Quotes of: Wise-people Keyword

It is never wise to try to appear to be more clever than you are. It is sometimes wise to appear slightly less so.

William Whitelaw

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

Georg C. Lichtenberg

Call me not wise unless you call all men wise. A young fruit am I, still clinging to the branch and it was only yesterday that I was a blossom. And call none among you foolish for we are neither wise nor foolish. We are green leaves upon the tree of ...

The Garden of The Prophet

the only way in which a human being can make some approach to knowing the whole of a subject, is by hearing what can be said about it by persons of every variety of opinion, and studying all modes in which it can be looked at by every character of mi...

On Liberty

They will be hushed by a good deed who laugh at a wise speech.

French

Though the snake be small, it is still wise to hit it with a big stick.

Indian

The foolish sayings of a rich man pass for wise ones.

Spanish

What a fool does in the end, the wise do in the beginning.

Spanish

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

The Essays

A wise man does not step betwixt the beast and his meat

Cloud Atlas

Those who are wise won't be busy, and those who are too busy can't be wise.

The Importance Of Living

Wise Child: Why don't you beat me then? Juniper: I can't be bothered.

Wise Child

Asleep she was a painting of a fire. Awake she was the fire itself

The Wise Man's Fear

Looters become looted, while time and tide make us mercenaries all.

The Wise Man's Fear

The point isn't to win the game. The point is to play a beautiful game. (paraphrased)

The Wise Man's Fear

Lies are simpler, and most of the time they make better sense.

The Wise Man's Fear

Music explains itself...It is the road and it is the map that shows the road. It is both together.

The Wise Man's Fear

Sharing silence between us. Sometimes is all you can share.

The Wise Man's Fear

Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.

Quintilian

The wise man in the storm prays God not for safety from danger but for deliverance from fear.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A wise man does not chatter with one whose mind is sick.

Sophocles