Top 100 Quotes About Wise: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Wise

#1. The old Lakota was wise. He knew that man's heart, away from nature, becomes hard; he knew that lack of respect for growing, living things soon led to lack of respect for humans too.

Luther Standing Bear

#2. A wise woman puts a grain of sugar in everything she says to a man, and takes a grain of salt with everything he says to her.

Helen Rowland

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

Geoffrey Chaucer

#4. Your fans, they count on you to make wise decisions and wise choices. That's why they're your fan base. If you continually let them down, they're going to go find someone else to be fans of.

Ludacris

#5. Loves not always wise, I've learned it. It can lead us to great folly, but we follow our hearts ... wherever they take us.

George R R Martin

#6. Wise men say, only fools rush in. But I can't help, falling in love with you.

Elvis Presley

#7. In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body; then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self.

William Penn

#8. I am convinced our own happiness requires that we should continue to mix with the world, and to keep pace with it as it goes. - Wise words from Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826).

Thomas Jefferson

#9. Words have a taste, sweet but subtle, like dark chocolate; the scent of old bookshops; a flamenco rhythm; the feeling of the rain on your face on sunny days. Words are cruel and spiteful sometimes, wise and loving at others.

Chloe Thurlow

#10. Get up in the morning and invite good things into your life. I am blessed. I am strong. I am talented. I am wise. I am disciplined. I am focused. I am prosperous.

Joel Osteen

#11. An accountability mind has learned to be agile, wise, courageous, resilient, and high-mature.

Pearl Zhu

#12. Wise people are motivated by the quotes and by the books.

Deyth Banger

#13. He wished he was doing much more than kissing the back of her silky hand, though throwing her on the bar and devouring her like a man-eater wasn't a wise option.
But ... he was only human.

Ophelia London

#14. Who needs astrology? The wise man gets by on fortune cookies.

Edward Abbey

#15. It costs nothing to ask wise advice from a good friend.

George S. Clason

#16. I'm a business first and foremost so whatever my business is, it's separate from my personal. It's like whatever I do business wise, it's done in the business fashion whether it's promoting , marketing, whatever I'm doing.

Snoop Dogg

#17. You should not be too much of a purist in your way of life, for you need to be able to accept all that is foul. You should not be too clear in making distinctions in social interactions, for you need to accept everyone whether they are good or bad, wise or foolish.

Zicheng Hong

#18. When men succeed, even their neighbors think them wise.

Pindar

#19. They say it's a wise bairn that kens its father, but I dinna think there's much doubt who yours is, lass. Ye might have had the lang nebbit and red locks from anyone, but ye didna get the stubbornness from any man but Jamie Fraser.

Diana Gabaldon

#20. Demelza said: 'It seems to me no man is wise enough if the woman is not wise enough.' Ross

Winston Graham

#21. 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

#22. Water jokes about the obstacles on its way; wise man jokes about the obstacles on his way!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#23. To form a truly free constitution, that's to say, truly just and wise, the first point, the main point, the capital point, is that all the laws be agreed on by the people, after considered reflection, and especially having taken time to see what's at stake ...

Jean-Paul Marat

#24. In my day job, I worry non-stop about making wise investments for long-term gains.

J. B. Pritzker

#25. What is wise in this world exists equally inside of us and outside of us, and it is through collaboration that wisdom, stories, songs are made manifest.

Joanne Arnott

#26. The wise learn many things from their enemies.

Aristophanes

#27. How wise are thy commandments, Lord. Each of them applies to somebody I know.

Sam Levenson

#28. 5-6 blogs is too many for a fool to have; one is enough for a wise person

Tasha Turner

#29. Questions upon points wherein Scripture is silent; upon mysteries which belong to God alone; upon prophecies of doubtful interpretation; and upon mere modes of observing human ceremonials, are all foolish, and wise men avoid them.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#30. All governments like the ignorant, because their existence depends on them! If the society becomes wise, governments cannot survive, at least the bad ones cannot!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#31. There are so many different fifteens. And eighteens. And forty-twos, for that matter. Mature fifteens and young fifteens and wise fifteens and lost fifteens. And angry fifteens.

