Top 1200 Wise Women 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.

What's surprising to me now is that now that I'm talking to a lot of women about this, so many women are doing this. Straight women, lesbian women, bisexual women, poor women, White women, immigrant women. This does not affect one group.

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.]

The characters that I want to play are interesting women. I don't care if they're good women or bad women or vulnerable women or women with a lot of faults or women that we dislike intensely who are malicious.

Even the wisest men make fools of themselves about women, and even the most foolish women are wise about men

I've watched women being hideously unattractive, personality-wise and physically, all the time. But these women never end up on screen.

Now, women are expected to be equal to men in so many capacities - financially, career-wise, in education - yet the one disconnect was, and is, with relationships.

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

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

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

Marjan. I have told him tales of good women and bad women, strong women and weak women, shy women and bold women, clever women and stupid women, honest women and women who betray. I'm hoping that, by living inside their skins while he hears their stories, he'll understand over time that women are not all this way or that way. I'm hoping he'll look at women as he does at men-that you must judge each of us on her own merits, and not condemn us or exalt us only because we belong to a particular sex.

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.

My daughter loves stories about my childhood, and we both love discussing women's issues. She's a wise and mature ten-year-old.

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

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

Wise married women don't trouble themselves about infidelity in their husbands.

I definitely take after my dad, looks-wise. But my mum is my greatest inspiration. All the women in my family are amazing. They're hilarious. I love funny people.

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

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.

Also, I learned whether you are gay, bisexual, it doesn't matter, you know... because, at the end of the day, they're both gross. But mostly, I learned that elderly black women are wise beyond their years... but younger black women are prostitutes.

There are a lot of women out there who are doing crazy things behind closed doors sexual-wise and are afraid to admit it.

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

Why does Samuel Butler say, 'Wise men never say what they think of women'? Wise men never say anything else apparently.

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

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

My instinct is to surround myself with the company of wise, witty, wonderful women, and I have a great bank of female friends of all ages.

The more women there are about, the softer a wise man steps.

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.

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

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.

You can't beat women anyhow and that if you are wise or dislike trouble and uproar you don't even try to.

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.

If women dabble in rap but they're not rappers, to get from dabbling to doing it is really difficult, confidence-wise.

Incidentally, the next time some war-mongering wise-ass tries to tell you that one reason we're in the Middle East is to enhance the civil rights and social equality of women, remind them that we very enthusiastically destroyed the most secular country over there, where women could dress as they liked, have good jobs, be literate, and vote.

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

Women desire six things: They want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous, obedient to wife, and lively in bed.

Most women are wise to the fact that lots of men love a cat-fight, and thus go out of their way not to give them one.

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

Women are not so well united as to form an Insurrection. They are for the most part wise enough to love their Chains, and to discern how becomingly they fit.

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

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

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

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.

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

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'.

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.

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.

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

Women are already born so far ahead ability-wise. The day men can give birth, that's when we can start talking about equal rights.

Black women come with all sorts of personalities. So it's time for media to wise up and show us in all of our complexity.

What this misguided world and generation needs is a massive group of courageous and caring, wise and unwearying women.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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