Top 100 You Are Wise Quotes
#1. Before, you are wise; after, you are wise. In between you are otherwise
David Zindell
#2. 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
#3. 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
#4. 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
#5. Unveil a person's thoughts,
and you are shrewd.
Unveil a person's desires,
and you are wise.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#6. Be merry if you are wise.
Martial
#7. If you are wise you won't be deceived by the innocent airs of those whom you have once found to be dangerous.
Aesop
#8. True wisdom is to see and understand your relationship with the universe. When you gain that relational knowledge, then you are wise.
Frederick Lenz
#9. If you are wise, all men will be your friends and kindred, for you will be useful.
Plato
#10. Be cheerful, if you are wise.
Martial
#11. How do you know that you are wise without trying to share thoughts with idiots?
Boris Zubry
#13. If you read one book you are a clone. If you read two books you are confused. If you read ten books you have your own voice. And if you read one hundred books you are wise. (paraphrase)
Timothy Keller
#14. Let your first business be to perform your duties at home. But, inasmuch as you are wise stewards, you will find time for social duties ... By seeking to perform every duty you will find that your capacity will increase, and you will be astonished at what you can accomplish.
Eliza R. Snow
#15. He leaned his head in his hands, as if the burden he bore were too great for endurance. 'You are wise', he said, then raised his head and stared at her with unflinching hatred. 'I wish you were a foolish woman I could despise, damn you!
Marion Zimmer Bradley
#16. Perhaps this is one of the last remaining strands of my Catholic upbringing, but to me the word 'worship' means absolute unquestioning affirmation of the authority of the deity. I'll not have that in my life. If you are wise, neither will you.
Brendan Myers
#18. If you are wise,
You will mingle one thing with the other-
Not hoping without doubt;
Not doubting without hope.
Seneca The Younger
#19. If you are wise, live as you can; if you cannot, live as you would.
Baltasar Gracian
#20. 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
#21. 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
#22. 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
#23. 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
#24. 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
#25. 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
#26. 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
#27. You are wise only if despite of being capable of taking a revenge & holding onto a grudge, you choose to forgive!
Anamika Mishra
#28. 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
#29. When you are in love you are not wise; or, when you are wise you are not in love.
Publilius Syrus
#30. If you are wise, be wise; keep what goods the gods provide you.
Plautus
#31. You are wise, witty and wonderful, but you spend too much time reading this sort of stuff.
Frank Crane
#32. 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
#33. 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
#34. 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.
#35. 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
#36. If you are wise, you will dread a prosperity which only loads you with more.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#37. - You may always talk to me, honey ... - Started suddenly bright white moon. - The stars are too young to give you a wise advice, yet.
Galina Nelson
#38. Who are you, who is so wise in the way of alien fungus?
John Scalzi
#39. When you are in the company of lunatics, behave like a lunatic. When you are in the company of intelligentsias, speak with brilliance ... that is how a chameleon behaves, the territory changes it, and it adapts to the changes.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#40. Stupidy is easy, everyone can learn it... You just say to stupid stuff and you are the big Job,... but try to be a wise that's what's hard and most people just try to destroy the wise people why??
Because they are too stupid to realease it!
Deyth Banger
#41. Be good to people only if you like anal sex.
That's how kind people are.
Honeya
#42. To be engaged to marry some one with whom you are not in love is an inevitable step in a world where the existence of passion is only a traveler's story brought from the heart of deep forests and told so rarely that wise people doubt whether the story can be true.
Virginia Woolf
#43. Yes, I'm nervous. You'll find in time most people are. They simply learn better how to disguise it, and sometimes, if they're wise, how to use their anxiety to serve the public good.
Gregory Maguire
#44. There are some things you can't learn at any university, except for one, the University of Life ... the only college where everyone is a permanent student.
E.A. Bucchianeri
#45. Now that we are, as you say, 'in the same boat,' would it not be wise for us to have another conference ... and the sooner the better.
Winston Churchill
#46. I think with you, that nothing is of more importance for the public weal, than to form and train up youth in wisdom and virtue. Wise and good men are in my opinion, the strength of the state; more so than riches or arms.
