Behold, the fool saith, "Put not all thine eggs in the one basket" - which is but a matter of saying, "Scatter your money and your attention"; but the wise man saith, "Pull all your eggs in the one basket and - WATCH THAT BASKET." - Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar
- Mark Twain
The wise thing is for us diligently to train ourselves to lie thoughtfully, judiciously; to lie with a good object, and not an evil one; to lie for others' advantage, and not our own; to lie healingly, charitably, humanely, not cruelly, hurtfully, maliciously; to lie gracefully and graciously, not awkwardly and clumsily; to lie firmly, frankly, squarely, with head erect, not haltingly, tortuously, with pusillanimous mien, as being ashamed of our high calling.
- Mark Twain
Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge.
- Mark Twain
All this very plausible reasoning does not convince me, as it has not convinced the wisest of our Statesmen, that our ancestors erred in laying it down as an axiom of policy that the toleration of Irregularity is incompatible with the safety of the State.
- Edwin A Abbott
Travel brings wisdom only to the wise. It renders the ignorant more ignorant than ever.
- Joe Abercrombie
Elves seldom give unguarded advice, for advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill.
- J R R Tolkien
Pay heed to the tales of old wives. It may well be that they alone keep in memory what it was once needful for the wise to know.
- J R R Tolkien
Advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill.
- J R R Tolkien
And here you will stay, Gandalf the Grey, and rest from journeys. For I am Saruman the Wise, Saruman the Ring-maker, Saruman of Many Colours!"
"I looked then and saw that his robes, which had seemed white, were not so, but were woven of all colours, and if he moved they shimmered and changed hue so that the eye was bewildered.
- J R R Tolkien
I was talking aloud to myself. A habit of the old: they choose the wisest person present to speak to
- J R R Tolkien
In one thing you have not changed, dear friend," said Aragorn: "you still speak in riddles."
"What? In riddles?" said Gandalf. "No! For I was talking aloud to myself. A habit of the old: they choose the wisest person present to speak to; the long explanations needed by the young are wearying.
- J R R Tolkien
The wise speak only of what they know
- J R R Tolkien
Oft it may be chance that old wives keep in memory word of things that once were heedful for the wise to know.
- J R R Tolkien
Many are the strange chances of the world,' said Mithrandir, 'and help oft shall come from the hands of the weak when the Wise falter.
- J R R Tolkien
It is best for the wise man not to seem wise.
- Aeschylus
The wisest of the wise may err.
- Aeschylus
True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance.
- Akhenaton
The lips of the wise are as the doors of a cabinet; no sooner are they opened, but treasures are poured out before thee.
- Akhenaton
The wise men understood that this natural world is only an image and a copy of paradise. The existence of this world is simply a guarantee that there exists a world that is perfect. God created the world so that, through its visible objects, men could understand his spiritual teachings and the marvels of his wisdom.
- Paulo Coelho
The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.
- Paulo Coelho
The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love.
- Paulo Coelho
I have met convicted child molesters before. They don't waer badges or brands or tattoos announcing their vice. It's hidden under a soft, grandfatherly smile; it's tucked in the pocket of a buttoned down shirt. They look the rest of us, and that's what makes it so frightening - to know that these beasts move among us, and we are none the wisest.
They have girlfriends and wives who have loved them, unaware.
- Jodi Picoult
We live in a beautiful and wonderful world, Demi, and the more you now about it the wiser and the better you will be.
- Louisa May Alcott
It's genius simmering, perhaps. I'll let it simmer, and see what comes of it, he said, with a secret suspicion all the while that it wasn't genius, but something far more common. Whatever it was, it simmered to some purpose, for he grew more and more discontented with his desultory life, began to long for some real and earnest work to go at, soul and body, and finally came to the wise conclusion that everyone who loved music was not a composer.
- Louisa May Alcott
...to the inspiration of necessity, we owe half the wise, beautiful, and useful blessings of the world.
- Louisa May Alcott
Wealth is certainly a most desirable thing, but poverty has its sunny side, and one of the sweet uses of adversity is the genuine satisfaction which comes from hearty work of head or hand, and to the inspiration of necessity, we owe half the wise, beautiful, and useful blessings of the world.
- Louisa May Alcott
Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.
- Sholom Aleichem
The wisest are the most annoyed at the loss of time.
- Dante Alighieri
In the days of Moses and the prophets such a man would have been counted among the wise men of the land; in the Middle Ages he would have been burned at the stake.
- Hans Christian Anderson
Even a fool knows you can't touch the stars, but it won't keep the wise from trying.
- Harry Anderson
The wise learn many things from their enemies.
- Aristophanes
The wisest have the most authority.
- Plato
Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.
- Plato
The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.
- Plato
But the truth is, O men of Athens, that God only is wise; and by his answer he intends to show that the wisdom of men is worth little or nothing; he is not speaking of Socrates, he is only using my name by way of illustration, as if he said, He, O men, is the wisest, who, like Socrates, knows that his wisdom is in truth worth nothing.
- Plato
O dear Pan and all the other gods of this place, grant that I may be beautiful inside. Let all my external possessions be in friendly harmony with what is within. May I consider the wise man rich. As for gold, let me have as much as a moderate man could bear and carry with him.
- Plato
The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
- Aristotle
Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives - choice, not chance, determines your destiny.
- Aristotle
The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life - knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.
- Aristotle
History doesn't remember gardens.
...
You forgot the wise administrators, those who kept the peace, those who brought prosperity. You needn't feel embarrassed, though. So did history.
- Andrew Ashling
If we would know true love and understanding one for another, we must realize that communication is more than a sharing of words. It is the wise sharing of emotions, feelings, and concerns. It is the sharing of oneself totally.
- Marvin J Ashton
The practice of thrift is not outdated. We must discipline ourselves to live within our incomes even if it means going without or making do. The wise person can distinguish...between basic needs and extravagant wants. Some find budgeting extremely painful, but I promise you, it is never fatal.
- Marvin J Ashton
Surely of all 'rights of man', this right of the ignorant man to be guided by the wiser, to be, gently or forcibly, held in the true course by him, is the indisputablest.
- Thomas Carlyle
There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.
- Francis Bacon
To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution.
- Marcus Aurelius
The happiness of those who want to be popular depends on others; the happiness of those who seek pleasure fluctuates with moods outside their control; but the happiness of the wise grows out of their own free acts.
