Wise Quotes

The greatest misfortune of the wise man and the greatest unhappiness of the fool are based upon convention.
Franz Schubert

Fool, Greatest, Based

Ask a woman's advice, and whatever she advises, Do the very reverse and you're sure to be wise.
Thomas More

Woman, Advice, Whatever

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

Religion, Science, Fact

I do believe that every person has an equal opportunity to be a good and wise judge regardless of their background or life experiences.
Sonia Sotomayor

Life, Good, Judge

Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
Heinrich Heine

The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.
Walter Savage Landor

Writing, Cannot, Riches

Chinese are wise in comprehending without many words what is inevitable and inescapable and therefore only to be borne.
Pearl S. Buck

Words, Inevitable, Borne

I find that it isn't wise to attempt to judge people on their public persona, and even on the music they make. Because I've met so many people whose music I cannot stand, and they're very nice. At the same time, I've met people whose music I've loved, and they're not the person you've invested all this emotion in.
Steven Patrick Morrissey

Music, Time, Nice

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.
Sidney Sheldon

Leadership, Peace, Happiness

The Bible is proved to be a revelation from God, by the reasonableness and holiness of its precepts; all its commands, exhortations, and promises having the most direct tendency to make men wise, holy, and happy in themselves, and useful to one another.
Adam Clarke

God, Men, Happy

Most women are wise to the fact that lots of men love a cat-fight, and thus go out of their way not to give them one.
Julie Burchill

Love, Women, Men

Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.
Edward Young

Fool, Indeed, Speed

Wise it is to comprehend the whole.
Edward Young

Whole, Comprehend

The weak have remedies, the wise have joys; superior wisdom is superior bliss.
Edward Young

Wisdom, Weak, Bliss

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

Fool, Lie, Honest

There is only a finger's difference between a wise man and a fool.
Diogenes of Sinope

Fool, Between, Difference

I am shy to admit that I have followed the advice given all those years ago by a wise archbishop to a bewildered young man: that moments of unbelief 'don't matter,' that if you return to a practice of the faith, faith will return.
A. N. Wilson

Faith, Young, Advice

Whatever the immediate gains and losses, the dangers to our safety arising from political suppression are always greater than the dangers to the safety resulting from political freedom. Suppression is always foolish. Freedom is always wise.
Alexander Meiklejohn

Freedom, Political, Whatever

My dad is such a good man. You know how when you are a child you think your dad is invincible? Well, I still think that - he is so wise and everything I do I ask my dad's advice about first.
Leona Lewis

Good, Dad, Everything

Hip is the sophistication of the wise primitive in a giant jungle.
Norman Mailer

Jungle, Giant, Hip

I had a very wise mother. She always kept books that were my grade level in our house.
Beverly Cleary

Mother, She, Books

A wise governor told me a long time ago, political capital you don't get more of by keeping it. You get it by using it.
Scott Walker

Time, Long, Political

The wise learn many things from their enemies.
Aristophanes

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

Keep, Dead, While

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.
John Selden

Nothing, Times, Dangerous

The wise man... if he would live at peace with others, he will bear and forbear.
Samuel Smiles

Peace, Live, Others

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.
Joan Crawford

Men, Home, Story

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

Enough, Vacation, Knowing

The hallway of every man's life is paced with pictures; pictures gay and pictures gloomy, all useful, for if we be wise, we can learn from them a richer and braver way to live.
Sean O'Casey

Life, Live, Gay

Perhaps I am not as wise as I like to think I am.
Umberto Eco

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