Top 100 Very Wise Sayings
#1. I was a wild child. It's nice, though, now to have grown up and be normal and domestic. I've become very traditional. Conservative, worldly and very wise but fun.
Kelly Carlson
#2. I never dreamed that the little ditties I wrote about annoying customers or bagel recipes would turn into a full-length musical comedy. But a very wise person told me to 'write what you know'. So I did.
Rob McClure
#3. Georgian film is a completely unique phenomenon, vivid, philosophically inspiring, very wise, childlike. There is everything that can make me cry and I ought to say that it (my crying) is not an easy thing.
Federico Fellini
#4. Waxillium found himself nodding. "You can be very wise sometimes, Wayne."
"It's onnacount of my thinkin', mate," Wayne said, tapping his head, increasing the thickness of his accent. "It's what I do wif my brain. Somma the time, at least.
Brandon Sanderson
#5. Personal finance is a means to an end - living a rich and fulfilling life. It is not hard. It is not complicated. I write this to share simple truths I've learned from some very wise people.
Rick Van Ness
#6. A very wise author once said that a writer writes for himself, and then publishes for money. I write for myself and publish just for the reader.
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
#7. I've always used the technique of the cuento. I am an oral storyteller, but now I do it on the printed page. I think if we were very wise we would use that same tradition in video cassettes, in movies, and on radio.
Rudolfo Anaya
#8. However, in many instances we might be very wise to ask what the consequence of removing the consequence might actually be.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#9. It's just a logical guess that they are very very wise to put someone from the old series in it, and if you had to choose, it would be a very difficult decision.
Andreas Katsulas
#10. The Dalai Lama. He is a very wise man of great inner peace who believes that happiness is the purpose of our lives. Through his teachings and leadership, he continues to make this world a better place in which to live.
Sidney Sheldon
#11. Our lady the Common Law is a very wise old lady though she still has something to learn in telling what she knows.
Frederick Pollock
#12. That suggests that what you fear most of all is - fear. Very wise, Harry.
J.K. Rowling
#13. One has to ask what is the goal of life? What is the goal of life? My interpretation of it for myself, a very wise teacher once taught me this, is to meet the needs of the people, places and the times around you and offering those services to God.
Suze Orman
#14. We could go to monasteries. I could show you people who are very wise and they have great willpower, but they're not happy. They lack balance. They take it all too seriously.
Frederick Lenz
#15. I am tempted to incapacitate him with the hemlock and then castrate him."
Lena paled. "I don't think that would be very wise," she said. "And the only knife we own is what I use for the cooking. You're not using that."
"I was planning on using a spoon," Honoria replied.
Bec McMaster
#16. For although I feel that I know a tremendous lot, I am not yet aware how much there is in the world to find out about. It will take me a little time to discover whether I am very wise or very foolish - Jack Pumpkinhead - The Marvellous Land Of Oz by L. Frank Baum pg 20 chapter 2
L. Frank Baum
#17. The true teacher of love is the heart. The heart is very, very wise. It makes mistakes from time to time, but it has a wisdom all of its own.
Frederick Lenz
#18. Children are very wise
intuitively; they know who loves them most, and who only pretends.
V.C. Andrews
#19. God in his infinite wisdom
Did not make me very wise-
So when my actions are stupid
They hardly take God by surprise.
Langston Hughes
#20. My mother is very wise and intelligent. If I have children and can do half as good a job as she did in keeping me in line, I'll be very happy.
Brandon Lee
#21. IMAGINE! See it, feel it, believe it!
You can do anything, if you truly believe in yourself."
Ronaldo's Grandad
Former captain of the North Pole Flying Team, and very wise reindeer.
Maxine Sylvester
#22. Deserves it! I daresay he does. Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#23. Yea! I believe that He who made the skies
Is wonderfully good, and very wise,
Beloved Friend! Hast thou never seen
The tears of pity gather in His eyes?
Omar Khayyam
#24. We won't make the weak stronger by making the strong weaker, as a very wise man once said. That applies to the economy as well. If Germany were less competitive, the euro area as a whole would lose, because less could be produced then.
Mario Draghi
#25. This of course is the way to talk to dragons, if you don't want to reveal your proper name which is wise, and don't want to infuriate them by a flat refusal which is also very wise. No dragon can resist the fascination of riddling talk and of wasting time to trying to understand it.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#26. A very wise old teacher once said: I consider a day's teaching wasted if we do not all have one hearty laugh.
Gilbert Highet
#27. It's a very wise thing for people to rationally sit down and look at what the risks are not only on a daily basis, on a weekly basis, on a monthly basis, on a yearly basis, on a lifetime basis, and then plan one's life accordingly.
Benjamin Carson
#28. sorrow not only twists the heart, but also dims the eyes. Only the very wise can see good in the earth when they are grieving.
Sue Harrison
#29. There is power in the keeping of a secret, and power in the revelation of a secret. Sometimes it takes very wise man to discern which is the path to greater power.