- Marcus Aurelius
The wisest and the best of men, nay, the wisest and best of their actions, may be rendered ridiculous by a person whose first object in life is a joke.
- Jane Austen
And to say that society ought to be governed by the opinion of the wisest and best, though true, is useless. Whose opinion is to decide who are the wisest and best?
- Thomas Babington Macaulay
The wisest prophets make sure of the event first.
- Horace Walpole
The wisest among my race understand that agitations of social equality is the extremist folly, and that progress in the enjoyment of all privileges that will come to us must be the result of severe and constant struggle rather than of artificial forcing.
- Booker T Washington
Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Behold! I am weary of my wisdom, like the bee that has gathered too much honey; I need hands outstretched to take it from me. I wish to spread it and bestow it, until the wise have once more become joyous in their folly, and the poor happy in their riches.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
The wisest man would be the one richest in contradictions, who has, as it were, antennae for all types of men---as well as his great moments of grand harmony---a rare accident even in us! A sort of planetary motion---
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Even the wisest among you is only a conflict and hybrid of plant and ghost.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Any fool can see the limits of seeing, but not even the wisest know the limits of knowing. Thus is ignorance rendered invisible, and are all Men made fools.
- R Scott Bakker
Ah, on what little things does happiness depend! I have read all that the wise men have written, and all the secrets of philosophy are mine, yet for want of a red rose is my life made wretched.
- Oscar Wilde
The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.
- Oscar Wilde
In examinations the foolish ask questions that the wise cannot answer.
- Oscar Wilde
The public is wiser than the wisest critic.
- George Bancroft
You know, bud, I don't know you from Adam, but that's my baby sister you're hanging on to. So I'm thinking the wisest course of action for you is to let her go and introduce yourself. Pronto. (Rain)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.
- Matsuo Basho
It took me a long time, my lifetime so to speak, to realise that the colour of an eye half seen, or the source of some distant sound, are closer to Giudecca in the hell of unknowing than the existence of God, or the origins of protoplasm, or the eistence of self, and even less worthy than these to occupy the wise, It's a bit much, a lifetime, to achieve this consoling conclusion, it doesn't leave you much time to profit by it.
- Samuel Beckett
Your deepest, darkest sins and your shameful secrets are simply irrelevant when it comes to the counterintuitive, ecstatic announcement of the gospel. So are your goodness, your rightness, your church attendance, and all of the wise, moral, mature decisions you have made and actions you have taken.
- Rob Bell
It was three o'clock in the morning the wisest and most accursed hour of the clock. But sometimes it sets us free.
- L M Montgomery
When an invincible weapon deals with an impenetrable defense,
war is useless. The wisest decision is to ceasefire and do synergy.
- Toba Beta
The wise man reveals more than words spoken.
- Toba Beta
Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
- Ambrose Bierce
Only a fool learns from his own mistakes. The wise man learns from the mistakes of others.
- Otto Von Bismarck
The Wise are silent, the Foolish speak, and children are thus led astray.
- Algernon Blackwood
Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.
- John Dryden
Of all knowledge, the wise and good seek mostly to know themselves.
- William Shakespeare
Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.
- William Shakespeare
We, ignorant of ourselves,
Beg often our own harms, which the wise powers
Deny us for our good; so find we profit
By losing of our prayers.
- William Shakespeare
Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise.
- William Shakespeare
O, if I say, you look upon this verse,
When I perhaps compounded am with clay,
Do not so much as my poor name rehearse,
But let your love even with my life decay;
Lest the wise world should look into your moan,
And mock you with me after I am gone.
- William Shakespeare
Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.
- Samuel Johnson
Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
- Samuel Johnson
I had to make water " I said. It was the classic female excuse and no male in recorded history had ever questioned it.
"I see " the Inspector said and left it at that.
Later I would have a quick piddle behind the caravan for insurance purposes. No one would be any the wiser.
- Alan Bradley
To think that the wise are not capable of folly is not wise.
- Chris Brady
At first glance, the key and the lock it fits may seem very different," Sazed said. "Different in shape, different in function, different in design. The man who looks at them without knowledge of their true nature might think them opposites, for one is meant to open, and the other to keep closed. Yet, upon closer examination he might see that without one, the other becomes useless. The wise man then sees that both lock and key were created for the same purpose.
- Brandon Sanderson
Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.
- Andre Breton
I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours.
- John F Kennedy
We begin from the recognition that all beings cherish happiness and do not want suffering. It then becomes both morally wrong and pragmatically unwise to pursue only one's own happiness oblivious to the feelings and aspirations of all others who surround us as members of the same human family. The wiser course is to think of others when pursuing our own happiness.
- Dalai Lama
Your negative actions will always speak over top of your kind words and only fools listen where the wise watch.
- Tara Brown
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
The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored.
- Jean De La Bruyere
Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.
- Jean De La Fontaine
The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve.
- Buddha
In honesty you have to admit to a wise man that prayer is not for the wise, not for the prudent, not for the sophisticated. Instead it is for those who recognize that in face of their deepest needs, all their wisdom is quite helpless. It is for those who are willing to persist in doing something that is both childish and crucial.
- Frederick Buechner
What the wise do in the beginning, fools do in the end.
- Warren Buffett
Never ask how. At that moment, it felt like the wisest advice I had ever gotten.
- Neal Shusterman
Question (from a reader) : Will the Wise Goddess Athena overthrow Zeus and become the ruler of Olympus?
Athena's answer : What an interesting idea... No, just kidding, Dad. Put away the lightning bolt.
- Rick Riordan
It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.
- Mahatma Gandhi
The wise musicians are those who play what they can master.
- Duke Ellington
Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Divide and rule, the politician cries; unite and lead, is watchword of the wise.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
The wise do not argue therefrom, that the desires of the woman, as long as she is young and strong, are not as real and urgent of those of the man.
- Richard Francis Burton
The wisest use of American strength is to advance freedom.
- George W Bush
I might not have any magic available to me, but that didn't make me any less of a wizard, one of the magi, the wise. That's the true power of a wizard.
- Jim Butcher
That which is not, shall never be; that which is, shall never cease to be. To the wise, these truths are self-evident.
- William Hazlitt
Use, do not abuse; the wise man arrange things so. I flee Epictetus and Petronius alike. Neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.
