Quotes About Wisdom

How do you know antiquity was foolish? How do you know the present is wise? Who made it foolish? Who made it wise?

If slavery, limited as it yet is, now threatens to subvert the Constitution, how can we as wise and prudent statesmen, enlarge its boundaries and increase its influence, and thus increase already impending dangers?

The fool inherits, but the wise must get.

Perhaps I am not as wise as I like to think I am.

The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

I never mean to be disrespectful, and I don't mean to be a wise guy.

The American people may not be the best-educated, but they're very wise at heart.

I never think of myself as wise. I think of myself as possessing a critical intelligence which I intend to allow to operate.

Politics, like theater, is one of those things where you've got to be wise enough to know when to leave.

We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.

Fishing is a hard job. Fishing at night. Rain. Day, night. You have to be wise and smart. And quick.

I endeavor to be wise when I cannot be merry, easy when I cannot be glad, content with what cannot be mended and patient when there be no redress.

The drive toward Life is protective, thoughtful, vulnerable, and invested in immaculate love. It is this last that marks the difference between a wise heart muddy with real life experiences in the trenches and a dry heart that functions on rote concepts alone.

Giving up your core business in search of a phantom audience is not wise.

Where is instruction in relationships, in the management of career, in the raising of children, in the pursuit of friendship, in the wise approach to anxiety and death? All this sort of stuff I craved to learn about when I was a student and down to this day.

A wise woman knows how to summon her courage and do what is right, rather than what is easy.

I don't think a wise thing at this moment is for Israel to launch a military attack on Iran.

It's not wise to limit firms' expansion projects. Let us only be limited by the market.

I love reading Warren Buffett's letters, and I love contrasting his words with his actions. He's a very wise guy.

When I was a very young actor, I made a wise move. I invested in the stock market.

There are some persons in this world, who, unable to give better proof of being wise, take a strange delight in showing what they think they have sagaciously read in mankind by uncharitable suspicions of them.

A wise traveler never depreciates their own country.

I am content with nothing, restless and ambitious... and I despise myself for the vanity, which formed half the stimulus to my exertions. Oh would that I were one of those plodding wise fools who having once set their hand to the plough go on nothing doubting.

When it comes to Chinese food I have always operated under the policy that the less known about the preparation the better. A wise diner who is invited to visit the kitchen replies by saying, as politely as possible, that he has a pressing engagement elsewhere.