Wise Quotes

Kiss my foot, sir; my face is for mouths of consequence.

~ Thomas Hardy

One is not born wise, one becomes it.

~ Matthieu Ricard

My father told me that it is only a mad man that keeps bushy hairs. I asked him, what about the great men with bushy hairs?. He replied, education had made them mad, so study to be wise and sane.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Foolishness is darkness.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Fate has this weird way of making your wish come true by supplementing it with ten other spiteful things.

~ Pawan Mishra

Is the Starwife a witch? asked Firgil. Is any wise female a witch? Just because they have been blessed by the Green and given strange and beautiful gifts, does not mean they use them for evil purposes.

~ Robin Jarvis

We cannot tell that we are constantly splitting into duplicate selves because our consciousness rides smoothly along only one path in the endlessly forking chains

~ Martin Gardner

Sometimes those who love most deeply can't get past the weight of their own feelings.

~ James L. Halperin

You always have a choice to know your life and live with the understanding or simply give up, to the daily pressure of life.

~ Roshan Sharma

A wise man hears one word and understands two.

~ Anonymous

All I have learned in life really just boils down to this: there is only one difference between the so-called wise and the so-called foolish...and between those who are truly happy and those who are not. Those who are wise - and those who are happy - embrace and appreciate life. Those who are unhappy and unwise do not. That is all, that is the only difference.

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

Think wisely before you exercise an action. Having done so however, never look back and regret. That would be a shame

~ Thiruvalluvar

Fools put trust in promises, The wise in action.

~ A. Spencer

I'm not going to lie to you and say it gets easier, because it doesn't. It's just that you get used to it. The human animal has an amazing capacity to get used to almost anything.

~ Andrea Speed

But we know that we are no longer the same, and not only know that we are no longer the same, but know in what we are no longer the same, you wiser but not sadder, and I sadder but not wiser, for wiser I could hardly become without grave personal inconvenience, whereas sorrow is a thing you can keep on adding to all your life long, is it not, like a stamp or egg collection

~ Samuel Beckett

I guess you have to born in the Pit to find light where there isn’t any.

~ S.m. Mceachern

I believe that we are just carriers of God's wisdom that he uses to refurnish the earth He created. You are carrying part of that wisdom in you. When it's time to offload it, do so with all passion!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

No evil being was ever wise: they are all against every wise man's critics.

~ A Gentlemen

It's just hard now because... you're jealous. But your heart is so generous and warm, it will melt the bad feelings away. I am 100 percent positive that my mom is the wisest mother in the world.

~ Jane O'connor

There's no difference between a madman and a professor...it should be clear to you in the way they dress, act and think.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Let me thinkThinking is all I haveIf wisdom is a pretenseThen let me pretend to be wise

~ Walter Dean Myers

I learned over the years never to correct a fool or he will hate you; correct a wise man, and he will appreciate you.

~ Ziad K. Abdelnour

The electrical, electronics and wireless radio frequency (RF) industries are creating an increasingly high radiation environment for the human. This is comparable to the elevated radiation environment found at high altitudes and smart health researchers would be wise to contrast high altitude diseases to the epidemics of our time, such as Autism, Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD), Fibromyalgia, Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity (EHS), and so on.

~ Steven Magee

For the purpose of human health, it appears that it is wise to work and live below 4,900 feet.

~ Steven Magee

A wise man thus seeks not a straight path, but one that is the shortest or most convenient. The idea is to reach your goal comfortably and quickly rather than wasting your time in finding ‘Which is the straightest path?

~ Awdhesh Singh

Vigilance of the wisest kind is to incessantly remain open to the reality that what I ‘see’ is but a single thread and solitary shard of what ‘is’, for to assume otherwise is to surrender the wisdom of vigilance to the decay of ignorance.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

When wisdom gives way to whimsy and ethics fall to excitement, it is highly likely that the ground beneath me will ‘give way’ and it is I who will ‘fall.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

[B]eware trying to bend the Truth to fit your story instead of facing it head-on. That was your father's mistake. And that's how a Snake becomes a Lion and a Lion becomes a Snake. Because the more you bend the Truth to fit a story, the more it turns into Lies without you even realizing it.

~ Soman Chainani

It is the part of a wise man, I say, to refresh and restore himself in moderation with pleasant food and drink, with scents, with the beauty of green plants, with decoration, music, sports, the theater, and other things of this kind, which anyone can use without injury to another.

~ Baruch Spinoza

Even the proud in all their boasting, must fall silent before the wise.

~ Justin K. Mcfarlane Beau

Love is ecstasy of life

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

It is inevitable that I will leave a legacy simply because I cannot walk through life without leaving footprints as I walk. Therefore, I would be wise to consider the path before I make the prints.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Nearly everyday life leans over and says, ‘Come on down!’ But standing at the bottom looking up, it’s finally dawned on me that it’s not these invitations that have dug this hole. Rather, it’s the fact that I accepted them.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Your life is not a simulation, it's the real game. Play wisely.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Intelligence is not expecting people to understand what your intent is, it is anticipating how it will be perceived.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Everything that I hold will eventually be gone. Subsequently, the quality of my life will depend on whether I choose to appreciate those things ‘now’ or wait until ‘then.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Truth can hurt, but truth will bring you justice. Embrace the pain, and the truth shall set you free.

~ Lik Hock Yap Ivan

The wisest investments are made in good health intervention activities.

~ Ellen J. Barrier

Wise is the woman who rises above her circumstances.

~ Liz Curtis Higgs

Years ago, a group of good, wise, brave, God-fearing men stood up to claim and defend the human right for independence. Those men are now dead. Their work is not. If good, wise, brave, God-fearing men fail to stand up in their stead, that independence will cease to exist.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich