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Wise Quotes

True consistency, that of the prudent and the wise, is to act in conformity with circumstances and not to act always the same way under a change of circumstances.

John C. Calhoun

Change Wise Consistency Circumstances

The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forbearing.

Man Wise Opinion Wise Man Two Those

The older I get and the more iconic the piece, I believe that it's wise to watch a bit and become inspired and take moments that feel so connected to the story and also connected to me that I feel like I can make a part of my own performance.

Annaleigh Ashford

Wise Me Performance Believe Story

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

Wise You Rules Know Observe How

The wise man regulates his conduct by the theories both of religion and science. But he regards these theories not as statements of ultimate fact but as art-forms.

John B. S. Haldane

Science Man Religion Wise Wise Man

Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.

Elizabeth Gaskell

Wisdom Wise People Better Sometimes

When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.

Winston Churchill

War Wise Winning You Right Almost

If I had to name my favorite media personality, it would be a tie between Jon Stewart and Trey Parker/Matt Stone. Honest, wise, funny, and right. Sam Sifton was right up there when he was writing food criticism for the 'New York Times.'

Funny Food Personality New York Wise

Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

Love Fool Wise Way Minds Different

A wise unselfishness is not a surrender of yourself to the wishes of anyone, but only to the best discoverable course of action.

Best Yourself Wise Action Surrender

The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.

William Wordsworth

Age Wise Mind Away Behind Than

But Paul, in his preaching of the Gospel, is a debtor to deliver the word not to Barbarians only, but also to Greeks, and not only to the unwise, who would easily agree with him, but also to the wise.

Wise Him Agree Greeks Preaching

Extreme nationalism and Bolshevism have broken up the old world, a new world is in the making. It is literally true that old things are passing away; all things may become new, granted we have wise, unselfish, and determined guides.

Broken Wise World Nationalism New

The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world.

Charles Caleb Colton

Mistakes Fool Man Wise World Known

Make men wise, and by that very operation you make them free. Civil liberty follows as a consequence of this; no usurped power can stand against the artillery of opinion.

Power Men Wise Opinion Free Stand

Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.

Life Today Tomorrow Wise Fate Never

When complaints are freely heard, deeply considered and speedily reformed, then is the utmost bound of civil liberty attained that wise men look for.

Men Wise Look Wise Men Liberty Then

The foolish man conceives the idea of 'self.' The wise man sees there is no ground on which to build the idea of 'self;' thus, he has a right conception of the world and well concludes that all compounds amassed by sorrow will be dissolved again, but the truth will remain.

Truth Man Wise World Self Wise Man

The way to get on in the world is to be neither more nor less wise, neither better nor worse than your neighbours.

William Hazlitt

Wise World Better Way More Get

Script wise, the story of 'Eega' is universal. It's a simple story which everyone can understand.

Simple Wise Story Understand Script

I'm considered wise, and sometimes I see myself as knowing. Most of the time, I see myself as wanting to know. And I see myself as a very interested person. I've never been bored in my life.

Life Time Myself Wise My Life Know

A surgeon is surrounded by people who are sick, discouraged, afraid, embittered, dying - but also courageous, loving, wise, compassionate and alive.

Wise People Sick Loving Alive Dying

We ought to fly away from earth to heaven as quickly as we can; and to fly away is to become like God, as far as this is possible; and to become like him is to become holy, just, and wise.

God Wise Fly Heaven Earth Possible

You just try to absorb as much as you can from someone who has won as many races and championships as he has. Career wise, he's been the greatest thing that's happened to me.

Wise Me Someone You Career Try

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