- Voltaire
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
The wisest thing in the world is to cry out before you are hurt. It is no good to cry out after you are hurt; especially after you are mortally hurt. People talk about the impatience of the populace; but sound historians know that most tyrannies have been possible because men moved too late. it is often essential to resist a tyranny before it exists.
- Gilbert K Chesterton
Our age is obviously the Nonsense Age; the wiser sort of nonsense being provided for the children and the sillier sort of nonsense for the grown-up people.
- Gilbert K Chesterton
The wise man will follow a star, low and large and fierce in the heavens, but the nearer he comes to it the smaller and smaller it will grow,
till he finds it the humble lantern over some little inn or stable. Not till we know the high things shall we know how lovely they are.
- Gilbert K Chesterton
Have you never heard what the wise man say : all of the future exists in the past.
- Truman Capote
The wise are not wise because they make no mistakes. They are wise because they correct their mistakes as soon as they recognize them.
- Orson Scott Card
The wisest man I ever knew taught me something I never forgot. And although I never forgot it, I never quite memorized it either. So what I'm left with is the memory of having learned something very wise that I can't quite remember.
- George Carlin
Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital. The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket.
- Andrew Carnegie
The wise man draws more advantage from his enemies than the fool from his friends.
- Benjamin Franklin
The fool inherits, but the wise must get.
- William Cartwright
Doctrine is well enough for the wise, Jean; but the miracle is something we can hold in our hands and love.
- Willa Cather
The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.
- Chanakya
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
God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.
- Pierre Charron
A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones that need the advice.
- Bill Cosby
The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.
- Geoffrey Chaucer
stop now before i kill you
a word to the wise from your friend
PENNYWISE
- Stephen King
The wise man thinks about his troubles only when there is some purpose in doing so; at other times he thinks about other things, or, if it is night, about nothing at all.
- Bertrand Russell
With the wise man, what he has does not cease to be enjoyable because some one else has something else. Envy, in fact, is one form of vice, partly moral, partly intellectual, which consists in seeing things never in themselves but only in their relations
- Bertrand Russell
The wise man will be as happy as circumstances permit, and if he finds the contemplation of the universe painful beyond a point, he will contemplate something else instead.
- Bertrand Russell
The wise man in the storm prays God not for safety from danger but for deliverance from fear.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The wise man through an excess of wisdom is made a fool.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
sorrow makes us all children again-destroys all differences of intellect. the wisest know nothing.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Heaven walks among us ordinarily muffled in such triple or tenfold disguises that the wisest are deceived and no one suspects the days to be gods.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The soul is no traveller; the wise man stays at home, and when his necessities, his duties, on any occasion call him from his house, or into foreign lands, he is at home still, and shall make men sensible by the expression of his countenance, that he goes the missionary of wisdom and virtue, and visits cities and men like a sovereign, and not like an interloper or a valet.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
The only real difference between a wise man and a fool, Moore knew, was that the wise man tended to make more serious mistakesand only because no one trusted a fool with really crucial decisions; only the wise had the opportunity to lose battles, or nations.
- Tom Clancy
Now the reason the enlightened prince and the wise general conquer the enemy whenever they move and their achievements surpass those of ordinary men is foreknowledge.
- Sun Tzu
It is only the enlightened ruler and the wise general who will use the highest intelligence of the army for the purposes of spying, and thereby they achieve great results.
- Sun Tzu
The skilful employer of men will employ the wise man, the brave man, the covetous man, and the stupid man.
- Sun Tzu
If I determine the enemy's disposition of forces while I have no perceptible form, I can concentrate my forces while the enemy is fragmented. The pinnacle of military deployment approaches the formless: if it is formless, then even the deepest spy cannot discern it nor the wise make plans against it.
- Sun Tzu
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
A word to the wise is infuriating.
- Hunter S Thompson
The fool's crime is the crime that is found out and the wise man's crime is the crime that is not found out.
- Wilkie Collins
Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.
- Charles Caleb Colton
There is this difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he that thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.
- Charles Caleb Colton
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
Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.
- Confucius
Not to discuss with a man worthy of conversation is to waste the man. To discuss with a man not worthy of conversation is to waste words. The wise waste neither men nor words.
- Confucius
When the wise man points at the Moon, the idiot looks at the finger.
- Confucius
When a person should be spoken with, and you don't speak with them, you lose them. When a person shouldn't be spoken with and you speak to them, you waste your breath. The wise do not lose people, nor do they waste their breath.
- Confucius
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
The book exists for us perchance which will explain our miracles and and reveal new ones. The at present unutterable things we may find somewhere uttered. These same questions that disturb and puzzle and confound us have in their turn occurred to all the wise men; not one has been omitted; and each has answered them, according to his ability, by his words and his life.
- Henry David Thoreau
I do believe in simplicity. It is astonishing as well as sad, how many trivial affairs even the wisest thinks he must attend to in a day; how singular an affair he thinks he must omit. When the mathematician would solve a difficult problem, he first frees the equation of all incumbrances, and reduces it to its simplest terms. So simplify the problem of life, distinguish the necessary and the real. Probe the earth to see where your main roots run.
- Henry David Thoreau
For it has come about, by the wise economy of nature, that our modern spirit can almost dispense with language; the commonest expressions do, since no expressions do; hence the most ordinary conversation is often the most poetic, and the most poetic is precisely that which cannot be written down.
- Virginia Woolf
The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations.
- William Feather
The wise make proverbs, and fools repeat them.
- Isaac Disraeli
A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.
- Roald Dahl
The fools among us are presented to be wise and the wise among us are presented to be fools.
- Santosh Kalwar
A struggling writer, 'I get hundreds of rejection letters each day. I am depressed with this life, Can you please help?' The Wise-man, 'No, I can't help. It is good that you are being rejected. The more you get rejection letters, the better your writing will become. Always remember, first they will reject you, then they... ignore you, then they will laugh at you and finally, they may accept you.
- Santosh Kalwar
The wise are above books.
- Samuel Daniel
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
I think Willim Shakespeare was the wisest human being I ever heard of. To be perfectly frank though, that's not saying much. We are impossibly conceited animals, and actually dumb as heck. Ask any teacher. You don't even have to ask a teacher. Ask anybody. Dogs and cats are smarter than we are.
