Top 100 Wise But Quotes
#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
#3. We are wise women," Abuela liked to say. "Not because we are wise, but because we seek wisdom.
Charles De Lint
#4. The peculiar circumstances of the moment may render a measure more or less wise, but cannot render it more or less constitutional.
John Marshall
#6. History makes one wise, but not competent to solve concrete problems.
Ludwig Von Mises
#7. Men shouldn't fear or hate what they do not know but study it and share it instead. It is both an act of selfishness and cruelty to seek for the destruction of wisdom and the wise, but also to keep silent when witnessing it happening.
Daniel Marques
#8. She was not too young to be wise, but she was too young to know that wisdom
shouldn't be spoken aloud when you are happy.
Graham Greene
#9. I pray for sufficient wisdom to understand that wisdom apart from God is the stuff of opinion tainted by the rot of bias. And if I am somehow apt to confuse such rubbish with wisdom, I will think myself wise but find myself living in a landfill.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#10. The men upon whose shoulders rested the initial responsibility of Christianizing the world came to Jesus with one supreme request. They did not say, "Lord, teach us to preach"; "Lord, teach us to do miracles"; or "Lord, teach us to be wise" ... but they said, "Lord, teach us to pray.
Billy Graham
#11. There's a lot of kids' shows that are really popular ratings-wise, but they don't sell a lot of stuff. A character on a backpack just doesn't have the same appeal as watching it on TV.
Tom Kenny
#12. Though we may be learned by another's knowledge, we can never be wise but by our own experience.
Michel De Montaigne
#14. I was so shy. I used to cross the street so I wouldn't even have to talk to my relatives, much less strangers. That's not shy, that's wise. But I found that that when you had a journalist's notebook in your hand it wasn't really you, you see.
Geraldine Brooks
#16. No one survives in times of war unless they make war their home. How did I get so old and wise, but for welcoming war into my house and making friends with him? Better to befriend the enemy and hang on. Something worse might come along, which might be amusing or might not.
Gregory Maguire
#17. Music wasn't made to make us wise, but better natured.
Josh Billings
#18. I don't pretend to be wise, but I am observing, and I see a great deal more than you'd imagine. I'm interested in other people's experiences and inconsistencies, and, though I can't explain, I remember and use them for my own benefit.
Louisa May Alcott
#19. And I shall find some girl perhaps, and a better one than you, With eyes as wise, but kindlier, and lips as soft, but true, and I dare say she will do.
Rupert Brooke
#20. I'm going forward with my plans for life. I'm looking at things not only basketball-wise, but personal-wise.
Dwyane Wade
#21. Success and suffering will either darken your heart or make you wise, but they won't leave you where you were.
Timothy Keller
#22. Any fool can say he is wise but only someone wise can admit he is a fool.
Michael Reed
#23. I'm not wise, but the beginning of wisdom is there; it's like relaxing into - and an acceptance of - things.
Tina Turner
#24. I wish I was beautiful or at least wise, but I'm simply mad and violent.
Courtney Love
#25. Study then, but study first that which will most help you to help others. Work patiently at your studies, not that men may think you wise, not even that you may have the happiness of being wise, but because only the wise man can be wisely helpful.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#26. Being a senior doesn't automatically make one wise but the wise & foolish alike have things to teach us.
Allan Lokos
#27. To me, my peers are Bruce Springsteen and Mick Jagger. I'm not talking age-wise, but in terms of careers. Madonna. Those are my peers. And I'm okay with that.
LL Cool J
#28. A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.
William Shakespeare
#29. The Canarsie People said the knowing belongs to the old and wise, but the unfolding is in the keeping of the young. The old prevent the young from straying off the path of wisdom. The young yearn after the path of dreams. Between the two there is truth.
Beverly Swerling
#30. We may admire people for being wise, but we like them best when they are foolish.
Mary Russell Mitford
#31. He who walks with the wise grows wise, but a companion of fools suffers harm.
Solomon
#33. We humans do thousand and one thing to impress others and show to the world that we are smart and wise but we tend to forget one very simple thing, there is small child in each one of us which is hungry for our own trust and inspirations.
Santosh Kalwar
#34. I believe that we're going to find out that America made a lot of mistakes diplomatically, economically, militarily, intel-wise. But, I also think we're going to find out the U.S. has done a lot of good things too.
