Top 100 Are Wise Sayings
#1. It is by a mathematical point only that we are wise, as the sailor or fugitive slave keeps the polestar in his eye; but that is sufficient guidance for all our life. We may not arrive at our port within a calculable period, but we would preserve the true course.
Henry David Thoreau
#2. 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.
Julie Burchill
#3. We are not wise; we are wise to seek divine wisdom.
T.F. Hodge
#4. We preserve ourselves as if that were important, and always at the expense of others. We hoard ourselves. We succeed if they fail, we are wise if they are foolish, and we go onward, clutching, until there is no one - we are left with no companion save God. In
James Salter
#5. The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love.
Paulo Coelho
#6. Those who know ask to receive.Those who understand seek to experience or find.Those that are wise knock on open doors
Ikechukwu Joseph
#7. If you are wise, you will dread a prosperity which only loads you with more.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#8. When we stop interfering and are wise enough to let the psychophysiological connection work for us instead of against us, our minds rush as quickly as possible towards perfect health.
Deepak Chopra
#9. We are wise women, we are giggling girls. We both carry a smile to show when we're pleased, we both carry a switchblade in our sleeves.
Ani DiFranco
#10. Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon by them: but they are the money of fools, that value them by the authority of an Aristotle, a Cicero, or a Thomas, or any other doctor whatsoever, if but a man.
Thomas Hobbes
#11. The thanes nodded and patted each other on the back as if to say, Yes, wow! We really are wise and open-minded! We deserve cookies!
Rick Riordan
#12. You can't beat women anyhow and that if you are wise or dislike trouble and uproar you don't even try to.
William Faulkner
#13. Students Are Wise Who listen to what the Teacher Tells them
Smart Oyejide
#14. Without oblivion, there is no remembrance possible. When both oblivion and memory are wise, when the general soul of man is clear, melodious, true, there may come a modern Iliad as memorial of the Past.
Thomas Carlyle
#15. The child who dwells inside us trusts that there are wise men somewhere who know the truth.
Czeslaw Milosz
#16. We are wise to be cautious, but I suggest we prepare for the worst and hope for the best.
Orson Scott Card
#17. Those who wish their virtue to be advertised are not striving for virtue but for renown. Are you not willing to be just without being renowned? Nay, indeed you must often be just and be at the same time disgraced. And then, if you are wise, let ill repute, well won, be a delight. Farewell.
Seneca.
#18. Does a man speak foolishly?
suffer him gladly, for you are wise. Does he speak erroneously?
stop such a man's mouth with sound words that cannot be gainsaid. Does he speak truly?
rejoice in the truth.
Oliver Cromwell
#19. If thy words are wise, they will not seem so to the foolish: if they are deep the shallow will not appreciate them. Think not highly of thyself, then, when thou art praised by many.
John Lancaster Spalding
#20. Living is very serious, very real. It is also always a game. If we are wise, it is very real, very terrible, and very lovely, and a good deal of fun.
Eileen Wilks
#21. Sometimes in our lives we all have pain. We all have sorrow. But if we are wise we know that there's always tomorrow.
Bill Withers
#22. To lose time in the manufacture of cut-and-dried constitutions is, in consequence, a puerile task, the useless labour of an ignorant rhetorician. Necessity and time undertake the charge of elaborating constitutions when we are wise enough to allow these two factors to act
Gustave Le Bon
#23. Those who are wise won't be busy, and those who are too busy can't be wise.
Lin Yutang
#24. When there is sympathy, there needs but one wise man in a company and all are wise,
so, a blockhead makes a blockhead of his companion. Wonderful power to benumb possesses this brother.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#25. If there's one thing I can't bear, it's people who are wise during the event.
Kenneth Tynan
#26. The true way for a Christian to live is to live entirely upon Christ ... Christians have experiences and they have feelings, but, if they are wise, they never feed upon these things, but upon Christ, Himself.
Charles Spurgeon
#27. Justice
That Justice is a blind goddess
Is a thing to which we black are wise:
Her bandage hides two festering sores
That once perhaps were eyes.
Langston Hughes
#28. You are wise and fearless and fair, Lady Galadriel,' said Frodo. 'I will give you the One Ring, if you ask for it. It is too great a matter for me
J.R.R. Tolkien
#29. Still others commit all sorts of evil deeds, claiming karma doesn't exist. They erroneously maintain that since everything is empty, committing evil isn't wrong. Such persons fall into a hell of endless darkness with no hope of release. Those who are wise hold no such conception.