Robin Hobb
#32. What you fear most of all is - fear. Very wise...
J.K. Rowling
#33. Oh, Vanity of vanities! How wayward the decrees of Fate are; How very weak the very wise, How very small the very great are!
William Makepeace Thackeray
#34. My mother went to university, my father didn't. But they are very educated, very wise people. My father went to the military, so he's worldly.
Chuck D
#35. Today people use as many words as they can and think themselves very wise for doing so. For always remember that while it is wrong to use too few, it is often far worse to use too many.
Norton Juster
#36. In his face there came to be a brooding peace that is seen most often in the faces of the very sorrowful or the very wise. But still he wandered through the streets of the town, always silent and alone.
Carson McCullers
#37. My body is very wise; it knows how to heal itself.
Louise Hay
#38. Mmm ... she's doomed! You're doomed!! They're all doomed! Notice I didn't specify what kind of doom, so no matter what happens, I predicted it. How very WISE of me.
Christopher Paolini
#39. The Seeker, The Search, The Sacred by Guy Finley is a very wise book, filled with inspiration to help you dramatically improve your life. I highly recommend it.
Daniel Amen
#40. You can be very wild and still be very wise.
Yoko Ono
#41. What do you know?" "Well, that is hard to tell," replied Jack. "For although I feel that I know a tremendous lot, I am not yet aware how much there is in the world to find out about. It will take me a little time to discover whether I am very wise or very foolish.
L. Frank Baum
#42. I love reading Warren Buffett's letters, and I love contrasting his words with his actions. He's a very wise guy.
Daniel S. Loeb
#43. Baboons are very wise animals," Bast said.
"Agh!" Khufu picked his nose, then turned his Technicolor bum our direction. He threw his friends the ball. They began to fight over it, showing one another their fangs and slapping their heads.
"Wise?" I asked.
Rick Riordan
#44. That was either very wise or very stupid, she was not sure which.
George R R Martin
#45. I didn't lead a very wise life, myself, but it was a full one and a grown-up one. You come of age very quickly through shipwreck and disaster.
Philip Dunne
#46. My upbringing is why I am the person I am today. I have very wise parents.
Keira Knightley
#48. Cats always seem so very wise, when staring with their half-closed eyes. Can they be thinking, I'll be nice, and maybe she will feed me twice?
Bette Midler
#49. I would say that the West is very young, it's very corrupt. We're not very wise. And I think we're hopeful that there is a place that is ancient and wise and open and filled with light.
Richard Gere
#50. Woody Allen once said that 'I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.' This is certainly a very wise wish! Whoever grasped the triviality of anything besides the existence is a wise man indeed! There is no substitute for life!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#51. That's why I'm very wise [in] the way I choose the remixes 'cuz I know that the song has to transcend well. You already have a base, instead of me just doing my own production and I don't have to start from scratch.
Cedric Gervais
#52. Edward turned to Miss Marple. "It's like this, you see. As Uncle Mathew grew older, he got more and more suspicious. He didn't trust anybody." "Very wise of him," said Miss Marple. "The depravity of human nature is unbelievable.
Agatha Christie
#53. The wisest man I ever knew taught me something I never forgot. And although I never forgot it, I never quite memorized it either. So what I'm left with is the memory of having learned something very wise that I can't quite remember.
George Carlin
#54. A very wise person once told me marriage is hard, that you have to keep fighting for it everyday.
Liz Fenton
#55. I had a very wise person tell me that he thinks marriage, when you're younger, you keep thinking you can fix things. That's what people do. And you can't really fix anything. It shouldn't be a massive difficult thing every day. Life's difficult enough.
Albert Brooks
#56. It is a pity that, commonly, more care is had
yea, and that among very wise men
to find out rather a cunning man for their horse than a cunning man for their children.
Roger Ascham
#57. We were young, we were merry, we were very, very wise, And the door stood open at our feast, When there passed us a woman with the West in her eyes, And a man with his back to the East.
Mary Elizabeth Coleridge
#59. I'd like to be very wise.
Duffy
#60. There is an old and very wise Native American saying: Every time you point a finger in scorn - there are three remaining fingers pointing right back at you.
Alyson Noel
#61. Then you shall judge yourself," answered the king. "That is the most difficult thing of all. It is far more difficult to judge oneself than to judge others. If you succeed in judging yourself rightly, then indeed you are very wise.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
#62. Mr. Steven Bochco is a very wise man. After a many-monthed nationwide search to find a precocious teenage doctor, he hired me.
Neil Patrick Harris
#63. Mat, a very wise woman once told me that time would heal my wounds, that time smoothed everything over. I didn't believe her. Only
Robert Jordan
#65. 'How do you know so much about everything?' was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was 'By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.'
John Abbott
#66. It is a revolutionary experience. That's the best way I can describe it. It transforms you completely, in a second. Nature is very wise and gives you nine months to prepare, but in that moment-when you see that face, you are transformed forever.
