You're a wise person if you can easily direct your attention to what ever needs it.
Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.
The way to get on in the world is to be neither more nor less wise, neither better nor worse than your neighbours.
A wise man looks upon men as he does on horses; all their comparisons of title, wealth, and place, he consider but as harness.
They're mutually incompatible I feel; being a wise thief and a wise father.
'Tis better to be fortunate than wise.
Wise to resolve, and patient to perform.
Wise anger is like fire from a flint: there is great ado to get it out; and when it does come, it is out again immediately.
Look wise, say nothing, and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought.
I resolved to stop accumulating and begin the infinitely more serious and difficult task of wise distribution.
The only question which any wise man can ask himself, and which any honest man will ask himself, is whether a doctrine is true or false.
Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.
The monsters of our childhood do not fade away, neither are they ever wholly monstrous. But neither, in my experience, do we ever reach a plane of detachment regarding our parents, however wise and old we may become. To pretend otherwise is to cheat.
If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise.
The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself, he becomes wise.
I believe that President Clinton considered the legal merits of the arguments for the pardon as he understood them, and he rendered his judgment, wise or unwise, on the merits.
You can be very wild and still be very wise.
Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.
So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.
To withdraw is not to run away, and to stay is no wise action, when there's more reason to fear than to hope.
While immensely beneficial to Seoul, is this U.S. guarantee to fight Korean War II, 64 years after the first, wise? Russia, China and Japan retain the freedom to decide whether and how to react, should war break out. Why do we not?
I didn't lead a very wise life, myself, but it was a full one and a grown-up one. You come of age very quickly through shipwreck and disaster.
What a circus act we women perform every day of our lives. Look at us. We run a tightrope daily, balancing a pile of books on the head. Baby-carriage, parasol, kitchen chair, still under control. Steady now! This is not the life of simplicity but the life of multiplicity that the wise men warn us of.
A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.
The big banks advise cities about whether privatization is a wise choice. They also control the ability of states and cities to access the market for their financing needs.
How do you know antiquity was foolish? How do you know the present is wise? Who made it foolish? Who made it wise?
The mobilisation which Bush has been able to perform since 11 September 2001 has to be fought - at least by Americans - in the name of a wise, honourable and democratic patriotism.
Wise is he who enjoys the show offered by the world.
Care more than others think wise.
The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love.
I never think of myself as wise. I think of myself as possessing a critical intelligence which I intend to allow to operate.
An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight... the truly wise person is colorblind.
There is one safeguard known generally to the wise, which is an advantage and security to all, but especially to democracies as against despots - suspicion.
Phoebe Wolkind Ephron cracked wise like Dorothy Parker and looked like Katharine Hepburn.
The skilful employer of men will employ the wise man, the brave man, the covetous man, and the stupid man.