John McCain
#35. No man is born wise; but wisdom and virtue require a tutor; though we can easily learn to be vicious without a master.
Seneca The Younger
#36. Order is Heaven's first law; and this confessed, some are, and must be, greater than the rest, more rich, more wise; but who infers from hence that such are happier, shocks all common sense. Condition, circumstance, is not the thing; bliss is the same in subject or in king.
Alexander Pope
#37. 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
#38. Finally, we do become wise, but then it's too late
Steve Martin
#39. The body is either stupid or infinitely wise, but in either case it is spared the terrible witchery of thought; it only knows how to stand its ground and fight until it can fight no more.
Stephen King
#41. Probably in your mind your shit is wise, but so far what I hear for me doesn't sound as a wise.
Deyth Banger
#42. I once read that people who study others are wise but those who study themselves are enlightened.
Robin S. Sharma
#43. Adults always wonder what to say and how to say it when they're talking to a child. You want to be wise, but all you are is a child yourself in a larger body. Nothing is ever what it seems. The things that you think you know are never certain. I know that now. I wish that I didn't, but I do.
Robert Crais
#44. Most are deceived by and drawn to behavior and things that seem right, good, and wise but are contrary to His wisdom.
John Bevere
#45. The ant is knowing and wise, but he doesn't know enough to take a vacation.
Clarence Day
#46. I've never smoked crack. I've never done most things, drug-wise. But I assume that the experience I had watching Lost is the experience that crack addicts have smoking crack.
Ginnifer Goodwin
#47. Crowds of minds can be wise, but crowds of bodies just aren't.
John Seabrook
#48. None of us was born knowing or wise; but men become wise by consideration, observation, experience.
Benjamin Whichcote
#49. People always fancy that we must become old to become wise; but, in truth, as years advance, it is hard to keep ourselves as wise as we were.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#50. In Shakespeare's play As You Like It, Touchstone says to Audrey in the Forest of Arden "The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool." (Act V, Scene I).
Karolina Achirri
#51. And just then he realized in a flash that men have only this sad knowledge with which to heal themselves: when you lose life, you grow wise. But that is better than maiming life to hold it.
John Holmes
#52. Seek God, but you will not find Him with your eyes;
you will find Him with your heart. Listen to the wise, but you will not hear them with your ears;
you will hear them with your heart.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#53. The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.
William Shakespeare
#54. The Foole doth thinke he is wise, but the wiseman knowes himselfe to be a Foole.
William Shakespeare
#55. Imagination cannot make fools wise, but it makes them happy, as against reason, which only makes its friends wretched: one covers them with glory, the other with shame.
Blaise Pascal
#56. History admires the wise, but elevates the brave.
Edmund Morris
#57. Answers make you wise, but questions make you human.
Yves Montand
#58. He used to think that he wanted to be goos, he wanted to be kind, he wanted to be brave and wise, but it was all pretty difficult. He wanted to be loved, too, if he could fit it in.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#59. Yes, God uses the uneducated to confound the wise. But that doesn't make ignorance a virtue.
Andy Stanley
#60. No man is bound to be rich or great, - no, nor to be wise; but every man is bound to be honest.
Benjamin Rudyerd
#61. 20. He that walketh with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed.
Anonymous
#62. Mankind grows taller, older, and ever more wise; but seldom truly up.
Wes Fesler
#63. Americans are good people, and at times we can be wise. But we're often under-informed by media, misinformed by our government and ill-served by both.
Marianne Williamson
#64. Be wise among the wise, but pretend to be dull among fools.
Thiruvalluvar
#65. I don't have a type looks-wise, but all my exes have been funny, open-minded and ambitious. I can't stand men with no passion in life.
Kathryn Prescott
#66. I spend a lot of time in L.A., and I think it would probably be easier if I lived there work wise, but there's no city like London, there is so much going on. I can jump on the Tube and be anywhere in 20 minutes, and all my friends and family are here and I'm not prepared to give that up.
Jeremy Irvine
#67. Those who unconsciously despair yet put on the mask of optimism are not necessarily wise. But those who have not given up hope can succeed only if they are hardheaded realists, shed all illusions, and fully appreciate the difficulties.
