Wise Quotes - Page 106

Sometimes 'Hmm' is the wisest thing to say.

Numerous are the academic professors, but rare are wise and noble teachers.

It's always better to be wise than to be smart.

and I get refill number three or four and the wine is making my bones loose and it's giving my hair a red sheen and my breasts are blooming and my eyes feel sultry and wise and the dress is water.

If you are wise you won't be deceived by the innocent airs of those whom you have once found to be dangerous.

Wise men say nothing in dangerous times

The one knowing what is profitable, and not the man knowing many things, is wise.

For there is one thing we must never forget... the majority can never replace the man. And no more than a hundred empty heads make one wise man will an heroic decision arise from a hundred cowards.

A wise man who stands firm is a statesman, a foolish man who stands firm is a catastrophe.

Where we are from... [s]tories are factual. If a farmer is declared a music virtuoso by the state, everyone had better start calling him maestro. And secretly, he'd be wise to start practicing the piano. For us, the story is more important than the person. If a man and his story are in conflict, it is the man who must change.

Wise criticism always begins with self-criticism.

Perhaps, it is just as well to be rash and foolish for a while. If writers were too wise, perhaps no books would be written at all. It might be better to ask yourself "Why?" afterwards than before. Anyway, the force from somewhere in Space which commands you to write in the first place, gives you no choice. You take up the pen when you are told, and write what is commanded. There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside you.

There is dignity in suffering; nobility in pain; but failure is a salted wound, that burns and burns again!

As you are old and reverend, you should be wise.

Be wise as thou art cruel, do not press My tongue-tied patience with too much disdain: Lest sorrow lend me words and words express, The manner of my pity-wanting pain.

There is not one wise man in twenty that will praise himself.

Rarely promise, but, if lawful, constantly perform.

What all the wise men promised has not happened and what all the dammed fools said would happen has come to pass.

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations.

Though pedantry denies, It's plain the Bible means That Solomon grew wise While talking with his queens.

The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.

It is as wise to moderate our belief as our desires.

The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always learns more from his opponents than from his fervent supporters. For his supporters will push him to disaster unless his opponents show him where the dangers are. So if he is wise he will often pray to be delivered from his friends, because they will ruin him. But though it hurts, he ought also to pray never to be left without opponents; for they keep him on the path of reason and good sense.

A wise reader reads the book of genius not with his heart, not so much with his brain, but with his spine. It is there that occurs the telltale tingle.

Profound hearts, wise minds, take life as God makes it; it is a long trial, and unintelligible preparation for the unknown destiny.