Wise Quotes - Page 17

• Wise men say nothing in dangerous times

  Aesop

  Life, Men, Advice

  Aesop (2014). “Aesop's Fables”, p.163, Penguin

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• Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Fashion, Ignorance, Knowledge

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• Even a queen stubs her toe, but a wise woman watches the path.

  Robert Jordan

  Queens, Watches, Path

  Robert Jordan (2010). “The Fires of Heaven: Book Five of 'The Wheel of Time'”, p.561, Macmillan

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• The more women there are about, the softer a wise man steps.

  Robert Jordan

  Men, Steps

  Robert Jordan (2010). “The Fires of Heaven: Book Five of 'The Wheel of Time'”, p.104, Macmillan

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• The wise are always impatient, for he that increases knowledge increases impatience of folly.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Wisdom, Impatient, Impatience

  Baltasar Gracian (2006). “The Art of Worldly Wisdom”, p.65, Shambhala Publications

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• Five minutes of today are worth as much to me, as five minutes in the next millennium.
  Let us be poised, and wise, and our own, today.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Motivational, Today, Next

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.479, Library of America

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• It was wise enough to know itself, and brave enough to be itself, and wild enough to change itself while somehow staying altogether true.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Brave, Enough, Staying

  Patrick Rothfuss (2014). “The Slow Regard of Silent Things”, p.10, Penguin

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• A wise word is not a substitute for a piece of herring.

  Sholom Aleichem

  Pieces, Substitutes, Herring

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• To be wise was to be above joy and sorrow, fear and pity, ambition and humiliation. It was to hate nothing and to love nothing, and above all to be utterly indifferent to the love and hate of others.

  Michael Ende

  Hate, Ambition, Joy

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• A surgeon is surrounded by people who are sick, discouraged, afraid, embittered, dying - but also courageous, loving, wise, compassionate and alive.

  Bernie Siegel

  People, Sick, Dying

  Bernie Siegel (2013). “Prescriptions For Living: Inspirational Lessons for a Joyful, Loving Life”, p.15, Random House

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• A wise man once said, 'The skill in attending a party is knowing when it's time to leave.'

  Michael Stipe

  Party, Men, Skills

  "Mike Mills on why R.E.M. are calling it quits" by David Fricke, www.cnn.com. September 26, 2011.

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• Opportunity seldom come along and knock you on the Head.

  Jon Jones

  Opportunity

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• There is an old saying, or should be, that it is a wise economist who recognizes the scope of his own generalizations.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Economics, Scope, Should

  John Kenneth Galbraith (2001). “The Essential Galbraith”, p.12, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• To keep on trying in spite of disappointment and failure is the only way to keep young and brave. Failures become victories if they make us wise-hearted.

  Helen Keller

  Disappointment, Brave, Victory

  Helen Keller (2000). “To Love this Life: Quotations”, p.107, American Foundation for the Blind

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• Rarely promise, but, if lawful, constantly perform.

  William Penn

  Wisdom, Keeping Promises, Kept Promises

  Benjamin Franklin, William Penn (2012). “Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims”, p.39, Courier Corporation

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

  Harold Pinter

  Thinking, Literature, Critical

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• No wise man can have a contempt for the prejudices of others; and he should even stand in a certain awe of his own, as if they were aged parents and monitors. They may in the end prove wiser than he.

  William Hazlitt

  Men, Parent, Prejudice

  William Hazlitt (1837). “Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].”, p.55

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• With children use force; with men reason; such is the natural order of things. The wise man requires no law.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Children, Men, Order

  Jean Jacques Rousseau (2013). “Emile or Concerning Education”, p.39, Simon and Schuster

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• A sad, wise valor is the brave complexion.

  George Herbert

  Brave, Valor, Complexion

  George Herbert (1842). “The Temple: And the Country Parson”, p.81

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• What you fear most of all is - fear. Very wise.

  J. K. Rowling

  Fear, Potters, Remus Lupin

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• None wise dares hopeless venture.

  Euripides

  Venture, Hopeless, Dare

  Helena, l.811 (translated by A S Way, 1959).

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• When the ignorant have become numerous or powerful enough, they have been referred to by a special name. This names is 'the Wise'.

  Idries Shah

  Powerful, Names, Ignorant

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• The wise men were all fools, what to do?

  Bruce Springsteen

  Men, Fool

  Song: The Last to Die, Album: Magic, 2007

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• An enormously vast field lies between "God exists" and "there is no God." The truly wise man traverses it with great difficulty. A Russian knows one or the other of these two extremes, but is not interested in the middle ground. He usually knows nothing, or very little.

  Anton Chekhov

  Lying, Men, Two

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• A man must know when to retreat from a woman, but a wise man knows that sometimes he must stand and face her.

  Robert Jordan

  Men, Faces, Retreat

  Robert Jordan (2010). “Lord of Chaos: Book Six of 'The Wheel of Time'”, p.265, Macmillan

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