Wise Quotations | Page 2

My upbringing is why I am the person I am today. I have very wise parents.

Perfect reason flees all extremity, and leads one to be wise with sobriety.

People can do all kinds of things that maybe aren't wise in hindsight because of jealousy.

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.

Though lust do masque in ne'er so strange disguise she's oft found witty, but is never wise.

We must first pray, that God would make us wise; before we can wish, he would make us happy.

It is only when the people become ignorant and corrupt, when they degenerate into a populace, that they are incapable of exercising the sovereignty. Usurpation is then an easy attainment, and a usurper soon found. The people themselves become the willing instruments of their own debasement and ruin. Let us, then, look to the great cause, and endeavor to preserve it in full force. Let us by all wise and constitutional measures promote intelligence among the people as the best means of preserving our liberties.

The wise man knows how to run his life so that contemplation is possible.

There's a certain type of character that you can't help but come in contact with growing up and living in Brooklyn and Long Island. A certain mixture of moxie, heart, and a wise guy sense of humor.

Where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise.

Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons.

A fool can throw a stone in a pond that 100 wise men can not get out.

Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.

Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life.

What could be more beautiful than a dear old lady growing wise with age? Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it.

Women have more energy, for a greater number of years, than men. Men, as they age, become either more wise or more stupid.

Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

A wise traveler never depreciates their own country.

The Supreme Court has ruled that they cannot have a nativity scene in Washington, D.C. This wasn't for any religious reasons. They couldn't find three wise men and a virgin.

The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored.

If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't.

Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win.

Great deeds give choice of many tales. Choose a slight tale, enrich it large, and then let wise men listen

All men have an equal right to the free development of their faculties; they have an equal right to the impartial protection of the state; but it is not true, it is against all the laws of reason and equity, it is against the eternal nature of things, that the indolent man and the laborious man, the spendthrift and the economist, the imprudent and the wise, should obtain and enjoy an equal amount of goods.

A wise man should so write (though in words understood by all men) that wise men only should be able to commend him.

The fool inherits, but the wise must get.

The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense.

The past is our definition. We may strive with good reason to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it. But we will escape it only by adding something better to it.

When we become a really mature, grown-up, wise society, we will put teachers at the center of the community, where they belong. We don't honor them enough, we don't pay them enough.

I often feel like I have this spirit living inside of me, always dressing in like short mini skirts... but then I start to discover myself. So there are eight spirits, mischievous ones, sad ones, handsome ones, wise ones, and crazy ones.

In a full heart there is room for everything, and in an empty heart there is room for nothing.

The ant is knowing and wise, but he doesn't know enough to take a vacation.

Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.

A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice.

There are peaks and valleys in anything and that is especially true for the music business. It is very inconsistent. But if you are wise, you can let those downs really bring you to another level of your personality.

There are some persons in this world, who, unable to give better proof of being wise, take a strange delight in showing what they think they have sagaciously read in mankind by uncharitable suspicions of them.

Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men?

I've always loved doing covers. Some artists don't like covers. Some listeners don't like covers. But I love them. It gives you a new perspective production-wise. It's easier for me, if I'm starting a new record, I like to produce a few songs that aren't mine just so it frees me up not to worry about it so much.

My view on politics is much more grassroots oriented; it's not old boy network oriented, so I tend to, you know, come at it a little bit stronger, a little bit more street-wise, if you will. That's rubbed some feathers the wrong way.

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

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.

Make the wise man within you your living ideal.

Music-wise, I listen to everything. Leonard Cohen, Randy Newman - I guess I like a lot of '70s music.

The highest point of philosophy is to be both wise and simple; this is the angelic life.

Legislation can neither be wise nor just which seeks the welfare of a single interest at the expense and to the injury of many and varied interests.

Public opinion is no more than this: what people think that other people think.

I would rather die a meaningful death than to live a meaningless life.

Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

A wise unselfishness is not a surrender of yourself to the wishes of anyone, but only to the best discoverable course of action.

