Quotes on Wise

I think in YA there's sometimes a temptation to create heroines who are infinitely resilient and wise and confident because those are the behaviors we want to see teens embrace and maybe we want to see those things in ourselves.

I read a lot, I write a lot, and I have conversations with people I think are intelligent and wise.

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 foolish man conceives the idea of 'self.' The wise man sees there is no ground on which to build the idea of 'self;' thus, he has a right conception of the world and well concludes that all compounds amassed by sorrow will be dissolved again, but the truth will remain.

He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.

The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.

Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?

I find that it isn't wise to attempt to judge people on their public persona, and even on the music they make. Because I've met so many people whose music I cannot stand, and they're very nice. At the same time, I've met people whose music I've loved, and they're not the person you've invested all this emotion in.

Howard Zinn was magical as a teacher. Witty, irreverent, and wise, he loved what he was teaching and clearly wanted his students to love it, also.

A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men.

All who have taken it upon themselves to rule over others have incurred hatred and unpopularity for a time; but if one has a great aim to pursue, this burden of envy must be accepted, and it is wise to accept it.

I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should appear like a fool but be wise.

One should proceed with caution. We may simply not be wise enough to do some of the kinds of engineering things that people are talking about doing.

The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.

Do not rebuke mockers, or they will hate you; rebuke the wise, and they will love you.

If New York is a wise guy, Paris a coquette, Rome a gigolo and Berlin a wicked uncle, then London is an old lady who mutters and has the second sight. She is slightly deaf, and doesn't suffer fools gladly.

wisdom comes to us when it can no longer do any good.

Whoever can't see the whole in every part plays at blind man's bluff. A wise man tastes the entire Tigris in every sip.

Love is the strongest force the world possesses and yet it is the humblest imaginable.

The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.

For even the very wise cannot see all ends.