Top 540 Wise Quotes

It’s just a logical guess that they are very very wise to put someone from the old series in it, and if you had to choose, it would be a very difficult decision.
Andreas Katsulas
The Bible is proved to be a revelation from God, by the reasonableness and holiness of its precepts; all its commands, exhortations, and promises having the most direct tendency to make men wise, holy, and happy in themselves, and useful to one another.
Adam Clarke
It’s so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and say the opposite.
Sam Levenson
My mother went to a school called ‘The Club of the Three Wise Monkeys’. And my grandmother, my father’s mother, had a gold charm for her made with the speak no, see no, hear no evil monkeys. And I was fascinated by that charm. I’d sit in my mother’s lap and play with it all the time.
Mackenzie Phillips
Wiley has given me wise words a few times.
Stormzy
There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself; in no wise hath she need of an author.
Marquis de Sade
It is no judgement of a thing outside yourself to say it makes you ill. The wise reader knows that every pronouncement is, to some degree, an act of self-exposure; the book you find too challenging might only show how ill-equipped you are to face its challenge.
Howard Jacobson
A wise woman puts a grain of sugar into everything she says to a man, and takes a grain of salt with everything he says to her.
Helen Rowland
A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.
David Hume
When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.
Winston Churchill
Writing is as big a part of my career as acting is, financially and time wise. So, yeah, I love it. That’s all I wanted to do since I was young was be a writer. So that and acting are the two most important aspects of my career.
Jonah Hill
I look forward to growing old and wise and audacious.
Glenda Jackson
I’ve never been told what to do by Fahadh. That because you are married to me, this is how you should be. Nothing has changed career wise or in my personal life.
Nazriya Nazim
It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
If you’re impatient while waiting for the bus, tell yourself you’re doing ‘Bus waiting meditation.’ If you’re standing in a slow line at the drugstore, you’re doing ‘Waiting in line meditation.’ Just saying these words makes me feel very spiritual and high-minded and wise.
Gretchen Rubin
When I was a boy, my own dad told me in a smiling and w

When I was a boy, my own dad told me in a smiling and wistful way that it’s a wise man that knows his own father.
Michael Leunig
Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The affairs of this world are so shifting and depend on so many accidents, that it is hard to form any judgment concerning the future; nay, we see from experience that the forecasts even of the wise almost always turn out false.
Francesco Guicciardini
It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents.
Samuel Butler
I’m not a new-agey person, but narrative is ancient and wise and generous.
Jim Crace
The government would also be wise to press on with its further measures to promote growth, as it will want to outperform the low figures in this outlook. This will mean delivering measures to ease money and credit and to stimulate demand.
John Redwood
Fishing is a hard job. Fishing at night. Rain. Day, night. You have to be wise and smart. And quick.
Mariano Rivera
Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
Heinrich Heine
Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.
Alexander Pope
The wise Jewish Israeli must work with the moderate Muslim and the Christian leader of the free world against the crazy Muslims.
Tzipi Livni
The intellect of the wise is like glass; it admits the light of heaven and reflects it.
Augustus Hare
My mother went to university, my father didn’t. But they are very educated, very wise people. My father went to the military, so he’s worldly.
Chuck D
A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Men become wise just as they become rich, more by what they save than by what they receive.
Wilbur Wright
Be wisely worldly, but not worldly wise.
Francis Quarles
The best books for a man are not always those which the wise recommend, but often those which meet the peculiar wants, the natural thirst of his mind, and therefore awaken interest and rivet thought.
William Ellery Channing
I’m not very wise to many things.
Charles Manson
The wise man reads both books and life itself.
Lin Yutang
Is it possible Hanukkah doesn’t inspire folksy songs? Plot lines may be a part. The Christmas story has a lot of material to work with. There’s Jesus and his birth, the wise men, their gifts and tons of frankincense.
Matisyahu
You can be very wild and still be very wise.
Yoko Ono
A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.
John Churton Collins
The wise musicians are those who play what they can master.
Duke Ellington
True conservation provides for wise use by the general public. The American people do not want our resources preserved for the exclusive use of the wealthy. These land and water resources belong to the people, and people of all income levels should have easy access to them.
George Aiken
The monsters of our childhood do not fade away, neither are they ever wholly monstrous. But neither, in my experience, do we ever reach a plane of detachment regarding our parents, however wise and old we may become. To pretend otherwise is to cheat.
John le Carre
The only competition worthy of a wise man is with himself.
Washington Allston
The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.
Niccolo Machiavelli
A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men.
Plato
That’s the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over, lest you should think he never could recapture the first fine careless rapture!
Robert Browning
Since, therefore, no man is born without faults, and he is esteemed the best whose errors are the least, let the wise man consider everything human as connected with himself; for in worldly affairs there is no perfect happiness under heaven.
Giraldus Cambrensis
It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.
Victor Hugo
Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.
Samuel Johnson
I admire Gaga. She's very talented and wise, that girl.

I admire Gaga. She’s very talented and wise, that girl.
Neil Sedaka
Every man is wise when attacked by a mad dog; fewer when pursued by a mad woman; only the wisest survive when attacked by a mad notion.
Robertson Davies
Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
William Butler Yeats
Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.
Unknown
In my day job, I worry non-stop about making wise investments for long-term gains.
J. B. Pritzker
A silent man is easily reputed wise. A man who suffers none to see him in the common jostle and undress of life, easily gathers round him a mysterious veil of unknown sanctity, and men honor him for a saint. The unknown is always wonderful.
Frederick William Robertson
Online transactions, once relegated to leaps of faith, have evolved into our status quo. We no longer ask ourselves whether or not it’s wise to buy online. Instead, we ask whether or not it’s wise to deal with a particular person, service provider, or business.
Leah Busque
Those who are looking to seek power must make wise judgements.
Reham Khan
I want to encourage all Missourians to make wise decisions, love your neighbors and support each other in every way you can.
Mike Parson
If slavery, limited as it yet is, now threatens to subvert the Constitution, how can we as wise and prudent statesmen, enlarge its boundaries and increase its influence, and thus increase already impending dangers?
William H. Seward
I resolved to stop accumulating and begin the infinitely more serious and difficult task of wise distribution.
Andrew Carnegie
Do not reveal what you have thought upon doing, but by wise council keep it secret being determined to carry it into execution.
Chanakya
A word to the wise ain’t necessary – it’s the stupid ones that need the advice.
Bill Cosby
Libraries keep the records on behalf of all humanity. the unique and the absurd, the wise and the fragments of stupidity.
Vartan Gregorian
One of the pitfalls of writing about illness is that it is very easy to imagine people with cancer as either these wise, beyond-their-years creatures or else these sad-eyed, tragic people. And the truth is people living with cancer are very much like people who are not living with cancer.
John Green
The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world.
Charles Caleb Colton
Chinese are wise in comprehending without many words what is inevitable and inescapable and therefore only to be borne.
Pearl S. Buck
A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
Jonathan Swift
An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight… the truly wise person is colorblind.
Albert Schweitzer
We are braver and wiser because they existed, those strong women and strong men… We are who we are because they were who they were. It’s wise to know where you come from, who called your name.
Maya Angelou
There can be no wise politics without thought beforehand.
Annie Besant
You are wise, witty and wonderful, but you spend too much time reading this sort of stuff.
Frank Crane
Where we’ve been wise is that, while ‘Monk’ may have been a risk at the beginning, we’ve built its success and built on its success. We looked at what was working and why it was working.
Bonnie Hammer
If you realize you aren’t so wise today as you thought you were yesterday, you’re wiser today.
Olin Miller