Wise Quotes

Divide and rule, the politician cries;Unite and lead, is watchword of the wise.

~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Find the courage to ask yourself the questions your afraid to hear the answer to? Why... Because it's the only way you'll know which direction your truth lays.

~ Nikki Rowe

Older doesn't always mean wiser. It just means that you've had more time to do the same things over and over again- right, wrong, and different.

~ Carew Papritz

You can lose a friend in springtime easier than any other season if you're too curious.

~ Frances Hodgson Burnett

The decisions you make today, could affect the rest of your life, be wise.

~ Charmaine J. Forde

Though the object of being a Great Power is to be able to fight a Great War, the only way of remaining a Great Power is not to fight one.

~ A.j.p. Taylor

You understand the logic behind the illogical, Alyssa. It's in your nature to find tranquility amid the madness. And that's what we're doing here. We are giving our food a fighting chance.

~ A.g. Howard

How can a rational being be ennobled by any thing that is not obtained by its own exertions?

~ Mary Wollstonecraft

And then something invisible snapped insider her, and that which had come together commenced to fall apart.

~ John Green

How will I ever get out of this labyrinth! to a margin note written in her loop-heavy cursive: Straight & Fast.

~ John Green

Don't do anything that you wouldn't feel comfortable reading about in the newspaper the next day.

~ Joel Osteen

The way of the superior person is threefold; virtuous, they are free from anxieties; wise they are free from perplexities; and bold they are free from fear.

~ Confucius

Things can turn out differently, Apollo. That's the nice thing about being human. We only have one life, but we can choose what kind of story it's going to be.

~ Rick Riordan

I am too young to be called wise and I am too old to be called young.

~ Santosh Kalwar

Most of the luxuries, and many of the so called comforts of life, are not only indispensable, but positive hinderances to the elevation of mankind. With respect to luxuries and comforts, the wisest have ever lived a more simple and meagre life than the poor.

~ Henry David Thoreau

I don't agree that when you love, you are blind or fool. You just get wiser and see clearer what is best and of worth.

~ Hark Herald Sarmiento

I am enormously wise and abysmally ignorant

~ William Saroyan

Do not constantly spend your time complaining about a problem you may be having or may be up against, focus your time toward correcting the problem. Always remember, Time is value!

~ Victoria Addino

Smartass Disciple: Master, we should not spend our time to low life like them.Master of Stupidity: If I don’t, then how should I lead men like you to be wiser?

~ Toba Beta

The trouble with Grace, she thought, is that she is so literal. But that was the trouble with most people, when it came down to it; there were very few who enjoyed flights of fantasy, and to have that sort of mind--one which enjoyed dry with and understood the absurd--left one in a shrinking minority.

~ Alexander Mccall Smith

Then must you speakOf one that loved not wisely but too well,Of one not easily jealous but, being wrought,Perplexed in the extreme; of one whose hand,Like the base Indian, threw a pearl awayRicher than all his tribe; of one whose subdued eyes,Albeit unused to the melting mood,Drop tears as fast as the Arabian treesTheir medicinable gum. Set you down this,And say besides that in Aleppo once,Where a malignant and a turbaned TurkBeat a Venetian and traduced the state,I took by th' throat the circumcised dogAnd smote him thus.

~ William Shakespeare

Love the people who love you back.

~ Laura Ruby

So may the New Year be a happy one to you, happy to many more whose happiness depends on you!

~ Charles Dickens

The fools among us are presented to be wise and the wise among us are presented to be fools.

~ Santosh Kalwar

Smartass Disciple: My master, please show me how to be a wise man!Master of Stupidity: I can't. But I can show you how to do something wisely.

~ Toba Beta

Beware the irrational, however seductive. Shun the ‘transcendent’ and all who invite you to subordinate or annihilate yourself. Don’t be afraid to be thought arrogant or selfish. Picture all experts as if they were mammals. Never be a spectator of unfairness or stupidity. Seek out argument and disputation for their own sake; the grave will provide plenty of time for silence.

~ Christopher Hitchens

if a sheep eats bushes does it eat flowers too?a sheep eats whatever it findseven a flower with thorn?even a flower with thorns.then what's the good of thorns?

~ Antoine De Saint-Exupéry

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

The only way to see everything, my dear, is to see it absolutely.

~ Sherry Lynn Ferguson

Lead looked to his hand and saw sparkling chunks of glass in the cracks of the road. He saw ants running around the cracks, infinitely small. His blood ran into the cracks, creating rivers for the industrious ants to perplex over. Lead smiled at the creatures, for he understood that there is no difference between them and us in their wanderings and labor.

~ Nathan Yocum

A wise warrior learns from her mistakes.

~ Leigh Bardugo

Help means give me a hand.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Hester glowered at her. “The biggest mistake a villain can make is to get caught up in revenge. Hansel and Gretel were two hungry kids trying to survive in the Woods. Mother thought she’d captured another pair of greedy, gluttonous brats, only to grossly underestimate them. Hansel and Gretel killed her because they had to. It wasn’t personal.” She glanced back at the old siblings. “Doesn’t mean I can stand the sight of ’em, of course. But it also doesn’t mean their story has anything to do with mine anymore.

~ Soman Chainani

Perhaps we are not really sinners in the hands of an angry God, after all. Perhaps we are all more like seedlings in the hands of a wise gardener.

~ Seth Adam Smith

A wise man lays up treasures in the Kingdom of our Father, so as to live a happy eternal life

~ Sunday Adelaja

It's a fine thing to be clever, but too much cleverness usually produces the same result as ignorance.-Lady Berwick

~ Lisa Kleypas

Oh, Gilbert, don't let's ever grow too old and wise... no, not too old and silly for fairyland.

~ L.m. Montgomery

Wise are those who keep asking questions when everyone around them think they know the answers.

~ J. Bartell

It is wise to consider a matter carefully before jumping in carelessly.

~ Nabil N. Jamal

Don't be afraid to be weird for being wise.

~ Craig Groeschel