Conservation means the wise use of the earth and its resources for the lasting good of men

Listening is such a simple act. It requires us to be present, and that takes practice, but we don't have to do anything else. We don't have to advise, or coach, or sound wise. We just have to be willing to sit there and listen.

If you are energy-efficient and water-wise at home, then take all your good habits abroad with you.

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

We get wise by asking questions, and even if these are not answered we get wise, for a well-packed question carries its answer on its back as a snail carries its shell.

When we looked at the life cycle in our 40s, we looked to old people for wisdom. At 80, though, we look at other 80-year-olds to see who got wise and who not. Lots of old people don't get wise, but you don't get wise unless you age.

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.

We all have that inner voice that is wise, even if we don't always follow it. It's that voice I'm trying to listen to.

To speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do is style.

Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise.

Make men wise, and by that very operation you make them free. Civil liberty follows as a consequence of this; no usurped power can stand against the artillery of opinion.

It takes a wise man to recognize a wise man.

Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.

Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.

Today, certain people file for bankruptcy, businesses and individuals, and it no longer has the stigma it once had. Now it's almost considered wise, a way to regroup and come back again.

What I want veterans to know is that VA is here to care for them. VA is a good system - health care wise, safety wise - highly comparable to any other system out there. Our oversight reviews tell us that. I'm very comfortable in the quality of our system.

The wise musicians are those who play what they can master.

I understand that it would be smart, career-wise, to line up something, but it wouldn't be smart for my personal life or my sanity. Some people thrive when they're working. I thrive when I'm hanging out with my friends and doing yoga.

The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.

The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

Zeal is fit for wise men, but flourishes chiefly among fools.

The miracle is this: the more we share the more we have.

I love that period, between the '20s and the '60s. I love doing period pieces, and those eras are my favorite period in time, music wise, and the elegance and the way of being.

The wise man reads both books and life itself.

A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.

Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.

It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.

The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool.

Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.

It is a good rule never to see or talk to the man whose words have wrung your heart, or helped it, just as it is wise not to look down too closely at the luminous glow which sometimes shines on your path on a summer night, if you would not see the ugly worm below.

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.

Women desire six things: They want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous, obedient to wife, and lively in bed.

For if the mystery concealed of old is made manifest to the Apostles through the prophetic writings, and if the prophets, being wise men, understood what proceeded from their own mouths, then the prophets knew what was made manifest to the Apostles.

The wisest prophets make sure of the event first.

There's a lot of films that have relatively rigid road maps because they have a script and others that are less rigid because they have less of a script, like 'Elephant.' The road map becomes more interpretive, maybe, than one with a detailed script. Editing-wise, they all have their problems.

Unfortunately, I was not wise enough to listen to her advice, and hastily married. In a few weeks, I had occasion to repent of the step I had taken, as the report proved true - a report which I thought justified, and indeed required, our separation.

Wise is he who enjoys the show offered by the world.

Fishing is a hard job. Fishing at night. Rain. Day, night. You have to be wise and smart. And quick.

A wise man fights to win, but he is twice a fool who has no plan for possible defeat.

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.

We need to seek wise leaders who will seek common ground among Americans instead of dividing us further for political gain. As citizens, we must embrace those who embrace ideas, thoughtfulness, civility and kindness to others no matter what their political beliefs.

When the world lacks muscular and wise American leadership, it devolves into total chaos, which, in turn, produces unspeakable evils.

Poetry is innocent, not wise. It does not learn from experience, because each poetic experience is unique.

If somebody is not on the same page with me humor wise, I can't give them that.

Most human beings have enough sense to know that if they work in a city that has a serious smog problem, it's wise to either stay indoors or at least wear a mask that will filter out the poison. But cigarette smokers have their own little concentrated toxic smog pack that they don't avoid.

Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action.

If I'm a commodity, it wouldn't be a wise idea to buy stock in me - although, in the long run, maybe I'm a slow growth investment.

Call him wise whose actions, words, and steps are all a clear because to a clear why.

I'm moving into that eldership age, you know? I'm at the 'wise woman' age where it's not about learning, but utilizing the information that I have in a way that serves other people. That's a high calling and it's a great responsibility.