- Kurt Vonnegut
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"The wises men tell us that everything, sooner or later, changes. And all change commences with a specific moment. We say to ourselves, "I wont do this again, I must become different." And we succeed -- eventually.
- Frank Delaney
The wise man belongs to all countries, for the home of a great soul is the whole world
- Democritus
There is one safeguard known generally to the wise, which is an advantage and security to all, but especially to democracies as against despots - suspicion.
- Demosthenes
Even the wise appear foolish before one who brings peace to another.
- Phoenix Desmond
The weak have remedies, the wise have joys; superior wisdom is superior bliss.
- Edward Young
When I look upon seamen, men of science and philosophers, man is the wisest of all beings; when I look upon priests and prophets nothing is as contemptible as man.
- Diogenes
The fool wonders, the wise man asks.
- Benjamin Disraeli
How terrible is wisdom when it brings no profit to the wise.
- Arthur Conan Doyle
The thing that impressed me then as now about New York... was the sharp, and at the same time immense, contrast it showed between the dull and the shrewd, the strong and the weak, the rich and the poor, the wise and the ignorant... the strong, or those who ultimately dominated, were so very strong, and the weak so very, very weak - and so very, very many.
- Theodore Dreiser
Who then is free? The wise man who can command himself.
- Horace
From that time forth he believed that the wise man is one who never sets himself apart from other living things, whether they have speech or not, and in later years he strove long to learn what can be learned, in silence, from the eyes of animals, the flight of birds, the great slow gestures of trees.
- Ursula K Le Guin
The wise needn't ask, the fool asks in vain.
- Ursula K Le Guin
We are the wise.
Do not envy us
We who are too wise to draw near
the fire
Lest we get burned;
We who are too wise to love
Lest love should vanish and we be
hurt.
We are the wise.
Do not envy us our wisdom
We who are too wise to live
Lest we should die.
- Lois Duncan
The wise say many things, enough to confuse the rest of us
- David Anthony Durham
Oh leave the Wise our measures to collate. One thing at least is certain, light has weight. One thing is certain and the rest debate. Light rays, when near the Sun, do not go straight.
- Arthur Eddington
God doesn't expect us to be a walking encyclopedia of biblical knowledge. He wants us to know Him, to be in a relationship with Him. This means not only hearing but allowing our understanding of God to change the way we live. Like the wise builder who laid the foundation of his house on the rock, we learn to let our knowledge of God change us.
- Tyler Edwards
David was caught in a very uncomfortable position; however, he seemed to grasp a deep understanding of the unfolding drama in which he had been caught. He seemed to understand something that few of even the wisest men of his day understood. Something that in our day, when men are wiser still, even fewer understand.
And what was that?
God did not have - but wanted very much to have - men and women who would live in pain.
God wanted a broken vessel.
- Gene Edwards
...he seemed to grasp a deep understanding of the unfolding drama in which he had been caught. He seemed to understand something that few of even the wisest men of his day understood...God wanted a broken vessel.
- Gene Edwards
But let the wise be warned against too great readiness at explanation: it multiplies the sources of mistake, lengthening the sum for reckoners sure to go wrong.
- George Eliot
It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.
- Epictetus
Appearances to the mind are of four kinds. Things either are what they appear to be; or they neither are, nor appear to be; or they are, and do not appear to be; or they are not, and yet appear to be. Rightly to aim in all these cases is the wise man's task.
- Epictetus
The wise man who has become accustomed to necessities knows better how to share with others than how to take from them, so great a treasure of self-sufficiency has he found.
- Epicurus
The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool.
- Epicurus
Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life.
- Epicurus
If the wise men mounted their camels now, they could escape, no question. But Balthazar hadn't ridden into Bethlehem to run. He'd come to kill every last one of them, or die trying.
- Seth Grahame Smith
The wisest men follow their own direction.
- Euripides
The good and the wise lead quiet lives.
- Euripides
Where are the leaders?' Sapphique asked.
'In the fortresses,' the swan replied.
'And the poets?'
'Lost in dreams of other worlds.'
'And the craftsmen?'
'Forging machines to challenge the darkness.'
'And the Wise, who made the world?'
The swan lowered its black neck sadly.
'Dwindled to crones and sorcerers in towers.
- Catherine Fisher
My idea is always to reach my generation. The wise writer writes for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmasters of ever afterward.
- F Scott Fitzgerald
Sometimes, life threw up problems that even the wisest, most trusted mentor couldn't solve for you. It was part of the pain of growing up.
And having to stand by and watch was part of being a mentor.
- John Flanagan
The conflict between right and fact has endured since the origins of society. To bring the duel to an end, to consolidate the pure ideal with the human reality, to make the right peacefully interpenetrate the fact, and the fact the right, this is the work of the wise.
- Victor Hugo
The wise man is he who knows when and how to stop
- Victor Hugo
The wise man does not grow old, but ripens.
- Victor Hugo
The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself a fool.
- Anatole France
Talk is free but the wise man chooses when to spend his words.
- Neil Gaiman
The wise man knows when to keep silent. Only the fool tells all he knows.
- Neil Gaiman
Pretence about anything sometimes deceives the wisest and shrewdest man, but, however cunningly it is hidden, a child of the meanest capacity feels it and is repelled by it.
- Leo Tolstoy
Some think that by preparing to deal with crises you make them more likely. I think the wiser judgment is the contrary. In this area at least, if you want peace or stability, it's better to prepare for war or instability.
- Timothy Geithner
The philosophy of the wisest man that ever existed, is mainly derived from the act of introspection.
- William Godwin
The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
- Baltasar Gracian
Luck can be assisted. It is not all chance with the wise.
- Baltasar Gracian
Perhaps you considered yourself an oracle,
Mouthpiece of the dead, or of some god or other.
Thirty years now I have labored
To dredge the silt from your throat.
I am none the wiser.
- Sylvia Plath
There are people in this world who can wear whale masks and people who cannot, and the wise know to which group they belong.
- Tom Robbins
Libraries keep the records on behalf of all humanity. the unique and the absurd, the wise and the fragments of stupidity.
- Vartan Gregorian
The wise man regulates his conduct by the theories both of religion and science. But he regards these theories not as statements of ultimate fact but as art-forms.
- John B S Haldane
The sexes were made for each other, and only in the wise and loving union of the two is the fullness of health and duty and happiness to be expected.