Deb Caletti

#32. Better is old wine than new, and old friends like-wise.

Charles Kingsley

#33. If I ever acquire wisdom, I suppose I'll be wise enough to know what to do with it.

Lamar Trotti

#34. My grandma said "if you do good, you do it to yourself", "if you do bad, you do it to yourself."
Be wise and do good.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#35. Avoiding the appearance of queenly behavior is politically wise. But it does American culture no favors if a first lady tries so hard to be average that she winds up looking common,

Robin Givhan

#36. Show is not substance; realities govern wise men.

William Penn

#37. No wise man ever took a handgun to a gun fight.

Wyatt Earp

#38. When I was a sophomore at USC, I was a socialist, pretty much to the left. But not when I left the university. I quickly got wise. I'd read about what had happened to Russia in 1917 when the Communists took over.

John Wayne

#39. You simply don't get to be wise, mature, etc., unless you've been a raving cannibal for thirty years or so.

Doris Lessing

#40. Even the hard times are part of your life story. If you acknowledge them and move past them, they eventually add up to the experience that makes you wise.

Miley Cyrus

#41. There is no gap between the ignorant and the wise. A foolish person is a wise person; a wise person is a foolish person.

Shunryu Suzuki

#42. Respect and humility go together. Humility is not meekness, but the opposite of arrogance. A wise old Indian man once said, "Empty drums make the loudest noise." Grandfather often repeated this phrase to indicate that those with the least understanding are the most arrogant.

Arun Gandhi

#43. The King did what all wise husbands do. He did as he was told.

Toby Forward

#44. The million-dollar marital Band-Aid, never a wise idea.

Marisha Pessl

#45. The wise person acts but does not take credit. Leads, but does not rule.

Lao-Tzu

#46. To be excited and at the same time satisfied; to desire and possess -that has been described somewhere as the wise man's idea of heaven.

Alec Waugh

#47. For you, I am like a child. For others, I am very wise.

Santosh Kalwar

#48. I don't think a wise thing at this moment is for Israel to launch a military attack on Iran.

William Hague

#49. 1My father says a hunch is your brain's way of taking a short cut to the truth,' replied Max.
'He's a wise man, your father. What else does he say?'

'That the more you try to hide from the truth, the quicker it finds you.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#50. Nature herself makes the wise man rich.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#51. Wise people put as much distance between themselves and sexual temptation as possible. They not only get away but also plan their escape route.

Craig Groeschel

#52. Curse away! And let me tell thee, Beausant, a wise proverb The Arabs have,-"Curses are like young chickens, And still come home to roost."

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

#53. If you want wise lessons, ask wise questions. The type of questions you often ask tells the kind of person you are.

Israelmore Ayivor

#54. When I am talking to people who I feel don't like me or are mean, I get really shy, and I kind of curl up personality wise.

Taylor Swift

#55. The islanders know how to find it. But they are too wise to come here, to take its gold. They say that the cave makes you evil: that each time you visit it, each time you enter to take gold, it eats the good in your soul, so they do not enter.

Neil Gaiman

#56. Fools live life; intellectuals only think thoughts arising from borrowed knowledge.
That is why fools enjoy life while so called wise people are busy posting tweets about life.
Unfortunately, I am a wise man.

Saurabh Sharma

#57. If this is foolish, I don't want to be wise.

Cynthia Hand

#58. A wise man once said to me, "Don't ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive." Actions speak louder than words. Don't just talk about what you plan to do. Make it happen.

Jes Fuhrmann

#59. Boys don't always make the right decisions. It takes years before they become men and wise up.

Abbi Glines

#60. Wise men speak only of what they know

J.R.R. Tolkien

#61. Only the human heart can live in present moment awareness. The human mind cannot, because its essential nature is to ponder the past and plan the future. This is why all wise beings encourage us to go beyond the mind into the timeless, boundless transcendence of heart-centered awareness.

David Simon

#62. It's not about changing--it's about growing, together," he said, like the wise soul that he was. "I wanted to let you know--that I am with you. Always. Forever. We don't have to be separated by the sun, school, or even the night. Now I'm just a click away." ~Alexander

Ellen Schreiber

#63. L am not resigned to the shutting away of loving hearts in the hard ground. So it is, and so it will be, for so it has been, time out of mind: Into the darkness they go, the wise and the lovely. Crowned With lilies and with laurel they go; but I am not resigned.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

#64. That's what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he's wise.

