Wise Quotes

I think in a play it's wise to just sit back and watch other actors and be able to shape it from the audience.
Zach Braff

Play, Able, Audience

Be wisely worldly, but not worldly wise.
Francis Quarles

Wisely, Worldly

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

Today, Parents, Person

Everybody gets typecast in movies, but you have to make wise choices. I'd say around 90 percent of movie casting is about the way you look, so you have to fight that. If producers had their way, I'd only be in action films, but I'm interested in a more varied career than that.
Famke Janssen

Movies, Fight, Career

Man is wise and constantly in quest of more wisdom; but the ultimate wisdom, which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls forth faith rather than reason.
Hal Borland

Faith, Time, Wisdom

But I just know from experience that accent wise, even if you're an accent genius, crossing the Atlantic is the hardest thing in the world either way.
Hugh Grant

Experience, Genius, Either

Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.
Diogenes of Sinope

Person, Themselves, Leaders

You're a wise person if you can easily direct your attention to what ever needs it.
Terence

Person, Attention, Needs

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.
William Godwin

Men, Power, Liberty

I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should appear like a fool but be wise.
Charles de Secondat

Fool, Succeed, Appear

I was so shy. I used to cross the street so I wouldn't even have to talk to my relatives, much less strangers. That's not shy, that's wise. But I found that that when you had a journalist's notebook in your hand it wasn't really you, you see.
Geraldine Brooks

Talk, Used, Less

Business wise, I have always learned valuable lessons so I don't regret any decisions I have made.
Kiana Tom

Business, Regret, Made

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

Before, Lips, Doors

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

Words, Him, Why

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.
Maria Monk

True, Thought, Enough

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.
Ray Comfort

Work, Human, Enough

Any fool can say he is wise but only someone wise can admit he is a fool.
Michael Reed

Fool, Someone, Admit

A wise man's question contains half the answer.
Solomon Ibn Gabirol

Question, Half, Answer

A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.
John Churton Collins

Difficult, Easy, Thinks

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.
James McGreevey

Kindness, Political, Others

It takes a wise man to recognize a wise man.
Xenophanes

Takes, Recognize

A wise parent humors the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and advisor when his absolute rule shall cease.
Elizabeth Gaskell

Friend, Become, Desire

Nothing would more contribute to make a man wise than to have always an enemy in his view.
George Savile

Enemy, Nothing, View

The cool thing about music is no one can take music away from you, writing wise.
Darren Criss

Music, Cool, Writing

Politics, like theater, is one of those things where you've got to be wise enough to know when to leave.
Richard Lamm

Politics, Enough, Leave

If slavery, limited as it yet is, now threatens to subvert the Constitution, how can we as wise and prudent statesmen, enlarge its boundaries and increase its influence, and thus increase already impending dangers?
William H. Seward

Influence, Boundaries, Slavery

To speak and to speak well, are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
Ben Jonson

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.
F. H. Bradley

Change, Nature, Sympathy

I'm not trying to sound like I turned into some kind of wise man, but it's nice to realize that your little pocket of the world isn't the whole world.
Chris Kattan

Nice, Trying, Whole

I didn't lead a very wise life, myself, but it was a full one and a grown-up one. You come of age very quickly through shipwreck and disaster.
Philip Dunne

Life, Age, Through

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