- William Hall
Word to the wise writer...never underestimate your secondary characters! But watch them...they sneak off with stuff.
- Ka Hancock
- Mark Twain
The wise thing is for us diligently to train ourselves to lie thoughtfully, judiciously; to lie with a good object, and not an evil one; to lie for others' advantage, and not our own; to lie healingly, charitably, humanely, not cruelly, hurtfully, maliciously; to lie gracefully and graciously, not awkwardly and clumsily; to lie firmly, frankly, squarely, with head erect, not haltingly, tortuously, with pusillanimous mien, as being ashamed of our high calling.
- Mark Twain
Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge.
- Mark Twain
All this very plausible reasoning does not convince me, as it has not convinced the wisest of our Statesmen, that our ancestors erred in laying it down as an axiom of policy that the toleration of Irregularity is incompatible with the safety of the State.
- Edwin A Abbott
Travel brings wisdom only to the wise. It renders the ignorant more ignorant than ever.
- Joe Abercrombie
Elves seldom give unguarded advice, for advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill.
- J R R Tolkien
Pay heed to the tales of old wives. It may well be that they alone keep in memory what it was once needful for the wise to know.
- J R R Tolkien
Advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill.
- J R R Tolkien
And here you will stay, Gandalf the Grey, and rest from journeys. For I am Saruman the Wise, Saruman the Ring-maker, Saruman of Many Colours!"
"I looked then and saw that his robes, which had seemed white, were not so, but were woven of all colours, and if he moved they shimmered and changed hue so that the eye was bewildered.
- J R R Tolkien
I was talking aloud to myself. A habit of the old: they choose the wisest person present to speak to
- J R R Tolkien
In one thing you have not changed, dear friend," said Aragorn: "you still speak in riddles."
"What? In riddles?" said Gandalf. "No! For I was talking aloud to myself. A habit of the old: they choose the wisest person present to speak to; the long explanations needed by the young are wearying.
- J R R Tolkien
The wise speak only of what they know
- J R R Tolkien
Oft it may be chance that old wives keep in memory word of things that once were heedful for the wise to know.
- J R R Tolkien
Many are the strange chances of the world,' said Mithrandir, 'and help oft shall come from the hands of the weak when the Wise falter.
- J R R Tolkien
It is best for the wise man not to seem wise.
- Aeschylus
The wisest of the wise may err.
- Aeschylus
True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance.
- Akhenaton
The lips of the wise are as the doors of a cabinet; no sooner are they opened, but treasures are poured out before thee.
- Akhenaton
The wise men understood that this natural world is only an image and a copy of paradise. The existence of this world is simply a guarantee that there exists a world that is perfect. God created the world so that, through its visible objects, men could understand his spiritual teachings and the marvels of his wisdom.
- Paulo Coelho
The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.
- Paulo Coelho
The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love.
- Paulo Coelho
I have met convicted child molesters before. They don't waer badges or brands or tattoos announcing their vice. It's hidden under a soft, grandfatherly smile; it's tucked in the pocket of a buttoned down shirt. They look the rest of us, and that's what makes it so frightening - to know that these beasts move among us, and we are none the wisest.
They have girlfriends and wives who have loved them, unaware.
- Jodi Picoult
We live in a beautiful and wonderful world, Demi, and the more you now about it the wiser and the better you will be.
- Louisa May Alcott
It's genius simmering, perhaps. I'll let it simmer, and see what comes of it, he said, with a secret suspicion all the while that it wasn't genius, but something far more common. Whatever it was, it simmered to some purpose, for he grew more and more discontented with his desultory life, began to long for some real and earnest work to go at, soul and body, and finally came to the wise conclusion that everyone who loved music was not a composer.
- Louisa May Alcott
...to the inspiration of necessity, we owe half the wise, beautiful, and useful blessings of the world.
- Louisa May Alcott
Wealth is certainly a most desirable thing, but poverty has its sunny side, and one of the sweet uses of adversity is the genuine satisfaction which comes from hearty work of head or hand, and to the inspiration of necessity, we owe half the wise, beautiful, and useful blessings of the world.
- Louisa May Alcott
Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.
- Sholom Aleichem
The wisest are the most annoyed at the loss of time.
- Dante Alighieri
In the days of Moses and the prophets such a man would have been counted among the wise men of the land; in the Middle Ages he would have been burned at the stake.
- Hans Christian Anderson
Even a fool knows you can't touch the stars, but it won't keep the wise from trying.
- Harry Anderson
The wise learn many things from their enemies.
- Aristophanes
The wisest have the most authority.
- Plato
Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.
- Plato
The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.
- Plato
But the truth is, O men of Athens, that God only is wise; and by his answer he intends to show that the wisdom of men is worth little or nothing; he is not speaking of Socrates, he is only using my name by way of illustration, as if he said, He, O men, is the wisest, who, like Socrates, knows that his wisdom is in truth worth nothing.
- Plato
O dear Pan and all the other gods of this place, grant that I may be beautiful inside. Let all my external possessions be in friendly harmony with what is within. May I consider the wise man rich. As for gold, let me have as much as a moderate man could bear and carry with him.
- Plato
The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
- Aristotle
Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives - choice, not chance, determines your destiny.
- Aristotle
The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life - knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.
- Aristotle
History doesn't remember gardens.
...
You forgot the wise administrators, those who kept the peace, those who brought prosperity. You needn't feel embarrassed, though. So did history.
- Andrew Ashling
If we would know true love and understanding one for another, we must realize that communication is more than a sharing of words. It is the wise sharing of emotions, feelings, and concerns. It is the sharing of oneself totally.
- Marvin J Ashton
The practice of thrift is not outdated. We must discipline ourselves to live within our incomes even if it means going without or making do. The wise person can distinguish...between basic needs and extravagant wants. Some find budgeting extremely painful, but I promise you, it is never fatal.
- Marvin J Ashton
Surely of all 'rights of man', this right of the ignorant man to be guided by the wiser, to be, gently or forcibly, held in the true course by him, is the indisputablest.
- Thomas Carlyle
There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.
- Francis Bacon
To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution.
- Marcus Aurelius
The happiness of those who want to be popular depends on others; the happiness of those who seek pleasure fluctuates with moods outside their control; but the happiness of the wise grows out of their own free acts.