Bodhidharma
#30. Self-compassion is an inoculate for the mind, protecting it from potential harm. Emotional disease cannot contaminate the minds of those who are wise enough to love and accept themselves.
Miya Yamanouchi
#32. In science, the old men are usually wrong. But in politics, the old men are wise, counsel caution, and in the end are often right.
Michael Crichton
#33. We are wise, wise women. We are giggling girls.
Ani DiFranco
#34. You are wise, witty and wonderful, but you spend too much time reading this sort of stuff.
Frank Crane
#35. Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others.
Edward Abbey
#36. If you are wise, be wise; keep what goods the gods provide you.
Plautus
#37. Politics is a place of humble hopes and strangely modest requirements, where all are good who are not criminal and all are wise who are not ridiculously otherwise.
Frank Moore Colby
#38. Dogs are wise. They crawl away into a quiet corner and lick their wounds and do not rejoin the world until they are whole once more.
Agatha Christie
#39. Can an author with reason complain that he is cramped and shackled if he is not at liberty to publish blasphemy, bawdry, or sedition?; all of which are equally prohibited in the freest governments, if they are wise and well-regulated ones.
Bill Vaughan
#41. How I wish that somewhere there existed an island for those who are wise and of good will.
Albert Einstein
#42. When you are in love you are not wise; or, when you are wise you are not in love.
Publilius Syrus
#43. You are wise in the ways of real love, Mackenzie. So many believe that it is love that grows, but it is the knowing that grows and love simply expands to contain it. Love is just the skin of knowing. Mackenzie, you love your children, whom you know so well, with a wonderful and real love.
Wm. Paul Young
#44. When we are foolish, we want to conquer the world. When we are wise, we want to conquer ourselves. That begins when we do what we should no matter how we feel about it.
John C. Maxwell
#47. Someday this upside-down world will be turned right side up. Nothing in all eternity will turn it back again. If we are wise, we will use our brief lives on earth positioning ourselves for the turn.
Randy Alcorn
#48. Certainly a wilderness area, a little portion of our planet left alone ... will furnish us with a number of very important uses ... If we are wise, we will cherish what we have left of such places in our land.
Olaus Murie
#49. The are two kinds of people in this modern society. First and the majority are those fools who think they are wise, and second are the few wise individuals who know that they are fools.
Abhijit Naskar
#50. SHINE JESUS - I have found, the more we point others to Jesus ... the more His radiance shines through us. "Those who are wise will shine like the brightest of heavens, and those who turn many to righteousness will shine like stars forever and ever." Daniel 12:3
Paul Cobb
#51. You are wise only if despite of being capable of taking a revenge & holding onto a grudge, you choose to forgive!
Anamika Mishra
#52. Through life's storms,
we learn about ourselves,
and more importantly,
if we are wise, about God.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#53. The joy of joys is the person of light but unmalicious humor. If you know any one who is gay, beguiling and amusing, you will, if you are wise, do everything you can to make him prefer your house and your table to any other; for where he is, the successful party is also.
Emily Post
#54. You ask: what is the meaning or purpose of life? I can only answer with another question: do you think we are wise enough to read God's mind?
Freeman Dyson
#55. Langston Hughes, who wrote, "That Justice is a blind goddess/Is a thing to which we black are wise:/Her bandage hides two festering sores/That once perhaps were eyes." As
C. Arthur Ellis Jr
#56. Oh my fadder and I are one, " she said, "just me, just him, and dear, if you are wise you will run, run back to where you came from, run quickly, because to stay will mean worse than your death. No one who dies in Derry really dies. You knew that before; believe it now.
Stephen King
#57. You are a member of my court. And as such, you answer to me. You are wise, and brave, and a joy - but we are headed into dark, horrible places where even I fear to tread.
Sarah J. Maas
#58. Laughter is an anarchic blasphemy. Tyrants are wise to fear it.
David Mitchell
#59. 1 Corinthians 3:18-19
Do not deceive yourselves. If any of you think you are wise by the standards of this age, you should become 'fools' so that you may become wise. For the wisdom of this world is foolishness in God's sight.
Anonymous
#60. There are wise ways to enter a tomb cavern. Falling is not one of them.
Jenna Burtenshaw
#61. By now all rock bands are wise enough to be suspicious of music industry scum.
Steve Albini
#62. There are peaks and valleys in anything and that is especially true for the music business. It is very inconsistent. But if you are wise, you can let those downs really bring you to another level of your personality.
