Wise
Definition: Having or showing experience, knowledge, and good judgment. The manner or extent of something.
Number of Quotes: 16
Giving up your core business in search of a phantom audience is not wise.
Roger Ailes
Any fool can paint a picture, but it takes a wise man to be able to sell it.
Samuel Butler (Author)
Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.
Charles Colton
Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.
E. E. Cummings
Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
Samuel Johnson
Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak, and to speak well, are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
Ben Jonson
At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
W. Somerset Maugham
Experience! Wise men do not need it.
Experience! Idiots do not heed it.
Ogden Nash
Coffee, (which makes the politician wise, and see thro' all things with his half-shut eyes).
Alexander Pope
No man is brave that has never walked a hundred miles. If you want to know the truth of who you are, walk
until not a person knows your name. Travel is the great leveler, the great teacher, bitter as medicine, crueler than
mirror-glass. A long stretch of road will teach you more about yourself than a hundred years of quiet introspection.
The Wise Man's Fear
Patrick Rothfuss
It is a wise father that knows his own child.
The Merchant of Venice
William Shakespeare
Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.
George Bernard Shaw
The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.
Thomas Szasz
Wise men don't need to prove their point; men who need to prove their point aren't wise.
Lao Tzu
In examinations the foolish ask questions that the wise cannot answer.
Oscar Wilde
Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.
Edward Young
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