- Marcus Aurelius
The wisest and the best of men, nay, the wisest and best of their actions, may be rendered ridiculous by a person whose first object in life is a joke.
- Jane Austen
And to say that society ought to be governed by the opinion of the wisest and best, though true, is useless. Whose opinion is to decide who are the wisest and best?
- Thomas Babington Macaulay
The wisest prophets make sure of the event first.
- Horace Walpole
The wisest among my race understand that agitations of social equality is the extremist folly, and that progress in the enjoyment of all privileges that will come to us must be the result of severe and constant struggle rather than of artificial forcing.
- Booker T Washington
Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Behold! I am weary of my wisdom, like the bee that has gathered too much honey; I need hands outstretched to take it from me. I wish to spread it and bestow it, until the wise have once more become joyous in their folly, and the poor happy in their riches.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
The wisest man would be the one richest in contradictions, who has, as it were, antennae for all types of men---as well as his great moments of grand harmony---a rare accident even in us! A sort of planetary motion---
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Even the wisest among you is only a conflict and hybrid of plant and ghost.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Any fool can see the limits of seeing, but not even the wisest know the limits of knowing. Thus is ignorance rendered invisible, and are all Men made fools.
- R Scott Bakker
Ah, on what little things does happiness depend! I have read all that the wise men have written, and all the secrets of philosophy are mine, yet for want of a red rose is my life made wretched.
- Oscar Wilde
The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.
- Oscar Wilde
In examinations the foolish ask questions that the wise cannot answer.
- Oscar Wilde
The public is wiser than the wisest critic.
- George Bancroft
You know, bud, I don't know you from Adam, but that's my baby sister you're hanging on to. So I'm thinking the wisest course of action for you is to let her go and introduce yourself. Pronto. (Rain)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.
- Matsuo Basho
It took me a long time, my lifetime so to speak, to realise that the colour of an eye half seen, or the source of some distant sound, are closer to Giudecca in the hell of unknowing than the existence of God, or the origins of protoplasm, or the eistence of self, and even less worthy than these to occupy the wise, It's a bit much, a lifetime, to achieve this consoling conclusion, it doesn't leave you much time to profit by it.
- Samuel Beckett
Your deepest, darkest sins and your shameful secrets are simply irrelevant when it comes to the counterintuitive, ecstatic announcement of the gospel. So are your goodness, your rightness, your church attendance, and all of the wise, moral, mature decisions you have made and actions you have taken.
- Rob Bell
It was three o'clock in the morning the wisest and most accursed hour of the clock. But sometimes it sets us free.
- L M Montgomery
When an invincible weapon deals with an impenetrable defense,
war is useless. The wisest decision is to ceasefire and do synergy.
- Toba Beta
The wise man reveals more than words spoken.
- Toba Beta
Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
- Ambrose Bierce
Only a fool learns from his own mistakes. The wise man learns from the mistakes of others.
- Otto Von Bismarck
The Wise are silent, the Foolish speak, and children are thus led astray.
- Algernon Blackwood
Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.
- John Dryden
Of all knowledge, the wise and good seek mostly to know themselves.
- William Shakespeare
Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.
- William Shakespeare
We, ignorant of ourselves,
Beg often our own harms, which the wise powers
Deny us for our good; so find we profit
By losing of our prayers.
- William Shakespeare
Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise.
- William Shakespeare
O, if I say, you look upon this verse,
When I perhaps compounded am with clay,
Do not so much as my poor name rehearse,
But let your love even with my life decay;
Lest the wise world should look into your moan,
And mock you with me after I am gone.
- William Shakespeare
Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.
- Samuel Johnson
Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
- Samuel Johnson
I had to make water " I said. It was the classic female excuse and no male in recorded history had ever questioned it.
"I see " the Inspector said and left it at that.
Later I would have a quick piddle behind the caravan for insurance purposes. No one would be any the wiser.
- Alan Bradley
To think that the wise are not capable of folly is not wise.
- Chris Brady
At first glance, the key and the lock it fits may seem very different," Sazed said. "Different in shape, different in function, different in design. The man who looks at them without knowledge of their true nature might think them opposites, for one is meant to open, and the other to keep closed. Yet, upon closer examination he might see that without one, the other becomes useless. The wise man then sees that both lock and key were created for the same purpose.
- Brandon Sanderson
Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.
- Andre Breton
I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours.
- John F Kennedy
We begin from the recognition that all beings cherish happiness and do not want suffering. It then becomes both morally wrong and pragmatically unwise to pursue only one's own happiness oblivious to the feelings and aspirations of all others who surround us as members of the same human family. The wiser course is to think of others when pursuing our own happiness.
- Dalai Lama
Your negative actions will always speak over top of your kind words and only fools listen where the wise watch.
- Tara Brown
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
The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored.
- Jean De La Bruyere
Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.
- Jean De La Fontaine
The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve.
- Buddha
In honesty you have to admit to a wise man that prayer is not for the wise, not for the prudent, not for the sophisticated. Instead it is for those who recognize that in face of their deepest needs, all their wisdom is quite helpless. It is for those who are willing to persist in doing something that is both childish and crucial.
- Frederick Buechner
What the wise do in the beginning, fools do in the end.
- Warren Buffett
Never ask how. At that moment, it felt like the wisest advice I had ever gotten.
- Neal Shusterman
Question (from a reader) : Will the Wise Goddess Athena overthrow Zeus and become the ruler of Olympus?
Athena's answer : What an interesting idea... No, just kidding, Dad. Put away the lightning bolt.
- Rick Riordan
It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.
- Mahatma Gandhi
The wise musicians are those who play what they can master.
- Duke Ellington
Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Divide and rule, the politician cries; unite and lead, is watchword of the wise.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
The wise do not argue therefrom, that the desires of the woman, as long as she is young and strong, are not as real and urgent of those of the man.
- Richard Francis Burton
The wisest use of American strength is to advance freedom.
- George W Bush
I might not have any magic available to me, but that didn't make me any less of a wizard, one of the magi, the wise. That's the true power of a wizard.
- Jim Butcher
That which is not, shall never be; that which is, shall never cease to be. To the wise, these truths are self-evident.
- William Hazlitt
Use, do not abuse; the wise man arrange things so. I flee Epictetus and Petronius alike. Neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.