Bryan White
#63. Wise men are wise yet their actions always seem otherwise to others who always think of the otherwise
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#64. I once read that people who study others are wise but those who study themselves are enlightened.
Robin S. Sharma
#65. You may use different sorts of sentences and illustrations before different sorts of audiences, but you don't
if you are wise
talk down to any audience.
Norman Thomas
#67. It is not only species of animal that die out, but whole species of feeling. And if you are wise you will never pity the past for what it did not know, but pity yourself for what it did.
John Fowles
#68. Wisdom is not mathematical, nor astronomical, nor zoological; when it talks too much of any one thing it ceases to be itself. There are wise physicists, but wisdom is not physical; there are wise physicians, but wisdom is not medical.
George Sarton
#69. Like a beautiful flower, full of colour, but without scent, are wise words when spoken, but fruitless these words are when not carried out by the speaker.
Gautama Buddha
#70. True wisdom is to see and understand your relationship with the universe. When you gain that relational knowledge, then you are wise.
Frederick Lenz
#71. Those who take up any subject with an open mind, willing to learn anything that will contribute to their advancement, comfort and happiness, are wise.
Roger McDonald
#72. They only are wise who know that they know nothing.
Thomas Carlyle
#73. 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.
Sarah Silverman
#74. If you are wise you won't be deceived by the innocent airs of those whom you have once found to be dangerous.
Aesop
#75. Be merry if you are wise.
Martial
#76. May We Love Ourselves.
May We Love Each Other.
May We Believe that Our Dreams Can Come True.
We Are Strong.
We Are Wise.
We Are the Heroines of our Own Lives
-The Heroine's Club benediction
Melia Keeton-Digby
#77. If poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world, science fiction writers are its court jesters. We are Wise Fools who can leap, caper, utter prophecies, and scratch ourselves in public. We can play with Big Ideas because the garish motley of our pulp origins make us seem harmless.
Bruce Sterling
#78. Older people are wise not only because they have lived longer. They're wise because they have lost more.
Mari Ruti
#79. Down the mountain we shall go and down the passes, and as the valleys open the world will open, Utopia, where men and women are happy and laws are wise, and where all that is tangled and confused in human affairs has been unravelled and made right.
H.G.Wells
#81. Those who know are wise. Those who know themselves are enlightened.
Laozi
#82. Unveil a person's thoughts,
and you are shrewd.
Unveil a person's desires,
and you are wise.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#83. The Italians are wise before the deede, the Germanes in the deede, the French after the deede.
[The Italians are wise before the deed, the Germens in the deed, the French after the deed.]
George Herbert
#84. Many words have been granted me, and some are wise, and some are false, but only three are holy: I will it!
Ayn Rand
#85. Not only has wilderness been a force in molding our character as a people, but its influence continues, and will, if we are wise enough to preserve it on this continent, be a stabilizing power as well as a spiritual reserve for the future.
Sigurd F. Olson
#86. Those who understand others are clever, those who understand themselves are wise.
Laozi
#87. There isn't much that tastes better than praise from those who are wise and capable.
Selma Lagerlof
#88. 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.
Augustine Of Hippo
#90. We are wise women," Abuela liked to say. "Not because we are wise, but because we seek wisdom.
Charles De Lint
#92. If they are wise, do not quarrel with them; if they are fools, ignore them.
Epictetus
#93. Numerous are the academic professors, but rare are wise and noble teachers.
Albert Einstein
#94. You are wise as well as short."
"I can also break bricks with my bare hands."
"That's a handy skill if you ever find yourself walled up in the basement of an abandoned house by a psychopath.
Nora Roberts
#95. People who are wise, good, smart, skillful, or hardworking don't need politics, they have jobs.
P. J. O'Rourke
#96. But you are wise,
Or else you love not, for to be wise and love
Exceeds man's might; that dwells with gods above.
William Shakespeare
#97. Praise of power leads to weakness; Love of things leads to loss; The wise one leads by filling people's hearts; He destroys illusion and disturbs those who believe they are wise; He does nothing yet everything happens.
Laozi
#98. If you are wise, Matson said to himself grimly, you never take one-way trips. Anywhere. Even to Boise, Idaho ... even across the street. Be certain, when you start, that you can scramble back.
Philip K. Dick
#99. Before, you are wise; after, you are wise. In between you are otherwise
David Zindell
#100. If you are wise, live as you can; if you cannot, live as you would.
Baltasar Gracian
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