Herbert, Andrew Carnegie, Masai Ujiri, Friedrich Schiller, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
When the world lacks muscular and wise American leadership, it devolves into total chaos, which, in turn, produces unspeakable evils.
It is a wise man that does know the contented man is never poor, whilst the discontented man is never rich.
Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital. The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket.
I understand my job and what the job is and what has to be done basketball wise. I do that 24/7 and it’s a huge priority for me, but I cannot be in this job and not try to affect the youth of Africa, or the youth around the world, even. Help other people in some kind of way.
It is often wise to reveal that which cannot be concealed for long.
A word to the wise is infuriating.
A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times.
When I was a sophomore at USC, I was a socialist, pretty much to the left. But not when I left the university. I quickly got wise. I’d read about what had happened to Russia in 1917 when the Communists took over.
The mobilisation which Bush has been able to perform since 11 September 2001 has to be fought – at least by Americans – in the name of a wise, honourable and democratic patriotism.
The big banks advise cities about whether privatization is a wise choice. They also control the ability of states and cities to access the market for their financing needs.
Howard Zinn was magical as a teacher. Witty, irreverent, and wise, he loved what he was teaching and clearly wanted his students to love it, also.
Recently I heard a ‘wise guy’ story that I had a party at my home for twenty-five men. It’s an interesting story, but I don’t know twenty-five men I’d want to invite ta a party.
It is not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.
That was my choice at that time, and I still say Nixon was a great president. A very beautiful and wise man.
Though lust do masque in ne’er so strange disguise she’s oft found witty, but is never wise.
A wise human would have an understanding of the supply chain and how the pieces fit together. But it’s against our nature to think about it.
Women are not so well united as to form an Insurrection. They are for the most part wise enough to love their Chains, and to discern how becomingly they fit.
A wise man looks upon men as he does on horses; all their comparisons of title, wealth, and place, he consider but as harness.
Those who gave thee a body, furnished it with weakness; but He who gave thee Soul, armed thee with resolution. Employ it, and thou art wise; be wise and thou art happy.
My parents called me their wise little baby. I was mature when I was 4 or 5. My brother and sister were older, so I was raised by four adults.
Some of the wise boys who say my music is loud, blatant and that’s all should see the faces of the kids who have driven a hundred miles through the snow to see the band… to stand in front of the bandstand in an ecstasy all their own.
I don’t have a problem with delegation. I love to delegate. I am either lazy enough, or busy enough, or trusting enough, or congenial enough, that the notion leaving tasks in someone else’s lap doesn’t just sound wise to me, it sounds attractive.
Yeah, musically, from a production standpoint my favorite is probably ‘Have a Little Talk with Jesus’. Just the way it turned out production wise with the clarinet and everything, it sounds like something from a movie.
Fiction is a house with many stately mansions, but also one in which it is wise, at least sometimes, to swing from the chandeliers.
Life is a pilgrimage. The wise man does not rest by the roadside inns. He marches direct to the illimitable domain of eternal bliss, his ultimate destination.
When it comes to power, God Himself is the power. God often uses foolish things to confound the wise. That is why people like me will ever be grateful to God. In terms of knowledge, education and name, I am nowhere – a neglected stone.
The fool wanders, a wise man travels.
No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.
A wise unselfishness is not a surrender of yourself to the wishes of anyone, but only to the best discoverable course of action.
I know as a critic I’m required to have a well-armored heart. I must be a cynical wise guy to show my great sophistication. No pushover, me.
Every group has its time. Nobody reigns forever, except Michael Jackson. So, you’ve gotta be ready for that – and be wise about what you’re doing.
I think you have to be wise and know your limitations and know how to work within them.
It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanism of friendship.
God saw fit, for wise reasons to allow the people of Israel thus to make and possess slaves; but is this any license to us to enslave any of our fellow-men, to kill any of our fellow-men whom we please and are able to destroy, and take possession of their estates?
I think if I did something in the pop world right now, it would be for Rihanna. I’d love to do something production wise for her.
A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant.
The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.
True consistency, that of the prudent and the wise, is to act in conformity with circumstances and not to act always the same way under a change of circumstances.
It’s not wise to just blindly copy what others are doing.
A wise traveler never depreciates their own country.
In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body; then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self.
A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.
A wise woman keeps her hands firmly in her pockets and does not accidentally unzip anything, including her mouth.
The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.
The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
A vain man finds it wise to speak good or ill of himself; a modest man does not talk of himself.
Be wise; soar not too high to fall; but stoop to rise.
It is wise to persuade people to do things and make them think it was their own idea.
The wise make proverbs, and fools repeat them.
True love is not a strong, fiery, impetuous passion. It is, on the contrary, an element calm and deep. It looks beyond mere externals, and is attracted by qualities alone. It is wise and discriminating, and its devotion is real and abiding.
It behoves thee to love God wisely; and that may thou not do but if thou be wise.
Whatever the immediate gains and losses, the dangers to our safety arising from political suppression are always greater than the dangers to the safety resulting from political freedom. Suppression is always foolish. Freedom is always wise.
Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.
If I do the same thing each year, that feels like I am sat on a shelf, and mentally that wouldn’t be wise.
A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.
It’s funny: ‘Next Thing’ was written in a time of my life when I was actually really naive and thought that I was wise.
The phoebe-bird is a wise architect and perhaps enjoys as great an immunity from danger, both in its person and its nest, as any other bird. Its modest ashen-gray suit is the color of the rocks where it builds, and the moss of which it makes such free use gives to its nest the look of a natural growth or accretion.
From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.
Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.
Every human being has, like Socrates, an attendant spirit; and wise are they who obey its signals. If it does not always tell us what to do, it always cautions us what not to do.
Speech within the kingdom of Amazonia – run by its sovereign Jeff Bezos and his board of directors with help from the wise counsel and judgment of the company’s executives – is not protected in the same way that speech is constitutionally protected in America’s public spaces.
The mark of a wise person isn’t never making mistakes – everyone makes plenty of them. Rather, it’s the ability to quickly admit – and fix – them!
He was a wise man who originated the idea of God.
My brother calls me penny wise, pound foolish.
Currently, I’m working with a company called DRL Promotions with my partners Dan Wise and Luis De Cubas. We’re currently representing over 30 fighters.
