Wise Quotations | Page 3

A wise woman wishes to be no one's enemy; a wise woman refuses to be anyone's victim.

Without any formal personal finance education or trustworthy resources to tell them otherwise, the majority of people in the 18-to-24-year-old age bracket do not know how to use credit effectively, tackle debt or make wise decisions when it comes to spending.

May none but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof.

Wise anger is like fire from a flint: there is great ado to get it out; and when it does come, it is out again immediately.

The wise make proverbs, and fools repeat them.

I became a Republican when a very wise young lady asked me how I could remain a Democrat when I didn't agree with what they stood for and did agree with what the Republicans supported.

Politics is a place of humble hopes and strangely modest requirements, where all are good who are not criminal and all are wise who are not ridiculously otherwise.

The best way to obtain truth and wisdom is not to ask from books, but to go to God in prayer, and obtain divine teaching.

We never can tell how our lives may work to the account of the general good, and we are not wise enough to know if we have fulfilled our mission or not.

A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn.

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.

There is no one thoroughly despicable. We cannot descend much lower than an idiot; and an idiot has some advantages over a wise man.

Beauty makes idiots sad and wise men merry.

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship.

Getting people to like you is merely the other side of liking them.

We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.

With regard to electric vehicles, I am all for them because most of the incremental electricity needed to run those vehicles will come from gas-fired electric generation. However, I do not believe it is wise for America to substitute dependence on foreign oil for dependence on Chinese batteries.

I go by intuition. Work-wise, that means asking myself if a role will push me outside my comfort zone, challenge me to learn something new.

Man is wise and constantly in quest of more wisdom; but the ultimate wisdom, which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed.

A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.

One of the most untruthful things possible, you know, is a collection of facts, because they can be made to appear so many different ways.

This character in the film, these things that he says which sound like advice and wise things, they are very common for Orientals. It's all the tradition.

The Dalai Lama. He is a very wise man of great inner peace who believes that happiness is the purpose of our lives. Through his teachings and leadership, he continues to make this world a better place in which to live.

It takes a wise man to handle a lie, a fool had better remain honest.

An order of government, established by such an all-wise, powerful being, must be good and perfect, and must be calculated to promote the permanent peace, happiness, and well-being of all his subjects

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.

Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots.

I'm not wise, but the beginning of wisdom is there; it's like relaxing into - and an acceptance of - things.

When I can look life in the eyes, grown calm and very coldly wise, life will have given me the truth, and taken in exchange - my youth.

When complaints are freely heard, deeply considered and speedily reformed, then is the utmost bound of civil liberty attained that wise men look for.

Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.

In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body; then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self.

It's been very nice. I haven't gotten out too much because we've been working a lot but other wise the people have been very nice and I've had a good time.

Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others.

Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.

I'm a golfer, and what are the two sports you can do till you drop? Golf and surfing. They're great for you limber-wise, they're great for you health-wise, and they put you in sweet locations.

Thinking well to be wise: planning well, wiser: doing well wisest and best of all.

I work out every day. It's part of my life. That's one of the benefits of having kids in school full-time. I do it more for my insides than my outside, but the outside gets a nice benefit, too. I feel like my mind is a little quieter when I exercise. And I don't have the best family history heart-wise, so I really try to keep my heart strong.

It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and say the opposite.

There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before.

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.

The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts.

When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.

If you young fellows were wise, the devil couldn't do anything to you, but since you aren't wise, you need us who are old.

Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship. The act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.

Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.

If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.

Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement.

A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.

All our security now depends on the wise decisions and cooperation of our leaders.

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.

A man only becomes wise when he begins to calculate the approximate depth of his ignorance.

How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!

I think Katy B encapsulates young London in a way I never could. She reps London harder than anyone song-wise since Lily Allen.

I have not been that wise. Health I have taken for granted. Love I have demanded, perhaps too much and too often. As for money, I have only realized its true worth when I didn't have it.

