Top 1200 Wise Age Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

We live in an age that reads too much to be wise, and that thinks too much to be beautiful.

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

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.

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

By associating with wise people you will become wise yourself.

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

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

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

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

There is a connection, hard to explain logically but easy to feel, between achievement in public life and progress in the arts. The age of Pericles was also the age of Phidias. The age of Lorenzo de Medici was also the age of Leonardo da Vinci. The age of Elizabeth was also the age of Shakespeare. And the New Frontier for which I campaign in public life, can also be a New Frontier for American art.

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

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

We are wise, wise women. We are giggling girls.

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

The man who walks with wise men becomes wise himself.

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

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.

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!

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

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

The age of the skyscraper is gone. This is the age of the housing project. Which is always a prelude to the age of the cave.

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

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

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

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

Friendship with the wise gets better with time, as a good book gets better with age.

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

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

Stone Age. Bronze Age. Iron Age. We define entire epics of humanity by the technology they use.

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

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

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

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

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

My parents had some problems of their own that put me in a position of having to deal with very grown-up stuff at a very young age. I needed some help with that, therapy-wise.

To the future or to the past, to a time when thought is free, when men are different from one another and do not live alone— to a time when truth exists and what is done cannot be undone: From the age of uniformity, from the age of solitude, from the age of Big Brother, from the age of doublethink — greetings!

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

Youth is full of sport, age's breath is short; youth is nimble, age is lame; Youth is hot and bold, age is weak and cold; Youth is wild, and age is tame.

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.

The wise are wise only because they love.

Starving artist' is acceptable at age 20, suspect at age 40, and problematical at age 60.

Do you want to be wise? Choose wise friends

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

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

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)

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.

Women have more energy, for a greater number of years, than men. Men, as they age, become either more wise or more stupid.

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

It is best for the wise man not to seem wise.

The right of education of the female sex, as it is in a manner everywhere neglected, so it ought to be generally lamented. Most in this depraved later age think a woman learned and wise enough if she can distinguish her husband's bed from another's.

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

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

If we walk with the wise, we will grow wise.

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

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

He that walketh with wise men shall be wise.

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

Our toil must be in silence, and our efforts all in secret; for this enlightened age, when men believe not even what they see, the doubting of wise men would be his greatest strength.