- Voltaire
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
The wisest thing in the world is to cry out before you are hurt. It is no good to cry out after you are hurt; especially after you are mortally hurt. People talk about the impatience of the populace; but sound historians know that most tyrannies have been possible because men moved too late. it is often essential to resist a tyranny before it exists.
- Gilbert K Chesterton
Our age is obviously the Nonsense Age; the wiser sort of nonsense being provided for the children and the sillier sort of nonsense for the grown-up people.
- Gilbert K Chesterton
The wise man will follow a star, low and large and fierce in the heavens, but the nearer he comes to it the smaller and smaller it will grow,
till he finds it the humble lantern over some little inn or stable. Not till we know the high things shall we know how lovely they are.
- Gilbert K Chesterton
Have you never heard what the wise man say : all of the future exists in the past.
- Truman Capote
The wise are not wise because they make no mistakes. They are wise because they correct their mistakes as soon as they recognize them.
- Orson Scott Card
The wisest man I ever knew taught me something I never forgot. And although I never forgot it, I never quite memorized it either. So what I'm left with is the memory of having learned something very wise that I can't quite remember.
- George Carlin
Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital. The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket.
- Andrew Carnegie
The wise man draws more advantage from his enemies than the fool from his friends.
- Benjamin Franklin
The fool inherits, but the wise must get.
- William Cartwright
Doctrine is well enough for the wise, Jean; but the miracle is something we can hold in our hands and love.
- Willa Cather
The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.
- Chanakya
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
God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.
- Pierre Charron
A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones that need the advice.
- Bill Cosby
The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.
- Geoffrey Chaucer
stop now before i kill you
a word to the wise from your friend
PENNYWISE
- Stephen King
The wise man thinks about his troubles only when there is some purpose in doing so; at other times he thinks about other things, or, if it is night, about nothing at all.
- Bertrand Russell
With the wise man, what he has does not cease to be enjoyable because some one else has something else. Envy, in fact, is one form of vice, partly moral, partly intellectual, which consists in seeing things never in themselves but only in their relations
- Bertrand Russell
The wise man will be as happy as circumstances permit, and if he finds the contemplation of the universe painful beyond a point, he will contemplate something else instead.
- Bertrand Russell
The wise man in the storm prays God not for safety from danger but for deliverance from fear.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The wise man through an excess of wisdom is made a fool.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
sorrow makes us all children again-destroys all differences of intellect. the wisest know nothing.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Heaven walks among us ordinarily muffled in such triple or tenfold disguises that the wisest are deceived and no one suspects the days to be gods.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The soul is no traveller; the wise man stays at home, and when his necessities, his duties, on any occasion call him from his house, or into foreign lands, he is at home still, and shall make men sensible by the expression of his countenance, that he goes the missionary of wisdom and virtue, and visits cities and men like a sovereign, and not like an interloper or a valet.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
The only real difference between a wise man and a fool, Moore knew, was that the wise man tended to make more serious mistakesand only because no one trusted a fool with really crucial decisions; only the wise had the opportunity to lose battles, or nations.
- Tom Clancy
Now the reason the enlightened prince and the wise general conquer the enemy whenever they move and their achievements surpass those of ordinary men is foreknowledge.
- Sun Tzu
It is only the enlightened ruler and the wise general who will use the highest intelligence of the army for the purposes of spying, and thereby they achieve great results.
- Sun Tzu
The skilful employer of men will employ the wise man, the brave man, the covetous man, and the stupid man.
- Sun Tzu
If I determine the enemy's disposition of forces while I have no perceptible form, I can concentrate my forces while the enemy is fragmented. The pinnacle of military deployment approaches the formless: if it is formless, then even the deepest spy cannot discern it nor the wise make plans against it.
- Sun Tzu
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
A word to the wise is infuriating.
- Hunter S Thompson
The fool's crime is the crime that is found out and the wise man's crime is the crime that is not found out.
- Wilkie Collins
Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.
- Charles Caleb Colton
There is this difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he that thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.
- Charles Caleb Colton
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
Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.
- Confucius
Not to discuss with a man worthy of conversation is to waste the man. To discuss with a man not worthy of conversation is to waste words. The wise waste neither men nor words.
- Confucius
When the wise man points at the Moon, the idiot looks at the finger.
- Confucius
When a person should be spoken with, and you don't speak with them, you lose them. When a person shouldn't be spoken with and you speak to them, you waste your breath. The wise do not lose people, nor do they waste their breath.
- Confucius
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
The book exists for us perchance which will explain our miracles and and reveal new ones. The at present unutterable things we may find somewhere uttered. These same questions that disturb and puzzle and confound us have in their turn occurred to all the wise men; not one has been omitted; and each has answered them, according to his ability, by his words and his life.
- Henry David Thoreau
I do believe in simplicity. It is astonishing as well as sad, how many trivial affairs even the wisest thinks he must attend to in a day; how singular an affair he thinks he must omit. When the mathematician would solve a difficult problem, he first frees the equation of all incumbrances, and reduces it to its simplest terms. So simplify the problem of life, distinguish the necessary and the real. Probe the earth to see where your main roots run.
- Henry David Thoreau
For it has come about, by the wise economy of nature, that our modern spirit can almost dispense with language; the commonest expressions do, since no expressions do; hence the most ordinary conversation is often the most poetic, and the most poetic is precisely that which cannot be written down.
- Virginia Woolf
The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations.
- William Feather
The wise make proverbs, and fools repeat them.
- Isaac Disraeli
A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.
- Roald Dahl
The fools among us are presented to be wise and the wise among us are presented to be fools.
- Santosh Kalwar
A struggling writer, 'I get hundreds of rejection letters each day. I am depressed with this life, Can you please help?' The Wise-man, 'No, I can't help. It is good that you are being rejected. The more you get rejection letters, the better your writing will become. Always remember, first they will reject you, then they... ignore you, then they will laugh at you and finally, they may accept you.
- Santosh Kalwar
The wise are above books.
- Samuel Daniel
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
I think Willim Shakespeare was the wisest human being I ever heard of. To be perfectly frank though, that's not saying much. We are impossibly conceited animals, and actually dumb as heck. Ask any teacher. You don't even have to ask a teacher. Ask anybody. Dogs and cats are smarter than we are.
- Kurt Vonnegut
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"The wises men tell us that everything, sooner or later, changes. And all change commences with a specific moment. We say to ourselves, "I wont do this again, I must become different." And we succeed -- eventually.
