Famous Quotes: Wise

The government's view is that the best time to announce bad news, news that it doesn't want the public to dwell on is late on a Friday, when it will wind up in the Saturday papers, which if you were readers, then the week day editions. A holiday weekend is even better.
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Ours is an excessively conscious age. We know so much, we feel so little.
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No man was ever wise by chance.
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I've never intended to be controversial, but it's very easy to be controversial in pop music because nobody ever is.
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We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
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The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored.
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A lawyer I once knew told me of a strange case, a suffragette who had never married. After her death, he opened her trunk and discovered 50 wedding gowns.
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Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world; whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers.
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Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action.
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The conqueror is regarded with awe; the wise man commands our respect; but it is only the benevolent man that wins our affection.
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Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms.
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Reading isn't good for a ballplayer. Not good for his eyes. If my eyes went bad even a little bit I couldn't hit home runs. So I gave up reading.
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When we become a really mature, grown-up, wise society, we will put teachers at the center of the community, where they belong. We don't honor them enough, we don't pay them enough.
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Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?
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The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
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True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance.
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Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.
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It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it may happen that those who need sympathy the most often attract it the least.
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Whatever the immediate gains and losses, the dangers to our safety arising from political suppression are always greater than the dangers to the safety resulting from political freedom. Suppression is always foolish. Freedom is always wise.
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Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.
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