Top 100 Wise Is Quotes
#2. The best test of whether someone is extremely stupid (or extremely wise) is whether financial and political news makes sense to him.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#3. It is a queer thing. In a time of great need, when powerful leadership is demanded, the people - confused and excited - hear only the strident voices of the audacious, and refuse to listen to the voice of wisdom which, being wise, is temperate.
Lloyd C. Douglas
#4. Your love, your facial expression, your spirit and your words to the wise is my fervency: special for my mom and dad
S. Ikom Afriani
#6. I think the hardest thing to do in the world, show-business-wise, is write comedy.
Carol Burnett
#7. But I already saw no great difference between the psyche and spirituality. To amass knowledge without becoming wise is not my idea of progress in therapy.
M. Scott Peck
#8. 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
#10. What makes you wise is not what you learn, but what you practice. What makes you wealthy is not what you earn, but what you invest. So, invest in what to practice, and practice what to invest.
Michael Peshkam
#11. It seems to me that smart people seem to know things and wise people know how to use what they know. Smart is a big help to a man; wise is a big help to lots of men.
Dan Groat
#13. The greatest thing for me football-wise is that it's a test of will.
Troy Polamalu
#14. The road, lyric-wise, is a trap, and a bore. Maybe it's interesting to me, but I don't think it's a connecting thing with other humans. What is there to write about? Truck stops, hotels, clubs?
Dean Wareham
#15. A drawing is always dragged down to the level of its caption.
A word to the wise is not sufficient if it doesn't make sense.
James Thurber
#16. Wise is what you want to be. Smart is easy compared to wise.
Jerry Seinfeld
#17. Whoever is not too wise is wise.
[Lat., Quisquis plus justo non sapit, ille sapit.]
Martial
#19. That you are fair or wise is vain,
Or strong, or rich, or generous;
You must have also the untaught strain
That sheds beauty on the rose.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#20. As they say, a word to the wise is sufficient. And here I've gone and written five paragraphs.
Orson Scott Card
#23. To be ignorant is to be in the dark;
to be wise is to be in the light.
An illiterate person is disabled intellectually;
an unenlightened person is handicapped spiritually.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#24. Ignorance is a horrible thing. But arrogance, the belief that knowing a little more than the ignorant makes you wise, is more horrible still.
James Rozoff
#25. The wise is one only. It is unwilling and willing to be called by the name of Zeus.
Heraclitus
#26. Wise is the man who has the potential for height in his muscles but who renounces climbing in his consciousness. By virtue of his gaze, he has all hills, and by virtue of his position, all valleys.
Fernando Pessoa
#27. A word to the wise is
unnecessary.
Evan Esar
#28. The art of being wise is to respond to everything with kindness and love.
Debasish Mridha
#30. We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
#31. A word to the wise is enough.
Plautus
#32. When I was young and bold and strong,
The right was right, the wrong was wrong.
With plume on high and flag unfurled,
I rode away to right the world.
But now I'm old - and good and bad,
Are woven in a crazy plaid.
I sit and say the world is so,
And wise is s/he who lets it go.
Dorothy Parker
#33. Crying with the wise is better than laughing with the fool.
Gautama Buddha
#34. In my works, the geography map-wise is accurate - roads are where I say they are, and go from this town to the next as I say they do, and yes, it would take a curricle that long to travel that distance.
Stephanie Laurens
#35. I grew up in Germany for a little while, and all my German friends said that Seattle, weather and energy-wise, is a lot like West Germany. It's true.
Daniel Breaker
#36. Irregularity is inherent in our very nature; expecting people to be perfectly wise is as crazy as putting wings on dogs or horns on eagles
Voltaire
#37. 207. He who walks in the company of fools suffers a long way; company with fools, as with an enemy, is always painful; company with the wise is pleasure, like meeting with kinsfolk.
Anonymous
#38. He who is wise is steps away from riches.
He who is loving is steps away from God.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#39. Amidst the rush and confusion of modern life something old and wise is trying to catch up with us. Whereas simple knowledge tends to divide things, genuine wisdom tends to make meaningful unity possible.
Michael Meade
#40. True consistency, that of the prudent and the wise, is to act in conformity with circumstances and not to act always the same way under a change of circumstances.
John C. Calhoun
#41. Harvard University psychologist William James summed it up beautifully. 'The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.' This
Ashwin Sanghi
#42. To look wise is quite as good as understanding a thing, and very much easier.
Oscar Wilde
#44. The disadvantage of becoming wise is that you realize how foolish you've been.
Evan Esar
#45. Wise is the man who contents himself with the spectacle of the world.
Ricardo Reis
#46. The intellect of the wise is like glass; it admits the light of heaven and reflects it.
Augustus Hare
#47. Alec laughed, a short, brittle laugh. The day I'm wise is the day you're careful.
Cassandra Clare
#48. The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense.
Dean Inge
#49. A word to the wise is sufficient
Plautus
#50. Wise is the man who says what needs to be said, but not all that could be said.
Marvin J. Ashton
#51. Wise is he who is satisfied with the spectacle of the world.
Ricardo Reis
#52. The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool.
Epicurus
#53. History never recorded this phrase: 'The Mass of Wise.' Because the wise is not too abundant to form masses!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#54. He who walks in the company of fools suffers much. Company with fools, as with an enemy, is always painful. Company with the wise is pleasure, like meeting with kinfolk.