Erich Fromm
#68. When we looked at the life cycle in our 40s, we looked to old people for wisdom. At 80, though, we look at other 80-year-olds to see who got wise and who not. Lots of old people don't get wise, but you don't get wise unless you age.
Erik Erikson
#69. People think that other international languages are smarter and more business wise. But they have to understand that we have to preserve our culture.
Enock Maregesi
#70. A lot of people look at playing overseas as a step down from the NBA. And, yes it is a step down from the NBA money-wise, but there is just as good of talent overseas as in the NBA. Not better talent.
Udonis Haslem
#71. Adversity makes men wise but not rich.
John Ray
#72. I'm more like my father, personality-wise. But my mom and I get alone really well - obviously, because my mom and my dad get along so well.
Jenna Bush
#73. Maybe politically it wasn't wise but when people have different view points I think the public has a right to hear it and the public has a right to make decisions based on those view points.
Scott McCallum
#74. You'd think New York people was all wise; but no, they can't get a chance to learn. Every thing's too compressed. Even the hay-seeds are bailed hay-seeds. But what else can you expect from a town that's shut off for the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?
O. Henry
#75. The mouse is wise, but the cat is wiser.
Tycho Brahe
#76. Whoever walks with the wise becomes wise, but the companion of fools will suffer harm.
Anonymous
#77. Some folks as they grow older grow wise but most folks simply grow stubborner.
Josh Billings
#78. His eyes were as green and curious as the eyes of a tomcat who is old enough to be wise but not old enough to have lost that refined sense of cruelty which passes for fun in feline circles.
Stephen King
#79. The man who can keep a secret may be wise, but he is not half as wise as the man with no secrets to keep
Edgar Watson Howe
#80. Many's the man/ who thought himself wise/ but what he needed/ he did not know ...
Richard Wagner
#81. 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
#82. By 20, you should be smart. By 30, you should be strong. By 40, you should be rich. By 50, you should be wise. But if you are smart, strong, rich and wise, you don't need any age limits.
Santosh Kalwar
#83. 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.
Shari Sebbens
#84. For me, a song doesn't really take flight until it has a lyric on it ... Without a lyric that I'm happy with, it could be the greatest song ever melodically or arrangement-wise, but it doesn't have any resonance.
Ben Gibbard
#85. 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
#86. But even though she was wise beyond her years, she was still young, and so was I, and all of our words were drowned out by the noise of our beating hearts, screaming at us that we were, after all, creatures of flesh and blood.
Dexter Palmer
#87. Withdrawn into the peace of this desert, along with some books, few but wise, I live in conversation with the deceased, and listen to the dead with my eyes
Francisco De Quevedo
#88. Well, yes, Dustpaw, launching an attack and knocking me back across the border is one option. But is it wise to take on a cat twice your size?
Erin Hunter
#90. It is but too common, of late, to condemn the acts of our predecessors and to pronounce them unjust, unwise, or unpatriotic from not adverting to the circumstances under which they acted. Thus, to judge is to do great injustice to the wise and patriotic men who preceded us.
John C. Calhoun
#91. We listen to those whom we know to be of the same opinion as ourselves, and we call them wise for being of it; but we avoid such as differ from us.
Walter Savage Landor
#92. 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
#93. Originality and creativity are nothing but the result of the wise management of combinations. The creative genius combines more rapidly, and with a greater critical sense of what gets tossed out and what gets saved, the same material that the failed genius has to work with.
Umberto Eco
#95. A wise man looks upon men as he does on horses; all their comparisons of title, wealth, and place, he consider but as harness.
Robert Cecil
#96. We must believe that He permits it [this war] for some wise purpose of his own, mysterious and unknown to us; and though with ourlimited understandings we may not be able to comprehend it, yet we cannot but believe, that he who made the world still governs it.
Abraham Lincoln
#97. 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
#98. But as a wise and great teacher once explained so patiently, all good stories - stories that touch your soul, stories that change your nature, stories that cause you to become a better person from their telling-these stories always contain truth.
Camron Wright
#99. None But such as are good men can give good things, And that which is not good, is not delicious To a well-govern'd and wise appetite.
John Milton
#100. Everyone loved her, but her greatest sorrow was that she could find no one to love in return, since all the men were much too stupid and ugly to mate with one so beautiful and wise.
L. Frank Baum
