wise quotes

“My wish for the new millennium is for all children... to grow up wiser, and stronger and more prosperous for the future than ever before. ”

— Hillary Clinton

“With any part you play, there is a certain amount of yourself in it. There has to be, otherwise it's just not acting. It's lying. ”

— Johnny Depp

“It's not wise to violate rules until you know how to observe them. ”

— Thomas Stearns Eliot

“I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

“It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

“Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.”

— Helen Keller

“No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.”

— Helen Keller

“Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise.”

— Maya Angelou

“People have this obsession. They want you to be like you were in 1969. They want you to, because otherwise their youth goes with you. It's very selfish, but it's understandable.”

— Mick Jagger

“The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.”

— William James

“Even the people I surround myself with... are wiser, a little bit older than me, where before, all my boyfriends were younger.”

— Kim Kardashian

“I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours.”

— John Fitzgerald Kennedy

“Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say 'infinitely' when you mean 'very'; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.”

— Clive Staples Lewis

“We need earmark reform, and when I'm President, I will go line by line to make sure that we are not spending money unwisely.”

— Barack Obama

“No man is great enough or wise enough for any of us to surrender our destiny to. The only way in which anyone can lead us is to restore to us the belief in our own guidance.”

— Henry Miller

“Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every loss which can be sustained from the more systematic policy of its wiser neighbors.”

— James Madison

“The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.”

— Niccolo Machiavelli

“The one who adapts his policy to the times prospers, and likewise that the one whose policy clashes with the demands of the times does not.”

— Niccolo Machiavelli

“A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests.”

— Niccolo Machiavelli

“It's a good thing I was born a girl, otherwise I'd be a drag queen.”

— Dolly Parton

“Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.”

— Blaise Pascal

“The commander in the field is always right and the rear echelon is wrong, unless proved otherwise.”

— Colin Powell

“Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

“My idea is always to reach my generation. The wise writer writes for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmasters of ever afterward.”

— Francis Scott Fitzgerald

“If I read a book that impresses me, I have to take myself firmly by the hand, before I mix with other people; otherwise they would think my mind rather queer.”

— Anne Frank

“I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.”

— Marlene Dietrich

“An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.”

— Charles Darwin

“The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.”

— Bertrand Russell

“A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.”

— William Blake

“The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.”

— William Blake