Top 1200 Good Wise Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

It is much easier to make good men wise, than to make bad men good.

Gnomic wisdom, however, is notoriously polychrome, and proverbs depend for their truth entirely on the occasion they are applied to. Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.

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

A childlike mind in its simplicity practises that science of good to which the wise may be blind.

Heaven is in everything: follow the light, hide in the cloudiness and begin in what is. Do this and your understanding will be like not understanding and your wisdom will be like not being wise. By not being wise you will become wise later.

A wise man does not waste so good a commodity as lying for naught.

No accidents are so unlucky [bad] but that the wise may draw some advantage [good] from them.

People who are wise, good, smart, skillful, or hardworking don't need politics, they have jobs.

A good writer is an expert on nothing except himself. And on that subject, if he is wise, he holds his tongue.

Good advice is a wise man's friend, of course; but sometimes it just flies on past, and all you can do is wave.

Knowledge is indivisible. When people grow wise in one direction, they are sure to make it easier for themselves to grow wise in other directions as well. On the other hand, when they split up knowledge, concentrate on their own field, and scorn and ignore other fields, they grow less wise - even in their own field.

Fate is the friend of the good, the guide of the wise, the tyrant of the foolish, the enemy of the bad.

Let no person think lightly of good, saying in his or her heart, "it will not benefit me." As by the falling of raindrops a jar of water is filled, so the wise person becomes full of good, even though he or she collects it little by little.

A man cannot be wise enough to be a great artist without being wise enough to wish to be a philosopher.

One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter.

The wise policymaker doesn't assume that any policy adopted in good faith will have good results. Instead, he or she weighs the likely outcome of any new policy based on facts and experience - not sentiments and dreams.

Honestly, as a rapper, the Freshman list is definitely the biggest milestone. Culture-wise - anything-wise - that's the biggest stamp.

States have always needed intellectuals to con the public into believing that its rule is wise, good, and inevitable

Whoever is not too wise is wise. [Lat., Quisquis plus justo non sapit, ille sapit.]

The wise leader settles for good work and then lets others have the floor.

Heaven sends down its good and evil symbols and wise men act accordingly.

Do not be wise in words - be wise in deeds.

To claim power over what you do not understand is not wise, nor is the end of it likely to be good.

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

How I wish that somewhere there existed an island for those who are wise and of good will.

I don't have a great deal of stress job-wise in my life, and that feels good.

If there is a good and wise God, then there also exists a progress of humanity toward perfection.

God cannot be referred to as 'good,' 'better,' or 'best' because He is above all things. If a man says that God is wise, the man is lying because anything that is wise can become wiser. Anything that a man might say about God is incorrect... The best a man can do is to remain silent...The true master knows that if he had a God he could understand, he would never hold Him to be God.

Sweet songs of youth, the wise, the meeting of all wisdom To believe in the good in man.

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

There is no man ... however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived a life, the memory of which is so unpleasant to him that he would gladly expunge it. And yet he ought not entirely to regret it, because he cannot be certain that he has indeed become a wise man -- so far as it is possible for any of us to be wise -- unless he has passed through all the fatuous or unwholesome incarnations by which that ultimate stage must be preceded.

Where have all the good men gone, and where are all the gods? Where's the street-wise Hercules, to fight the rising odds?

I wish it (Christianity) were more productive of good works ... I mean real good works ... not holy day keeping, sermon-hearing ... or making long prayers, filled with flatteries and compliments despised by wise men, and much less capable of pleasing the Deity.

If the advice of a fool for once happens to be good, it requires a wise man to carry it out.

Choose a good disagreeable friend, if you be wise--a surly, steady, economical, rigid fellow.

It is better to be wise, and not to seem so, than to seem wise, and not be so; yet men, for the most part, desire the contrary.

A wise and good man will turn examples of all sorts to his own advantage. The good he will make his patterns, and strive to equal or excel them. The bad he will by all means avoid.

All my songs instinctively erupted from my guitar and lyrical visions followed the spirit of the music, bot image wise and rhythmical cadence wise. It remains one of life's greatest joys to this day.

Every evil is some good spelt backwards, and in it the wise know how to read Wisdom.

To become wise you have to want to experience certain experiences, and so to run into their open jaws. This is very dangerous, tobe sure; many a "wise man" has been eaten up in doing so.

That is ever the difference between the wise and the unwise: the latter wonders at what is unusual; the wise man wonders at the usual.

Wise men are not wise at all times.

Why did the wise guys always accuse other people of being wise guys?

A wise quote may not be famous and a famous quote may not be wise! Stick to the wise as the other one is just a bubble!

This fellow is wise enough to play the fool; And to do that well craves a kind of wit: He must observe their mood on whom he jests, The quality of persons, and the time, And, like the haggard, check at every feather That comes before his eye. This is a practise As full of labour as a wise man's art For folly that he wisely shows is fit; But wise men, folly-fall'n, quite taint their wit.

He whose wisdom cannot help him, gets no good from being wise.

Who is omnipotent or wise enough to decide each new standard of good taste? Or sensitivity?

Children are the keys of Paradise. They alone are good and wise, because their thoughts, their very lives are prayer.

Is very hard to find, like, a recipe to feel good fitness-wise, tennistically, mentally.

In the common run of mankind, for one that is wise and good you find ten of a contrary character.

Everyone needs a spiritual guide: a minister, rabbi, counselor, wise friend, or therapist. My own wise friend is my dog.

We sat down and talked about who we liked comedy-wise, TV-wise, what made us laugh and what we enjoyed doing. So a lot of our tastes went into 'The Ant and Dec Show.'

A Christian must always be kind, gracious, and wise in order to conquer evil by good.

We cannot expect to be happy always ... by experiencing evil as well as good we become wise.

Remember, you cannot be both young and wise. Young people who pretend to be wise to the ways of the world are mostly just cynics.

A fool despises good counsel, but a wise man takes it to heart.

License they mean when they cry Liberty; For who loves that, must first be wise and good.

It is never wise to try to appear to be more clever than you are. It is sometimes wise to appear slightly less so.

Do nothing rashly; want of circumspection is the chief cause of failure and disaster. Fortune, wise lover of the wise, selects him for her lord who ere he acts reflects.

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