Top 1200 Wise Quotes & Sayings

To be wise doesn't always mean to have a wrinkled face and sparkly eyes. To be wise means to be still inside.

We can learn much from wise words, little from wisecracks, and less from wise guys.

We are the wise. Do not envy us— We who are too wise to draw near the fire Lest we get burned; We who are too wise to love Lest love should vanish and we be hurt. We are the wise. Do not envy us our wisdom— We who are too wise to live Lest we should die.

In the West the wise are usually thought of as leaders. In the East, the wise are very often though of as followers.

Friendship of the wise is good; a wise enemy is better than a foolish friend.

There is a lot of territory out there still to explore TV-wise, show-wise, movie-wise, everything.

No one in my family had ever done anything acting-wise or entertainment industry-wise.

Cato used to assert that wise men profited more by fools than fools by wise men; for that wise men avoided the faults of fools, but that fools would not imitate the good examples of wise men.

Let men be wise by instinct if they can, but when this fails be wise by good advice.

The difference between a 'wise guy' and a wise man is plenty!

One is more apt to become wise by doing fool things than by reading wise sayings.

I find that with period pieces, you're sort of able to really take advantage of what's around you because prop-wise, wardrobe-wise and location-wise, it's all so specific due to that time.

The man who walks with wise men becomes wise himself.

If it was wise, manly, and patriotic for us to establish a free government, it is equally wise to attend to the necessary means of its preservation.

In most movies, they show you somebody who is perfect looks-wise, and skills-wise, and the movie doesn't give you a choice.

In New Mexico, my local church did a nativity play, and I was cast as Wise Man #3. Of course, Wise Man #3 had no damn lines. Wise Man #1 had all the lines! I stood there thinking, 'I could do that role so much better!' From that moment on, I knew I wanted to be an actor.

Many would be wise if they did not think themselves wise.

Where wise actions are the fruit of life, wise discourse is the pollination.

The wise find pleasure in water; the virtuous find pleasure in hills. The wise are active; the virtuous are tranquil. The wise are joyful; the virtuous are long-lived.

Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise.

O' youth do not disobey the words of the wise. Its better than fortune if the wise-one gives you advice.

Oppression makes wise men mad; but the distemper is still the madness of the wise, which is better than the sobriety of fools.

The wise man is wise in vain who cannot be wise to his own advantage. [Lat., Nequicquam sapere sapientem, qui ipse sibi prodesse non quiret.]

Be wise, because the world needs more wisdom. And if you cannot be wise, pretend to be someone who is wise, and then just behave like they would.

I'm very positive - music-wise, production-wise and life-wise.

A wise quote can only change a wise man! Therefore, wise sayings are for the wise men, not for the fools! The sunflowers turn their face toward the Sun, the fools, toward the darkness!

Being a senior doesn't automatically make one wise but the wise & foolish alike have things to teach us.

The only real difference between a wise man and a fool, Moore knew, was that the wise man tended to make more serious mistakes—and only because no one trusted a fool with really crucial decisions; only the wise had the opportunity to lose battles, or nations.

The wise are not wise because they make no mistakes. They are wise because they correct their mistakes as soon as they recognize them.

The wise man delights in water, the Good man delights in mountains. For the wise move; but the Good stay still. The wise are happy; but the good secure.

Lots of old people don't become wise, but you don't get wise unless you age.

Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.

We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.

They're mutually incompatible I feel; being a wise thief and a wise father.

If thou desire to be held wise, be so wise as to hold thy tongue.

If you are wise, be wise; keep what goods the gods provide you.

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.

None of us was born knowing or wise; but men become wise by consideration, observation, experience.

There's no greater sign of being a poor philosopher and wise man than wanting all of life to be wise and philosophical.

I'm going forward with my plans for life. I'm looking at things not only basketball-wise, but personal-wise.

Wise is what you want to be. Smart is easy compared to wise.

Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own: [I hate a sage who is not wise for himself]

Before, you are wise; after, you are wise. In between you are otherwise.

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

Wise kings generally have wise counselors; and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one.

Far best is he who is himself all-wise, and he, too, good who listens to wise words; But whoso is not wise or lays to hear another's wisdom is a useless man.

He who walks with the wise grows wise, but a companion of fools suffers harm.

By associating with wise people you will become wise yourself.

Wise men are not wise at all hours, and will speak five times from their taste or their humor, to once from their reason.

It is ignorance that is at times incomprehensible to the wise; for instance, he may not see 'the positive person' or 'the negative person' in a black and white way as many people do. A wise man may not understand it because, as a catalyst of wisdom, but not wise in his own eyes, even he can learn from and give back to fools. To think that an individual has absolutely nothing to offer to the table is counter-intuitively what the wise man considers to be 'the ignorance of hopelessness'.

The wise people are in New York because the foolish went there first, that's the way the wise men make a living.

The wise man must be wise before, not after, the event.

Advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill.

To the wise man, to the wise nation, the mistakes of the past are the torches of the present.

History never recorded this phrase: 'The Mass of Wise.' Because the wise is not too abundant to form masses!

I was born wise. Street-wise, people-wise, self-wise. This wisdom was my birthright.

Much has seen said of the wisdom of old age. Old age is wise, I grant, for itself, but not wise for the community. It is wise in declining new enterprises, for it has not the power nor the time to execute them; wise in shrinking from difficulty, for it has not the strength to overcome it; wise in avoiding danger, for it lacks the faculty of ready and swift action, by which dangers are parried and converted into advantages. But this is not wisdom for mankind at large, by whom new enterprises must be undertaken, dangers met, and difficulties surmounted.

NIRVANA- In the Buddhist religion, a state of pleasurable annihilation awarded to the wise, particularly to those wise enough to understand it.

Every man wishes to be wise, and they who cannot be wise are almost always cunning.

Moderately wise each one should be, Not overwise, for a wise man's heart Is seldom glad (Norse Wisdom)