- Frank Delaney
The wise man belongs to all countries, for the home of a great soul is the whole world
- Democritus
There is one safeguard known generally to the wise, which is an advantage and security to all, but especially to democracies as against despots - suspicion.
- Demosthenes
Even the wise appear foolish before one who brings peace to another.
- Phoenix Desmond
The weak have remedies, the wise have joys; superior wisdom is superior bliss.
- Edward Young
When I look upon seamen, men of science and philosophers, man is the wisest of all beings; when I look upon priests and prophets nothing is as contemptible as man.
- Diogenes
The fool wonders, the wise man asks.
- Benjamin Disraeli
How terrible is wisdom when it brings no profit to the wise.
- Arthur Conan Doyle
The thing that impressed me then as now about New York... was the sharp, and at the same time immense, contrast it showed between the dull and the shrewd, the strong and the weak, the rich and the poor, the wise and the ignorant... the strong, or those who ultimately dominated, were so very strong, and the weak so very, very weak - and so very, very many.
- Theodore Dreiser
Who then is free? The wise man who can command himself.
- Horace
From that time forth he believed that the wise man is one who never sets himself apart from other living things, whether they have speech or not, and in later years he strove long to learn what can be learned, in silence, from the eyes of animals, the flight of birds, the great slow gestures of trees.
- Ursula K Le Guin
The wise needn't ask, the fool asks in vain.
- Ursula K Le Guin
We are the wise.
Do not envy us
We who are too wise to draw near
the fire
Lest we get burned;
We who are too wise to love
Lest love should vanish and we be
hurt.
We are the wise.
Do not envy us our wisdom
We who are too wise to live
Lest we should die.
- Lois Duncan
The wise say many things, enough to confuse the rest of us
- David Anthony Durham
Oh leave the Wise our measures to collate. One thing at least is certain, light has weight. One thing is certain and the rest debate. Light rays, when near the Sun, do not go straight.
- Arthur Eddington
God doesn't expect us to be a walking encyclopedia of biblical knowledge. He wants us to know Him, to be in a relationship with Him. This means not only hearing but allowing our understanding of God to change the way we live. Like the wise builder who laid the foundation of his house on the rock, we learn to let our knowledge of God change us.
- Tyler Edwards
David was caught in a very uncomfortable position; however, he seemed to grasp a deep understanding of the unfolding drama in which he had been caught. He seemed to understand something that few of even the wisest men of his day understood. Something that in our day, when men are wiser still, even fewer understand.
And what was that?
God did not have - but wanted very much to have - men and women who would live in pain.
God wanted a broken vessel.
- Gene Edwards
...he seemed to grasp a deep understanding of the unfolding drama in which he had been caught. He seemed to understand something that few of even the wisest men of his day understood...God wanted a broken vessel.
- Gene Edwards
But let the wise be warned against too great readiness at explanation: it multiplies the sources of mistake, lengthening the sum for reckoners sure to go wrong.
- George Eliot
It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.
- Epictetus
Appearances to the mind are of four kinds. Things either are what they appear to be; or they neither are, nor appear to be; or they are, and do not appear to be; or they are not, and yet appear to be. Rightly to aim in all these cases is the wise man's task.
- Epictetus
The wise man who has become accustomed to necessities knows better how to share with others than how to take from them, so great a treasure of self-sufficiency has he found.
- Epicurus
The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool.
- Epicurus
Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life.
- Epicurus
If the wise men mounted their camels now, they could escape, no question. But Balthazar hadn't ridden into Bethlehem to run. He'd come to kill every last one of them, or die trying.
- Seth Grahame Smith
The wisest men follow their own direction.
- Euripides
The good and the wise lead quiet lives.
- Euripides
Where are the leaders?' Sapphique asked.
'In the fortresses,' the swan replied.
'And the poets?'
'Lost in dreams of other worlds.'
'And the craftsmen?'
'Forging machines to challenge the darkness.'
'And the Wise, who made the world?'
The swan lowered its black neck sadly.
'Dwindled to crones and sorcerers in towers.
- Catherine Fisher
My idea is always to reach my generation. The wise writer writes for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmasters of ever afterward.
- F Scott Fitzgerald
Sometimes, life threw up problems that even the wisest, most trusted mentor couldn't solve for you. It was part of the pain of growing up.
And having to stand by and watch was part of being a mentor.
- John Flanagan
The conflict between right and fact has endured since the origins of society. To bring the duel to an end, to consolidate the pure ideal with the human reality, to make the right peacefully interpenetrate the fact, and the fact the right, this is the work of the wise.
- Victor Hugo
The wise man is he who knows when and how to stop
- Victor Hugo
The wise man does not grow old, but ripens.
- Victor Hugo
The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself a fool.
- Anatole France
Talk is free but the wise man chooses when to spend his words.
- Neil Gaiman
The wise man knows when to keep silent. Only the fool tells all he knows.
- Neil Gaiman
Pretence about anything sometimes deceives the wisest and shrewdest man, but, however cunningly it is hidden, a child of the meanest capacity feels it and is repelled by it.
- Leo Tolstoy
Some think that by preparing to deal with crises you make them more likely. I think the wiser judgment is the contrary. In this area at least, if you want peace or stability, it's better to prepare for war or instability.
- Timothy Geithner
The philosophy of the wisest man that ever existed, is mainly derived from the act of introspection.
- William Godwin
The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
- Baltasar Gracian
Luck can be assisted. It is not all chance with the wise.
- Baltasar Gracian
Perhaps you considered yourself an oracle,
Mouthpiece of the dead, or of some god or other.
Thirty years now I have labored
To dredge the silt from your throat.
I am none the wiser.
- Sylvia Plath
There are people in this world who can wear whale masks and people who cannot, and the wise know to which group they belong.
- Tom Robbins
Libraries keep the records on behalf of all humanity. the unique and the absurd, the wise and the fragments of stupidity.
- Vartan Gregorian
The wise man regulates his conduct by the theories both of religion and science. But he regards these theories not as statements of ultimate fact but as art-forms.
- John B S Haldane
The sexes were made for each other, and only in the wise and loving union of the two is the fullness of health and duty and happiness to be expected.
- William Hall
Word to the wise writer...never underestimate your secondary characters! But watch them...they sneak off with stuff.
- Ka Hancock
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