Top 1200 Wise Sayings Quotes & Sayings

One of the best sayings in tennis and sport is that pressure is a privilege.

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

Many have died; you also will die. The drum of death is being beaten. The world has fallen in love with a dream. Only sayings of the wise will remain.

The truest sayings are paradoxical.

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.

There is in every truth a wise saying, and in every contradiction, two wise sayings.

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.

If you take my sayings and explode them in the air, they remain only sayings. But if you fit them together in their correct places, you will have the whole story.

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 four sayings that lead to wisdom: I was wrong I'm sorry I don't know I need help

Sayings remain meaningless until they are embodied in habits.

It's easier to make up sayings people like to hear than sayings they like to heed.

Tongues I'll hang on every tree That shall civil sayings show. . . .

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.

There are but few proverbial sayings that are not true, for they are all drawn from experience itself, which is the mother of all sciences.

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

I have enjoyed life a lot more by saying "yes" than by sayings "no".

Here's other quotes and sayings you can motivate yourself with. Practice only makes for improvement.

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

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

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.

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

Wise sayings are not only for ornament, but for action and business, having a point or edge, whereby knots in business are pierced and discovered.

Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away.

Like your body your mind also gets tired so refresh it by wise sayings.

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

There are very few profound sayings in the world.

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

Old Madame du Deffand and her friends talked for fifty years without stopping. And of it all, what remains? Perhaps three witty sayings. So that we are at liberty to suppose either that nothing was said, or that nothing witty was said, or that the fraction of three witty sayings lasted eighteen thousand two hundred and fifty nights, which does not leave a liberal allowance of wit for any one of them.

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

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

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.]

Off I go, rummaging about in books for sayings which please me.

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.

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.

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

All words and sayings gently turn, returning to the self.

A family is a burial mound of its own doings and sayings.

He knew how to say many false things that were like true sayings.

[Proverbs] are short sayings made out of long experience.

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

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

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

The foolish sayings of the rich pass for wise saws in society.

To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations.

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.

A moral lesson is better expressed in short sayings than in long discourse.

We should have much more peace if we would not busy ourselves with the sayings and doings of others.

Someday I want to go back and maybe write another book on those seven sayings. I just think they are kind of like a table of contents to the Christian hope. They invite us to go into all the aspects of the heart of Jesus. Everything about them from the drama, the setting, the passion around them - I think the seven sayings of the cross are powerful.

I've learned the truth in these sayings: 'Luck is when opportunity meets preparation' and 'The right project will find you'.

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'.

I prefer sayings over jokes.

A great many wise sayings have been uttered about the effects of solitary retirement; but the motives which impel men to seek it are not more various than the effects which it produces on different individuals. One thing is certain, that those who can with truth affirm that they are "never less alone than when alone," might generally add that they never feel more lonely than when not alone.

A little extra forgiveness never hurts," said Matt, quoting one of Celia's favorite sayings.

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!

I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in either of them: Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden.

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.

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.

I put the Scriptures above all the sayings of the fathers, angels, men and devils. Here I take my stand.