Top 1200 Wise Parents Quotes & Sayings

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

There are all sorts of parents I hate - super-keen parents, PTA parents, and fat parents on a bus.

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.

The best and most popular novelists do not, as a rule, have children in their books at all, and this is wise. Parents are about the only people who are interested in children, and they merely in their own ones.

My parents called me their wise little baby. I was mature when I was 4 or 5. My brother and sister were older, so I was raised by four adults.

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

No wise man can have a contempt for the prejudices of others; and he should even stand in a certain awe of his own, as if they were aged parents and monitors. They may in the end prove wiser than he.

Wise parents offer criticism only when asked, and then minimally.

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

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

I'm actually not making fun of my real parents. I've taken stereotypical traits of my real parents, my aunts, my uncles and parents of every race and put them into these two characters, who are just over-the-top ridiculous and super-alpha parents about everything.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

My parents played by parents, in the second season [of Suits]. We had a Skype scene and they were my real parents. My parents are cartoons. When they come up and visit, they're hilarious. My mother somehow finds a way to get in the way of everything.

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

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

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!

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

When I wrote 'Runaways,' I was a naive kid who thought that all parents were evil. Now that I'm a wise old man with children of my own, I am certain that all parents are evil.

My parents are very proud of my success but still worry, as I'm in a profession where there is no guarantee of work. They have always supported my decision to go into acting, but there have been tough times work-wise.

It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents.

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.

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

What is it that affectionate parents require of their Children; for all their care, anxiety, and toil on their accounts? Only that they would be wise and virtuous, Benevolent and kind.

My parents are so amazing; they're brilliant. We try to take one step at a time and be wise about the decisions we make and keep our values and the things that are important.

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

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.

My upbringing is why I am the person I am today. I have very wise parents.

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

My parents are very proud of my success but still worry, as Im in a profession where there is no guarantee of work. They have always supported my decision to go into acting, but there have been tough times work-wise.

I simply wish my parents would have taught me about speciesism and how it was just as evil as racism, sexism and heterosexism. Sadly, my parents were lied to by their parents who were lied to by their parents and so on.

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

I'm really close to my family, and we talk through things. My parents are so amazing, they're brilliant. We try to take one step at a time and be wise about the decisions we make and keep our values and the things that are important.

Children do not need superhuman, perfect parents. They have always managed with good enough parents: the parents they happened to have.

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

There was a glamorous Nick-and-Nora element to my parents. If you remove one from the other, you're left with neither. But parents are parents.

Wise people, my parents.

God's deepest secrets often miss the wise and prudent and are revealed unto babes. We say, "Children, be like your parents." Jesus said, "Parents, be like your children."

I think, with my cartoons, the parent-like figures are kind of my own archeypes of parents, and they're taken a little bit from my parents and other people's parents, and parents I have read about, and parents I dreamed about, and parents that I made up.

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.

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

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

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.]

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

When my parents died, they both were 47, and they died of complications of different diseases, one being diabetes. I became a diabetic at 17 and went on this road of kind of self-destruction, eating-wise, until I was 40.

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'.

Wise parents know that fighting a teenager, like fighting a riptide, is inviting doom.

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

All parents hope and pray that their children will make wise decisions. Children who are obedient and responsible bring to their parents unending pride and satisfaction.

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.

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

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.

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