Wise quotes

“The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.” Arthur Schopenhauer

“Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first.” Arthur Schopenhauer

“Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.” Jean-Paul Sartre

“In our friendships we have to be wise that we choose godly people to be our friends. Somebody might say, well does that mean that you should never have a lost person as your friend? No, I wouldn't say that. But you can't have the same intimacy with a lost person that you can with a godly person in whom the Holy Spirit is living.” Charles Stanley

“Understand that it is often unwise to forgive face to face. This tends to make the other person feel 'put down' and make you look holier-than-thou.” Charles Stanley

“Wise to resolve, and patient to perform.” Homer

“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.” Albert Schweitzer

“Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.” Jonathan Swift

“A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.” Jonathan Swift

“A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying... that he is wiser today than yesterday.” Jonathan Swift

“No wise man ever wished to be younger.” Jonathan Swift

“A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart.” Jonathan Swift

“The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.” Jonathan Swift

“Sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.” Donald Trump

“Where there is no struggle, there is no strength.” Oprah Winfrey

“I feel that luck is preparation meeting opportunity.” Oprah Winfrey

“You send a boy to school in order to make friends - the right sort.” Virginia Woolf

“The shallow consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise man sees in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws.” Walt Whitman

“The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.” Alan Watts

“I don't make music for eyes. I make music for ears.” Adele

“There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.” Ansel Adams

“Do every act of your life as if it were your last.” Marcus Aurelius

“To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution.” Marcus Aurelius

“Use a make-up table with everything close at hand and don't rush; otherwise you'll look like a patchwork quilt.” Lucille Ball

“Ability is of little account without opportunity.” Lucille Ball

“You can never plan the future by the past.” Edmund Burke

“To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.” Edmund Burke

“Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.” Yogi Berra

“If the world was perfect, it wouldn't be.” Yogi Berra

“That's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over, lest you should think he never could recapture the first fine careless rapture!” Robert Browning