Tell me I'm clever, Tell me I'm kind, Tell me I'm talented, Tell me I'm cute, Tell me I'm sensitive, Graceful and wise, Tell me I'm perfect - But tell me the truth.

I wish the government and the Minister of Justice would address these legal and constitutional arguments, but they refuse to. They want Canadians to go blindly into their brave new world, but it is not wise for a society to move blindly in any direction.

I want to state upfront, unequivocally and without doubt: I do not believe that any racial, ethnic or gender group has an advantage in sound judging. I do believe that every person has an equal opportunity to be a good and wise judge, regardless of their background or life experiences.

The modern horror audience is wise to our tricks this lets it in on the gag.

He was a wise man who originated the idea of God.

Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.

To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.

The wise learn many things from their enemies.

Curiosity is one of the great secrets of happiness.

That was my choice at that time, and I still say Nixon was a great president. A very beautiful and wise man.

It is perfectly possible to live a very moral life without a belief in God, and I think it's perfectly possible to live a life peppered with ill-doing and believe in God.

Ignoring fame was my rebellion, in a funny way. I was insistent on being normal and doing normal things. It probably wasn't advisable to go to college in America and room with a complete stranger. And it probably wasn't wise to share a bathroom with eight other people in a coed dorm. Looking back, that was crazy.

There is a way to look at the past. Don't hide from it. It will not catch you if you don't repeat it.

I don't have the best family history heart-wise, so I really try to keep my heart strong.

We want a state wise in its contemplation - just in its actions - and moderate in the reach of government into our lives.

It is strange how often a heart must be broken before the years can make it wise.

O wise man! Give your wealth only to the worthy and never to others. The water of the sea received by the clouds is always sweet.

Don't follow any advice, no matter how good, until you feel as deeply in your spirit as you think in your mind that the counsel is wise.

It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.

Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning.

Dogs are wise. They crawl away into a quiet corner and lick their wounds and do not rejoin the world until they are whole once more.

You ask: what is the meaning or purpose of life? I can only answer with another question: do you think we are wise enough to read God's mind?

Why should I ask the wise men: Whence is my beginning? I am busy with the thought: Where will be my end?

Recently I heard a 'wise guy' story that I had a party at my home for twenty-five men. It's an interesting story, but I don't know twenty-five men I'd want to invite ta a party.

Job-wise, I did have a moment of panic that I should have been a doctor a few years ago, but I hate when people vomit.

No mortal man, moreover is wise at all moments.

Stimulation-wise, I might be a little bit addicted when it comes to pushing my body to extremes.

Mitch and I have known each other for such a long time, and we're both so pleased to be given this opportunity at this point in our lives to play characters that we've never really had a chance to play before. It's a great gift. Plus we're wise enough to appreciate it.

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.

It is wise for us to forget our troubles, there are always new ones to replace them.

The dead keep their secrets, and in a while we shall be as wise as they - and as taciturn.

It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it may happen that those who need sympathy the most often attract it the least.

I never think of myself as wise. I think of myself as possessing a critical intelligence which I intend to allow to operate.

He that is not handsome at 20, nor strong at 30, nor rich at 40, nor wise at 50, will never be handsome, strong, rich or wise.

During the 2008 election, I made clear to the Obama campaign that I don't think it's wise for me to force my personal political agenda on anyone.

The wise man is he who knows the relative value of things.

By not caring too much about what people think, I'm able to think for myself and propagate ideas which are very often unpopular. And I succeed.

Nothing is as dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is to be preferred.

Now this relaxation of the mind from work consists on playful words or deeds. Therefore it becomes a wise and virtuous man to have recourse to such things at times.

Liverpool has always made me brave, choice-wise. It was never a city that criticised anyone for taking a chance.

Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.

What a circus act we women perform every day of our lives. Look at us. We run a tightrope daily, balancing a pile of books on the head. Baby-carriage, parasol, kitchen chair, still under control. Steady now! This is not the life of simplicity but the life of multiplicity that the wise men warn us of.

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.

It is a wise man that does know the contented man is never poor, whilst the discontented man is never rich.