Wise Quotes - Page 16

• It's a wise man who understands that every day is a new beginning, because boy, how many mistakes do you make in a day? I don't know about you, but I make plenty. You can't turn the clock back, so you have to look ahead.

  Mel Gibson

  Mistake, New Beginnings, Boys

  "Mel Gibson Tells Some Brutal Truths About The Amazing 'Apocalypto'". Interview with Kurt Loder, www.mtv.com. December 14, 2006.

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

  J. K. Rowling

  Fear, Potters, Remus Lupin

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• As for omens, there is no such thing as an omen. Destiny does not send us heralds. She is too wise or too cruel for that.

  Oscar Wilde

  Destiny, Doe, Superstitions

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.154, GENERAL PRESS

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• Wise men say nothing in dangerous times

  Aesop

  Life, Men, Advice

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

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• Gentlemen, let us suppose that man is not stupid. (Indeed one cannot refuse to suppose that, if only from the one consideration, that, if man is stupid, then who is wise?) But if he is not stupid, he is monstrously ungrateful! Phenomenally ungrateful. In fact, I believe that the best definition of man is the ungrateful biped.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Stupid, Believe, Men

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2018). “White Nights and Other Stories”, p.93, Youcanprint

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• A wise man from my home once told me that these mountains have seen far too much suffering and killing, and that each rock and every boulder you see represents a mujahadeen who died fighting either the Russians or the Taliban. Then the man went on to say that now that the fighting is finished, it is time to build a new era of peace-and the first step in that process is to take up the stones and start turning them into schools.

  Greg Mortenson

  School, Home, Fighting

  Greg Mortenson (2009). “Stones into Schools: Promoting Peace with Education in Afghanistan and Pakistan”, p.231, Penguin

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• At first glance, the key and the lock it fits may seem very different," Sazed said. "Different in shape, different in function, different in design. The man who looks at them without knowledge of their true nature might think them opposites, for one is meant to open, and the other to keep closed. Yet, upon closer examination he might see that without one, the other becomes useless. The wise man then sees that both lock and key were created for the same purpose.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Men, Thinking, Opposites

  Brandon Sanderson (2011). “Mistborn Trilogy”, p.1196, Macmillan

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• From that time forth he believed that the wise man is one who never sets himself apart from other living things, whether they have speech or not, and in later years he strove long to learn what can be learned, in silence, from the eyes of animals, the flight of birds, the great slow gestures of trees.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Eye, Animal, Men

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2012). “A Wizard of Earthsea”, p.98, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Question (from a reader) : Will the Wise Goddess Athena overthrow Zeus and become the ruler of Olympus? Athena's answer : What an interesting idea . . . No, just kidding, Dad. Put away the lightning bolt.

  Rick Riordan

  Dad, Ideas, Interesting

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• If we would know true love and understanding one for another, we must realize that communication is more than a sharing of words. It is the wise sharing of emotions, feelings, and concerns. It is the sharing of oneself totally.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Communication, Emotions Feelings, Understanding

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• Well isn’t that one thing you’re all the more wise for? Age has taught you something. It seems to me that you know the big secret. That nobody knows what’s going on

  Cecelia Ahern

  Secret, Age, Taught

  Cecelia Ahern (2005). “Rosie Dunne”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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• This reminds me, Godmother, to ask you a serious question. You are as wise as wise can be (having been brought up by the fairies), and you can tell me this: Is it better to have had a good thing and lost it, or never to have had it?

  Charles Dickens

  Words Of Wisdom, Godmother, Serious

  Charles Dickens (2016). “Our Mutual Friend”, p.427, Xist Publishing

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• The trouble was, if you were a chief you had to think, you had to be wise.

  William Golding

  Thinking, Trouble, Chiefs

  William Golding (2016). “Lord of the Flies”, p.54, Hamilton Books

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• Mindfulness, also called wise attention, helps us see what we’re adding to our experiences, not only during meditation sessions but also elsewhere.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Meditation, Mindfulness, Attention

  Sharon Salzberg (2010). “Real Happiness - Enhanced Ebook Edition: The Power of Meditation: A 28-Day Program”, p.78, Workman Publishing

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• "Do you like him much?" "I told you I liked him a little. Where is the use of caring for him so very much: he is full of faults." "Is he?" "All boys are." "More than girls?" "Very likely."

  Charlotte Bronte

  Girl, Caring, Boys

  "Villette".

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• Nine tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Nine

  Theodore Roosevelt (2005). “Fear God and Take Your Own Part”, p.54, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Owls are wise. They are careful and patient. Wisdom precludes boldness. That is why owls make poor heroes.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Hero, Owl, Patient

  Patrick Rothfuss (2010). “The Name of the Wind: The Kingkiller Chonicle:”, p.514, Hachette UK

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• Don't duck the most difficult problems. That just ensures that the hardest part will be left when you are most tired. Get the big one done - it's downhill from then on.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Tired, Ducks, Insightful

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• None can be an impartial or wise observer of human life but from the vantage ground of what we should call voluntary poverty.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Poverty, Should, Human Life

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Thoreau on Nature: Sage Words on Finding Harmony with the Natural World”, p.26, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Wisdom eludes me yet, but foolishness I captured long ago and to this day it is my constant companion, though many people consider me wise.

  Kevin Hearne

  Long Ago, People, Elude

  Kevin Hearne (2014). “The Iron Druid Chronicles 6-Book Bundle: Hounded, Hexed, Hammered, Tricked, Trapped, Hunted”, p.776, Del Rey

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• The wise man who has become accustomed to necessities knows better how to share with others than how to take from them, so great a treasure of self-sufficiency has he found.

  Epicurus

  Men, Self, Treasure

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• Or yet in wise old Ravenclaw, if you've a ready mind, Where those of wit and learning, Will always find their kind.

  J. K. Rowling

  Mind, Gryffindor, Kind

  J. K. Rowling, “Sorting Hat's Song (Book 1)”

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