Top 1200 Wise Advice Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

The man who walks with wise men becomes wise himself.

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

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

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

I get a lot of advice from my dad about how I should be as a human being, but as an actor, I think he'll give me advice once I'm doing a film for him.

Advice is a peculiar commodity. Those who have the capacity to give good advice generally have too much sense to waste their time trying to get rid of it.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Lots of people will give you advice... and depending upon how well they know you, the advice might be valid or not so valid.

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

I feel there is a great sense of achievement coming from a non-filmy background. But when you are going through a low phase, you don't have anybody to advice you because your parents possibly can't advice you on that.

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

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.

I don't like to give out advice. I make suggestions when I get to know somebody a little bit, but I don't know about advice.

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

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

I have this blanket thing about giving parenting advice to parents, and that's: 'Don't take other people's advice on parenting.'

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

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

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

My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher." - Socrates (470-399 B.C.) "Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't

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

There are two things which a man should scrupulously avoid: giving advice that he would not follow, and asking advice when he is determined to pursue his own opinion.

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

What the world wants iz [sic] good examples, not so mutch advice; advice may be wrong, but examples prove themselves.

I try not to give too much advice, really, because people have to do their things their way. I got lots of advice when I was young, and I ignored most of it - the good and the bad.

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

All your trouble comes from lack of exercise. A man of your strength and constitution ought always to have kept physically active. So don't jibe at the very wise advice that sentences you to one hour's walk a day. You imagine the work of the mind takes place only in the brain; but you're much mistaken. It takes place in the legs as well.

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

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

But I don't think people take bad advice. They've got intuition too, you know. In fact I'd be surprised if they take any advice at all.

By associating with wise people you will become wise yourself.

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

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.

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

Whatever you do, be different - that was the advice my mother gave me, and I can't think of better advice for an entrepreneur. If you're different, you will stand out.

Your most expensive advice is the free advice you receive from your financially struggling friends and relatives.

If the advice is simply to respect yourself and follow the path that you want to follow, that would be the best advice I could ever pass on.

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.

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.

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

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

I had a lot of really terrible advice early in my writing career and I cheesed off people without even knowing it, all the while thinking I was implementing good advice.

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.

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

Reading books everyone died, none became any wise. One who reads the word of Love, only becomes wise.

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

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

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.

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]

Something that is said with the word “YOU” is truly heard by a very few and, that too, listened only of someone who leads a very simple life and regularly says the things refreshingly new because “You” has a tone and texture of an ADVICE, which everyone tries to give than take from others as almost all consider themselves to be WISE.

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

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

The best advice I can give a girl is to keep new relationships private. There is nothing like a handful of well-intentioned 'girlfriend advice' to derail a blooming romance.

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