Penelope Cruz
#67. I had a very wise mother. She always kept books that were my grade level in our house.
Beverly Cleary
#68. Mary Kay was the wholesome personification of the American dream. For women everywhere, she brought the impossible dream to life by making it a reality. She was a very wise lady. She was a people person. She was very sensitive to the importance of recognizing people.
Zig Ziglar
#69. When somebody can be intimidated, I use this. Because I'm very wise person. I know how to intimidate my opponents. I know how to play tricky stuff for them.
Kostya Tszyu
#71. When I was young, I was extremely scared of dying. But now I think it a very, very wise arrangement. It's like a light that is extinguished. Not very much to make a fuss about.
Ingmar Bergman
#72. I became a Republican when a very wise young lady asked me how I could remain a Democrat when I didn't agree with what they stood for and did agree with what the Republicans supported.
Jesse Helms
#73. When my mother died, I thought I'd drown in sorrow. But my grandmother said something very wise, and I've always held it close to my heart. She said that not even the sea is infinite, and neither is grief.
T. Frohock
#74. 'Swan,' by Mary Oliver. Poems and prose. Reading from this book is as if visiting a very wise friend. There is wisdom and welcoming kindness on every page.
Jessye Norman
#75. It is not sufficient merely to be a great master in painting and very wise, but I think that it is necessary for the painter to be very moral in his mode of life, or even, if such were possible, a saint, so that the Holy Spirit may inspire his intellect.
Michelangelo
#76. The American people may not be the best-educated, but they're very wise at heart.
Norman Lear
#78. For you, I am like a child. For others, I am very wise.
Santosh Kalwar
#79. Patience, young grasshopper," he teased. "Good things come to those who wait." "How very wise of you," I teased back.
Russ shrugged. "I eat a lot of fortune cookies.
Kelly Oram
#80. Faeries are not fantasy, but a connection to reality. Faeries are irrational, poetic, absurd, and very, very wise. Faeries say there is nonsense in dogma, and sense in nonsense. Faeries express themselves with high seriousness and low humour. Faeries are resistant to all definitions.
Brian Froud
#81. A very wise quote is a spectacular waterfall! When you see it, you feel its power!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#82. 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
#83. A militia law, requiring all men, or with very few exceptions besides cases of conscience, to be provided with arms and ammunition ... is always a wise institution, and, in the present circumstances of our country, indispensable.
John Adams
#84. To become wise you have to want to experience certain experiences, and so to run into their open jaws. This is very dangerous, tobe sure; many a "wise man" has been eaten up in doing so.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#85. 'Words, Words, Words' was very much its title. It's just words, words, words and trying to show that I can pack as much material into an hour as I possibly could word count-wise.
Bo Burnham
#87. Me personally, I side more with punk rock bands. I grew up with The Misfits, The Dead Boys, The Damned, Dropkick Murphys, and early AFI. That was the stuff that really got me into music. Song writing wise, bands like Alkaline Trio were very important to me for beginning to write songs.
Andy Biersack
#88. If you use disappointments as sort of mid- semester exams, for learning, you will learn that every disappointment you overcome makes you stronger- and wiser. The greatest success stories have been lived by those who had to grow strong and wise in that very way.
Loretta Young
#89. A wise person will be slow to show their anger ...
But very quick and diligent to show love and kindness to all.
Timothy Pina
#90. It was not until I had graduated from college that I made a professional commitment to it. Frankly, I didn't think it wise. I was my own interior parental force, and it's very difficult to justify a profession as a dancer.
Twyla Tharp
#91. In India, it is religion that forms the very core of the national heart. It is the backbone - the bed-rock - the foundation upon which the national edifice has been built.
Abhijit Naskar
#92. It is not wise, or even possible, to divorce private behavior from public leadership ... By its very nature, true leadership carries with it the burden of being an example.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#93. Sometimes love was not about winning, but about wise sacrifice and the realiability of friends like Arianne. Friendship, Roland realized, was its very own kind of love.
Lauren Kate
#94. Just because a woman's got no teeth doesn't mean she's wise. It might just mean she's been stupid for a very long time.
Terry Pratchett
#95. I am very conscious that I am not wise at all.
Socrates
#96. In case you're short on definitions, here's one. Insanity: 'Destroying the very things that sustain us.' And if we're so short-sighted so as to make such preposterous choices, then it's not all that preposterous to believe that shortly our end will be in sight.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#97. Wise is the man who does not disdain any character and instead, examining him with a searching look, plumbs him to the very main-springs of his being.
Nikolai Gogol
#98. We are only here below as in an inn on a journey. Let us, then have the feelings of travelers. We should think a man very strange who attached himself much to his inn. The wise Christian will not do this.
Eugenie De Guerin
#99. Wise man's mind is always very clear. When asked anything, he gives the answer directly almost without any thinking!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#100. Anything can happen; this is the very rule of this universe! The best defence against this rule is this: Don't panic!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
