wise Quotes

“There’s nothing wise and nothing silly Wasn’t thought of long ago. ”

“Men of few words are the best men.”

“You are not wise enough to fear me as I should be feared. You do not know the first note of the music that moves me.”

“But Taborlin knew the name of all things, and so all things were his to command.”

“There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.”

“The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.”

“I like men of your age . . . young boys are so idiotic. They tell me how much champagne they drink at college, and how much money they lose playing cards. Men of your age know how to appreciate women.”

“‘Where there is no experience, I believe the wise man is silent.’”

“The light was too bad now for Shasta to see much of the cat except that it was very big and very solemn. It looked as if it might have lived for long, long years among the Tombs, alone. It’s eyes made you think it knew secrets it would not tell.”

“Gold clingeth to the protection of the cautious owner who invests it under the advice of men wise in its handling.”

“He wasn’t only a fierce lover, with endless wisdom and imagination, but he was also, perhaps, the first man in the history of species who had made an emergency landing and had come close to killing himself and his sweetheart simply to make love in a field of violets.”

“When misfortune comes, The wisest even lose their mother wit.”

‘We cannot advance without new experiments in living, but no wise man tries every day what he has proved wrong the day before.’

“We cannot advance without new experiments in living, but no wise man tries every day what he has proved wrong the day before.”

“So wise so young, they say, do never live long.”

“Jasnah had once defined a fool as a person who ignored information because it disagreed with desired results.”

“Wisdom is the warrior’s greatest weapon. When you have wisdom, you are never unarmed, you are never defenseless, and you are never powerless. You need skill to know how to shoot an arrow straight, but only wisdom can teach you how to never need to shoot it.”

“The fool lives to consume all they can take from the world. The wise live to create a better world.”

“Fools dwelling in ignorance, yet imagining themselves wise and learned, go round and round in crooked ways, like the blind led by the blind.”

“Children (the ignorant) pursue external pleasures; (thus) they fall into the wide-spread snare of death. But the wise, knowing the nature of immortality, do not seek the permanent among fleeting things.”

“A friend is like an owl, both beautiful and wise. Or perhaps a friend is like a ghost, whose spirit never dies ”

“Put your foot through the hole in the seedpod where I was playing, and you will become wise.”

“The constancy of the wise is the art to contain their excitement in the heart.”

“After all, I am not so violently bent upon my own opinion as to reject any offer, proposed by wise men, which shall be found equally innocent, cheap, easy, and effectual.”

“Sometimes dreams are wiser than waking.”

“If one believes Homer, Sisyphus was the wisest and most prudent of mortals. According to another tradition, however, he was disposed to practice the profession of highwayman. I see no contradiction in this.”

“The wise ones serve on the higher, but rule on the lower. They obey the laws coming from above them, but en their own plane, and those below them, they rule and give orders.”

“Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.”

“It is never wise to purposefully do without the benefits of having a mentor in your life. You will waste valuable time in finding and shaping what you need to know. But sometimes you have no choice.”

“A wise bear always keeps a marmalade sandwich in his hat in case of emergency.”

“The old Eskimos were scientists too. By using the plants, animals, and temperature, they had changed the harsh Arctic into a home, a feat as incredible as sending rockets to the moon. […] They had been wise. They had adjusted to nature instead of to man-made gadgets.”

“Wise Men learn by other’s harms; Fools by their own.”

“Seek the company of the wise, who know. Agree with what they say, for one understands only that with which one agrees. Be sincere in what you say- a single tongue should not speak two different words. No deceit or fraud should enter into your thoughts. Do not belittle anyone or anything, for everyone and everything in its inner being wishes for the same thing.”

“He went like one that hath been stunn’d, And is of sense forlorn: A sadder and a wiser man He rose the morrow morn.”

“He went like one that hath been stunn’d, And is of sense forlorn: A sadder and a wiser man He rose the morrow morn.”

“Shhh! Quiet...Drac, the Warrior Queen of Tirnol Two, is in terrible danger. She is fearless, as fast as the whirlwind, as wise as the White Wizard...”

“Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.”

“Do not try to seem wise to others. If you want to live a wise life, live it on your own terms and in your own eyes.”

“How wise are little children who see and are silent!”

“How wise are little children who speak truth!”

“Are you as wise as you are beautiful?”

“There is a strange secrecy in his nature,” replied Hester, thoughtfully; “and it has grown upon him by the hidden practices of his revenge.

“Men and their cubs are very wise.”

“Here we sit in a branchy row, Thinking of beautiful things we know; Dreaming of deeds that we mean to do, All complete, in a minute or two— Something noble and wise and good, Done by merely wishing we could.”

“No, my dear; but if your Black Beauty had not been wiser than we were we should all have been carried down the river at the wooden bridge.”