Gautama Buddha
#55. The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook.
William James
#56. What audiences end up with word-wise is a hackneyed, completely derivative copy of old Hollywood romances, a movie that reeks of phoniness and lacks even minimal originality.
Kenneth Turan
#57. A word to the wise is enough, and many words won't fill a bushel.
Benjamin Franklin
#58. But the work of the wise is one thing and the work of the merely clever is another.
Victor Hugo
#59. He who is not just is severe, he who is not wise is sad.
Voltaire
#60. The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
David Brooks
#61. Life is meant to be a celebration! It shouldn't be necessary to set aside special times to remind us of this fact. Wise is the person who finds a reason to make every day a special one.
Leo Buscaglia
#63. Wise is the man who learns the nonverbal language of his wife, who notes the nod and discerns the gestures. It's not just what is said, but how. It's not just how, but when. It's not just when, but where. Good husbanding is good decoding. You've got to read the signs.
Max Lucado
#64. One of the rudest things you can do, food-wise, is to stare at someone in the act of eating. It draws attention to the unseemly fact that eating is a bodily function - like animals, we are trapped by our hungers, but we do our best to disguise them with such civilized props as menus and forks.
Bee Wilson
#65. Herein is the evil of ignorance, that he who is neither good nor wise is nevertheless satisfied with himself: he had no desire for that of which he feels no want.
Plato
#66. 4The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning, but the heart of fools is in the house of pleasure.
Anonymous
#67. Wise is the person at either end. Who can in due measure spare as well as spend.
Lucian
#68. Jokes are another example of stupidity... we are so wise and so clever and we do stupid stuff, how wise is that?
Jokes on stage of being serious... when you aren't serious what you get is more likely somebody being in state of seriousness.
Deyth Banger
#70. Your choice of people to associate with, both personally and business-wise, is one of the most important choices you make. If you associate with turkeys, you will never fly with the eagles.
Brian Tracy
#72. The truth is that since the first book, I have wanted to emulate Benjamin Franklin and put together a healthy, wealthy and wise trilogy and so healthy was 'The 4-Hour Body,' wealthy was 'The 4-Hour Workweek' and then wise is 'The 4-Hour Chef.'
Timothy Ferriss
#73. Who is Silvia What is she, That all our swains commend her Holy, fair, and wise is she.
William Shakespeare
#74. Holy, fair, and wise is she;
The heaven such grace did lend her,
That she might admired be.
William Shakespeare
#75. N-D-A spelt else wise is to be in our D-N-A, was a thought reaffirmed.
Rajat Mishra
#76. To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.
Edmund Burke
#77. The problem with the wise is they are so filled with doubts and questions, while fools are so certain about things.
Shannon L. Alder
#79. But wise is the man who disdains no character, but with searching glance explores him to the root and cause of all.
Nikolai Gogol
#80. The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
Aristotle.
#82. It's not really important to make skillful movies. I think expressing yourself really well, skill-wise, is not as important. I want it to be sort of raw and rough but new and fun to watch.
Takashi Miike
#83. He who is virtuous is wise; and he who is wise is good; and he who is good is happy.
Boethius
#84. Pilgrimage to the place of the wise is to find escape from the flame of separateness.
Rumi
#85. The fool who thinks he is wise is just a fool. The fool who knows he is a fool is wise indeed.
Gautama Buddha
#86. Samuel, wise is relative. Wise is listening to your heart and letting it decide what to do. -Joseph Dahr.
Ray Anyasi
#87. Friendship of the wise is good; a wise enemy is better than a foolish friend.
Rumi
#88. A person God himself deems as wise is one who not only hears His voice, but immediately begins to act upon His instruction.
Erwin McManus
#89. Wise is the man who monotonizes his existence, for then each minor incident seems a marvel.
Fernando Pessoa
#90. Still anyone who trusts a serpent deserves its bite. The wise see a creature for what it is, not what it says it may be.
Alice Hoffman
#91. 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
#92. The business conduct of the disciples of wise men is truthful and faithful ... He does not allow himself to be made a surety or a guarantor and does not accept the power of attorney ... He lends money and is gracious. He shall not take away business from his fellow man.
Maimonides
#93. 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
#94. Some immemorial imbecilities have been added deliberately, on the ground that it is just as interesting to note how foolish men have been as to note how wise they have been.
H.L. Mencken
#95. O sleepers! what a thing is slumber! Sleep resembles death. Ah, why then dost thou not work in such wise as that after death thou mayst retain a resemblance to perfect life, when, during life, thou art in sleep so like to the hapless dead?
Leonardo Da Vinci
#96. Every time a message seems to grab us, and we think, 'I just might try it,' we are at the nexus of choice and persuasion that is advertising.
Andrew Hacker
#97. Be still, then, thou uneasy mortal; know that God is unerringly wise; and be assured that, amidst the greatest multiplicity of beings, He does not overlook thee.
James Hervey
#98. 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
#99. The starting point for building great relationships is making wise decisions about who we allow close to us. We need people who will build us up and take us forward, and good friends will do just that.
Brian Houston
#100. What shelter to grow ripe is ours? What leisure to grow wise?
Matthew Arnold