Benjamin Franklin
#47. You expected too much of me' I told him, and he bowed his head. 'I don't know where you brought your grand ideas of men and women from. I don't want to know' I added hastily. But I must have been a prettier word that this' I said: 'are you quite sure that you were wise in leaving it?
J.M. Barrie
#48. If you are to be among the noble you must be noble. If you are to be among the wise, you must be wise, if you would be among the pure in heart, you must be pure in heart.
Hugh B. Brown
#49. 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
#50. Do you want to give a special gift in the New Year to someone you love? Then let him or her realize this: We are the main shepherd of our fate, we are the main designer of our destiny!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#51. Leaving others alone is a sign of cowardice, whether you are involved in a war or in a relationship.
Pratik Akkawar
#52. Be at peace with your own soul, then the heavens and the earth will be at peace with you. The Druidecht are truly wise.
Jeff Wheeler
#53. If you say to me: "Master, it would seem that you weren't too terribly wise to have written these bits of nonsense and pleasant mockeries," I respond that you are hardly more so in finding amusement in reading them.
Francois Rabelais
#54. When you are feeling too dull and too domesticated get on a horse, sit tall in the saddle, and for a moment live in a world that feels like risk and adventure.
Julia Cameron
#55. Note to the wise: whenever someone insists that he wants to buy something from you, but tells you there's no real value in it yet, two things are happening: he's lying, and you're being taken.
Mike Stackpole
#56. Why are you smiling?'
'I'm relieved,' I said honestly. 'I was worried I'd given myself cadmium poisoning, or I had some mysterious disease. This is just someone trying to kill me.
Patrick Rothfuss
#57. When you are angry, close your eyes, you will regain your inner peace.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#58. My friend, when you always say "God is in control", while you have your feet on the brake pad, you are not going anywhere! Wise up!
Israelmore Ayivor
#59. If you don't listen to your animal instincts, you are placing too much importance on knowledge thereby not being wise.
Karen Salmansohn
#60. Gregori jolted back. "Snap! You couldn't control one measly mortal?"
Roman clenched his fists. "No."
Gregori slapped a hand against his brow. "Snap!"
"Why the hell are you snapping? Are you a turtle?" It was times like this that firing Gregori
seemed to be the wise choice.
Kerrelyn Sparks
#61. 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
#62. But Johannes had said, Politeness is something you owe other people, because when you show a little courtesy, everything becomes easier and better. But first and foremost, it's something you owe yourself. You are David.
Anne Holm
#63. There are always two kinds of people in every country: Progressives and reactionaries; wise people and ignorant; democrats and fascists; libertarians and oppressive. All struggles happen between these two parties. If you are in the first group, your greatest reward will be dignity and victory!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#64. If the majority doesn't laugh at you, beware that you must be saying something wrong. When the majority thinks you are a fool, only then is there some possibility of you being a wise man.
Laozi
#66. In quiet moments when you think about it, you recognize what is critically important in life and what isn't. Be wise and don't let good things crowd out those that are essential.
Richard G. Scott
#67. Only if you are afraid of looking foolish, and I would have looked far more foolish if I persisted with an erroneous belief.' Eragon said.
Why, little one, you just said something wise!'Saphira teased.
Christopher Paolini
#68. This is beyond understanding." said the king. "You are the wisest man alive. You know what is preparing. Why do you not make a plan to save yourself?"
And Merlin said quietly, "Because I am wise. In the combat between wisdom and feeling, wisdom never wins.
John Steinbeck
#69. Babies are thinking and attracting before they are speaking. Even though you are only months old in your physical body, you are a very old and wise Creator, focused in that baby's body.
Esther Hicks
#71. Applauds of the ignorant majority are worthless; applauds of the wise minority are priceless! Look carefully, who are applauding you? Look carefully, who are blessing you? Mud in the ground or stars in the sky?
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#72. I am not sure if women are attracted to genius. Can you imagine the wise wizard winning the woman over the gallant swordsman? It seems rather otherworldly in more ways than one.
Criss Jami
#73. If you are the boss it's wise to remember that there are lots of things you don't know and lots of people who hope you won't find out.
