Wise Quotes (561)
Quotes and citations about wise
Yes. Otherwise I could have done a lot of Hollywood movies. After Crouching Tiger I got a lot of offers, but I turned them down because they were all victim roles - poor girls sold to America to be a wife or whatever. I know I have the ability to go deeper, to take on more original roles than that... view
By: Zhang Ziyi
Everyone knows we get paid a lot of money, so why pretend otherwise?.. view
By: Catherine Zeta-Jones
A wise man writes down what he thinks, a stupid man forgets what he thinks, a complete idiot punishes himself for what he thinks... view
By: Jason Zebehazy
I think I have a dark view of the world. I have to make everything funny, otherwise it all seems so sad... view
By: Moon Unit Zappa
The wise man reads both books and life itself... view
By: Lin Yutang
Our ability to create has outreached our ability to use wisely the products of our invention... view
By: Whitney M. Young
Be wise with speed.. view
By: Edward Young
Wise it is to comprehend the whole... view
By: Edward Young
The weak have remedies, the wise have joys.. view
By: Edward Young
It is wise for us to forget our troubles, there are always new ones to replace them... view
By: Brigham Young
Look at those they call unfortunate and at a closer view, you'll find many of them are unwise... view
By: Andrew Young
Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people... view
By: William Butler Yeats
If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise... view
By: William Butler Yeats
It takes a wise man to recognize a wise man... view
By: Xenophanes
Men become wise just as they become rich, more by what they save than by what they receive... view
By: Wilbur Wright
If we bring not the good courage of minds covetous of truth, and truth only, prepared to hear all things, and decide upon all things, according to evidence, we should do more wisely to sit down contented in ignorance, than to bestir ourselves only to reap disappointment... view
By: Frances Wright
The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away.. view
By: William Wordsworth
The care of a wise and good man for his only son is inferior to the regard of the great Parent of the universe for his creatures... view
By: John Woolman
It seems like such a terrible shame that innocent civilians have to get hurt in wars, otherwise combat would be such a wonderfully healthy way to rid the human race of unneeded trash... view
By: Fred Woodworth
Neither James Madison, for whom this lecture is named, nor any of the other Framers of the Constitution, were oblivious, careless, or otherwise unaware of the words they chose for the document and its Bill of Rights... view
By: Diane Wood
Our greatest stupidities may be very wise... view
By: Ludwig Wittgenstein
I feel that it is healthier to look out at the world through a window than through a mirror. Otherwise, all you see is yourself and whatever is behind you... view
By: Bill Withers
Our country - whether bounded by the St. John's and the Sabine, or however otherwise bounded or described, and be the measurements more or less.. view
By: Robert Charles Winthrop
We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely... view
By: E. O. Wilson
I found college useful for a lot of other reasons. It exposed me to a great many influences I wouldn't otherwise have encountered, and gave me a lot of time with some very intelligent people whose thoughts are still with me... view
By: Walter Jon Williams
A smart man makes a mistake, learns from it, and never makes that mistake again. But a wise man finds a smart man and learns from him how to avoid the mistake altogether... view
By: Roy H. Williams
Job's avoidance of rebellion against God has nothing to do with God being good or wise or anything like that.. view
By: George C. Williams
Most evolving lineages, human or otherwise, when threatened with extinction, don't do anything special to avoid it... view
By: George C. Williams
Likewise today, some Christians are content to merely exist until they die. They don't want to risk anything, to believe God, to grow or mature. They refuse to believe his Word, and have become hardened in their unbelief. Now they're living just to die... view
By: David Wilkerson
The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves... view
By: Oscar Wilde
I only came to serve you, and if you think otherwise, I must let you know that you are mistaken... view
By: Jonathan Wild
The shallow consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise man sees in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws... view
By: Walt Whitman
It is never wise to try to appear to be more clever than you are. It is sometimes wise to appear slightly less so... view
By: William Whitelaw
Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct form ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended... view
By: Alfred North Whitehead
No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude... view
By: Alfred North Whitehead
A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world... view
By: Paul Dudley White
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... view
By: Bryan White
Behind it all is surely an idea so simple, so beautiful, that when we grasp it - in a decade, a century, or a millennium - we will all say to each other, how could it have been otherwise? How could we have been so stupid?.. view
By: John Archibald Wheeler
Listening is such a simple act. It requires us to be present, and that takes practice, but we don't have to do anything else. We don't have to advise, or coach, or sound wise. We just have to be willing to sit there and listen... view
By: Margaret J. Wheatley
So along with several very popular Internet sites, talk radio has served as alternative media that gives listeners information that they otherwise would not hear... view
By: Paul Weyrich
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- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
- Samuel Johnson
- Plato
- Thomas Huxley
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
- Alexander Pope
- William Shakespeare
- Michel de Montaigne
- Jonathan Swift
- Bryant H. McGill
- Voltaire
- William Arthur Ward
- Thomas Jefferson
- Edward Young
- Sara Teasdale
- Sophocles
- George Bernard Shaw
- Sun Tzu
- Horace
- George Santayana
- Titus Maccius Plautus
- Walter Pater
- George Orwell
- H. L. Mencken
- Niccolo Machiavelli
- Georg C. Lichtenberg
- Walter Savage Landor
- Henry A. Kissinger
- Victor Hugo