Quotes About Wise

Doctor. The word for healer and wise man throughout the universe. We get that word from you, you know?' River Song, A Good Man Goes to War

A fool can put on his coat better than a wise man can put it on for him.

If you want to stay in the business then you've got to be a bit shrewd, haven't you?

A swan is out of place among crows, a lion among bulls, a horse among asses, and a wise man among fools.

In nearly all cases, resistance must continue to drive dictators out of power. Success is most often determined not by negotiating a settlement but through the wise use of the most appropriate and powerful means of resistance available. It

Perhaps his might be one of the natures where a wise estimate of consequences is fused in the fires of that passionate belief which determines the consequences it believes in.

I like Eeyore. He's sensible. A sober outlook on life never hurt anyone.

Many receive advice, only the wise profit by it.

He who will not economize will have to agonize.

Many have been the wise speeches of fools, though not so many as the foolish speeches of wise men.

It is in the half fools and the half wise that the greatest danger lies.

We have plenty of money to do everything we want to do, if we do it smart.

Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.

Angels want peace; devils want war! Wise man wants tranquillity and creation; stupid man wants noise and destruction!

began to establish their own kingdoms, all over the land that once

Luck can be assisted. It is not all chance with the wise.

The fool generalizes the particular; the nerd particularizes the general; some do both; and the wise does neither.

The wise man listens to meaning; the fool only gets the noise. The modern Greek poet C. P. Cavafy wrote a piece in 1915 after Philostratus' adage "For the gods perceive things in the future, ordinary people things in the present, but the wise perceive things about to happen.

The angel and apostle of the coming revelation must be a woman, indeed, but lofty, pure, and beautiful; and wise, moreover, not through dusky grief, but the ethereal medium of joy; and showing how sacred love should make us happy, by the truest test of a life successful to such an end!

The myth of the starving artist was a hoax. Once you realized that everything was a hoax you got wise and began to bleed and burn your fellow man. I'd build an empire upon the broken bodies and lives of helpless men, women, and children—I'd shove it to them all the way. I'd show them!

I try to be very modest with what I do. I'm not a frivolous spender.

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.

I've made mistakes, been broken by evil, and wished fervently for my life to be taken from me. The past will never change. But my imperfect past brought me here, and it's a remarkable place to be. All I've suffered, all you have suffered, Kathryn, has not made us weak. It has made us wise.

To a wise man, the whole earth is open, because the true country of a virtuous soul is the entire universe.