Michael Josephson
#74. Seeing depends on knowledge / And knowledge, of course, on your college / But when you are erudite and wise / What matters is to use your eyes.
Ernst Gombrich
#75. Cardinal: You are a wise man. You will lead us well.
Mortati: I am an old man. I would lead you briefly.
Dan Brown
#76. In any story universe, you don't just want to keep adding to it when there are places and planets that exist that will already achieve the same thing for you story-wise. You don't want to just keep making it bigger for no good reason.
Troy Denning
#77. When you know for yourselves, 'These things are wholesome; these things are blameless; these things are praised by the wise; these things, if undertaken and practiced, lead to welfare and happiness,' then you should engage in them.
Gautama Buddha
#78. If you are wearing a bandana you better have something wise to say, because you are starting with a credibility deficit.
Demetri Martin
#79. Wow," she said. "It's like you're teaching me something and being all wise."
"You are not easy to get along with," Skulduggery said.
Derek Landy
#80. Grudges are like hand grenades: it is wise to release them before they destroy you.
Barbara Johnson
#81. Job's avoidance of rebellion against God has nothing to do with God being good or wise or anything like that; it's strictly because God is so powerful, and you don't fight something when you are so much weaker than that which you would fight.
George C. Williams
#82. Only the foolish insist on making their own mistakes when they can learn from the mistakes of others. Only the wise will understand that success leaves clues, and those clues are there for you to use to achieve great things.
John Patrick Hickey
#83. Never saw off the branch you are on, unless you are being hanged from it.
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
#84. Don't always seek the approval of others concerning your goals or dreams. Not everyone wants to see you succeed, just because they are not successful.
Amaka Imani Nkosazana
#85. He told her, You are a wise woman.
Pleasure warmed her voice. I do have my moments, don't I?
Thea Harrison
#86. [ ... ] There are tales among us that you have sold yourself to the devil, and I know not what.'
'We all have, have we not?' returned the stranger, looking up. 'If we were fewer in number, perhaps he would give better wages.
Charles Dickens
#87. You are where you are in life because of what you believe is possible for yourself.
Oprah Winfrey
#88. It is a terrifying thing when the animals laugh at the hunter. Take a tip from Harlequin and the Joker. If you imitate a fool well, you are not likely to be fooled by others. To be it bluntly, albeit unorginally: A fool who knows he is a fool is indeed a wise man.
Anton Szandor LaVey
#89. If you feel that favors can be returned then you are wrong, no matter how ever big or small it is, it can never be returned. Favor is always for lifetime ...
Honeya
#90. Our achievements of today are but the sum total of our thoughts of yesterday. You are today where the thoughts of yesterday have brought you and you will be tomorrow where the thoughts of today take you.
Blaise Pascal
#91. The words you use can influence your life. Positive words are well spring of life.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#92. I suppose you can guess the whole story now? After all, it's a primitive story. A man had two enemies. He was a wise man. And so he discovered that two enemies are better than one.
G.K. Chesterton
#93. The best fights are the ones you don't have, a wise man once said to me.
Lee Child
#94. I thought that I was in heaven
But I was sure surprised
Heaven help me, I didn't see
The devil in your eyes
You look like an angel
Walk like an angel
Talk like an angel
But I got wise
You're the devil in disguise
Oh yes you are
The devil in disguise
Elvis Presley
#96. It's quite a thing, if you've never been in or known a small southern town. The people are not particularly sophisticated, naturally. They're not worldly wise in any way. But they tell you a story whenever they see you.
Harper Lee
#97. We are braver and wiser because they existed, those strong women and strong men ... We are who we are because they were who they were. It's wise to know where you come from, who called your name.
Maya Angelou
#98. And of course you believed their wise counsel," said Elizabeth lightly, "because people who have never met me are always the best judge of my character.
Jennifer Chiaverini
#99. I want to see you again," Greystone said quietly.
"I'm not certain that's wise. We are of different worlds, Your Grace. In
yours, I am but one night and in mine you are destined to be merely a
memory.
Lorraine Heath
