Top 1200 Very Wise Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

Ruling is hard. This was maybe my answer to Tolkien, whom, as much as I admire him, I do quibble with. Lord of the Rings had a very medieval philosophy: that if the king was a good man, the land would prosper. We look at real history and it's not that simple... Real-life kings had real-life problems to deal with... My people who are trying to rule don't have an easy time of it. Just having good intentions doesn't make you a wise king.

The wind in a man's face makes him wise.

The only competition worthy of a wise man is with himself.

Some people are more nice than wise.

Wise man also fears a weak enemy.

He is truly wise who gains wisdom from another's mishap.

To succeed in the world we must look foolish but be wise.

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

Make the wise man within you your living ideal.

Mark Watson and Paul Sinha have been exactly the same - very, very clever, and very, very thick.

Everything is roughness, except for the circles. How many circles are there in nature? Very, very few. The straight lines. Very shapes are very, very smooth. But geometry had laid them aside because they were too complicated.

A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart.

Juggling is very, very straightforward; very, very black and white; you're manipulating objects, not people. And that's always appealed to me.

How terrible is wisdom, when it brings no profit to the man that's wise

A truly wise man does not play leapfrog with a unicorn.

It is easier to look wise than to talk wisely.

The teaching is very rewarding, and very time-consuming, and very exhausting. But it's wonderful. The community here at NYU is very precious to me.

Folk music is very honest, it's very humble, it's very organic, and the voice is exactly that. And so I'm very excited to put the two together.

It would be wise for the U.S. private sector to stay away from Iran.

To swear is neither brave, polite, nor wise.

I used to feel more straight for certain months and then just think about boys all the time I'm attracted to women who are very, very boyish. I'm not very big on big mammaries. I have a tendency to be attracted to very, very boyish girls. And usually very feminine men.

Fooles bite one another, but wise-men agree together.

A dead father's counsel, a wise son heedeth.

I hold those wise who know how to be happy.

A wise man loses nothing, if he but save himself.

In peace, a wise man makes preparations for war.

The beasts are very wise, Their mouths are clean of lies, They talk one to the other, Bullock to bullock brothers Resting after their labors, Each in stall with his neighbors, But man with goad and whip, Breaks up their fellowship, Shouts in their silky ears Filling their soul with fears. When he has plowed the land, He says: "they understand." But the beasts in stall together, Freed from the yoke and tether, Say as the torn flank smoke: "Nay, 'twas the whip that spoke."

The community has no bribe that will tempt a wise man.

Let us be poised, wise and our own today.

I am not calling 'Aravindha' a wise movie because it's a blockbuster.

Time ripens all things; no man is born wise.

The secret of the wise man is to learn from the errors of others.

When I was very young I was very shy but at the same time I was very open cause I was very curious so I wanted to try many things.

I look forward to growing old and wise and audacious.

Those alone are wise who know how to love.

From ignorance our comfort flows, the only wretched are the wise

A statue lies hid in a block of marble, and the art of the statuary only clears away the superfluous matter and removes the rubbish. The figure is in the stone; the sculptor only finds it. What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul. The philosopher, the saint, or the hero,--the wise, the good, or the great man,--very often lies hid and concealed in a plebeian, which a proper education might have disinterred, and have brought to light.

California is many things, and it is a harbinger of what this country will become if illegal immigration isn't stopped. You're gonna have a very rich, very powerful minority of elites - very, very tiny - and they're gonna live in a very few, small, gated enclaves.

No wise man ever thought that a traitor should be trusted.

The world is a very troubled, very chaotic place. It's a very cold place. It's a very unjust and unfair place in many ways. [As a moviemaker] I have very limited ability to have an impact over all that.

I'm always curious what the world is trying to tell story wise.

The follies of the wise man are known to himself, but hidden from the world.

To be wise and eke to love, Is granted scarce to gods above.

A wise skepticism is the first attribute of a good critic.

Words are the counters of wise men, but the money of fools.

Putting our heads in the sand is not a wise strategy.

They would need to be already wise, in order to love wisdom.

I'm very lucky, I've got two very loving parents, still very much together, and always been very supportive.

We study history not to be clever in another time, but to be wise always.

Wise people know that all their money belongs to God.

To be over much facetious is the accomplishment of courtiers and blemish of the wise.

The most realistic distinction between the investor and the speculator is found in their attitude toward stock-market movements. The speculator's primary interest lies in anticipating and profiting from market fluctuations. The investor's primary interest lies in acquiring and holding suitable securities at suitable prices. Market movements are important to him in a practical sense, because they alternately create low price levels at which he would be wise to buy and high price levels at which he certainly should refrain from buying and probably would be wise to sell.

Tinted Distances is the achievement of a wise and discerning poet.

Fashion, n. A despot whom the wise ridicule and obey.

In examinations the foolish ask questions that the wise cannot answer.

He is no wise man who will quit a certainty for an uncertainty.

I always see my wife as the clever one, as the wise one in the family.

Fools give you reasons and wise men never try.

The wise person doesn't ask, "What have I achieved?" but rather, "What have I contributed?"

The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.