George Eliot

#65. A wise man never enjoys himself so much, nor a fool so little, as when alone.

Josh Billings

#66. A wise coach keeps an open mind and does not make assumptions about people. - Jack Canfield and Peter Chee

Jack Canfield

#67. So what,' said Zuzana. 'They had to be pretty stupid butterflies to fall for him anyway. You'll grow new ones with more sense. New wise butterflies.

Laini Taylor

#68. He who walks with the wise will be wise, Scripture saith, and he who walks with the witty will eventually start to pop off himself.

Douglas Wilson

#69. Food-wise, oh man, I tend to really indulge on vacation because a lot of my friends are incredible chefs. One friend makes an eggplant parmesan that is heavenly and melts in your mouth, and another makes a chocolate pudding that I can't resist.

Rachel Platten

#70. Life is so short that it is not wise to take roundabout ways, nor can we spend much time in waiting ... We have not got half-way to dawn yet.

Henry David Thoreau

#71. To me, a wise and humane policy is occasionally to let inflation rise even when inflation is running above target.

Janet Yellen

#72. There's a strange something, which without a brain
Fools feel, and which e'en wise men can't explain,
Planted in man, to bind him to that earth,
In dearest ties, from whence he drew his birth.

Charles Churchill

#73. The simplicity of the universe is very different from the simplicity of a machine. The simplicity of nature is not that which may be easily read but is inexhaustible. The last analysis can no wise be made.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#74. A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.

Michel De Montaigne

#75. Mindfulness, also called wise attention, helps us see what we're adding to our experiences, not only during meditation sessions but also elsewhere.

Sharon Salzberg

#76. Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship.

James Russell Lowell

#77. Let no person think lightly of good, saying in his or her heart, "it will not benefit me." As by the falling of raindrops a jar of water is filled, so the wise person becomes full of good, even though he or she collects it little by little.

Gautama Buddha

#78. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.

Heinrich Heine

#79. When a love comes to an end, weaklings cry, efficient ones instantly find another love, and the wise already have one in reserve.

Oscar Wilde

#80. Wise men don't judge: They seek to understand.

Wei Wu Wei

#81. He had the eyes of a man that had seen things. Eyes that were soulful and wise, yet vibrant and sultry. Eyes that made me want to run away, yet urged me to stay.

S.L. Jennings

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

Rumi

#83. The simple minded know many things that the wise ignore

Vincent Van Gogh

#84. The army slew a thousand and showed little pity
The king ordered fealty from the conquered city
The prince charmed its people with words wise and witty
And the queen sat on a couch, looking very pretty

Shannon Hale

#85. Wise people prefer to benefit from constructive criticism rather than be ruined by false praise

Shiv Khera

#86. It would be an unspeakable advantage, both to the public and private, if men would consider that great truth, that no man is wise or safe but he that is honest.

Walter Raleigh

#87. Youth might be wise; we suffer less from pains than pleasures.

Philip James Bailey

#88. The fool who thinks he is wise is just a fool. The fool who knows he is a fool is wise indeed.

Gautama Buddha

#89. Keep studying the scriptures, keep doing the things that build your faith in Jesus Christ and then notice the wise choices you are naturally drawn to make

Russell M. Nelson

#90. Mitch and I have known each other for such a long time, and we're both so pleased to be given this opportunity at this point in our lives to play characters that we've never really had a chance to play before. It's a great gift. Plus we're wise enough to appreciate it.

Susan Sullivan

#91. Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?

Voltaire

#92. A wise leader doesn't just follow but discover the path.

Pearl Zhu

#93. The residence of the Plymouth settlers in the Netherlands, and the later conquest of the Dutch colonies, had brought the Americans into contact with the singularly wise and free institutions of the Dutch.

Albert Bushnell Hart

#94. Life is hard. People can't be trusted. Vigilance is key. Be wise about whom you love, and when you do love, do it with every fiber of your being. Till death do you part.

David DiBenedetto