Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.
I had grown up in a humanist atmosphere, and war to me was never anything but horror, mutilation and senseless destruction, and I knew that many great and wise people felt the same way about it.
We generally pretend to be something to survive in a society. So the characters I play, I want them to be wholesome characters. They are not necessarily the most wise people, but they do have a heart and soul.
A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart.
The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored.
You're a wise person if you can easily direct your attention to what ever needs it.
A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times.
A wise person does not undertake any business with the risk of losing the capital money in search of making a profit.
I will say this: I know no wise person who doesn't read a lot. I suspect that you can read on the computer now and get a lot of benefit out of it, but I doubt that it'll work as well as reading print worked for me.
I had a very wise person tell me that he thinks marriage, when you're younger, you keep thinking you can fix things. That's what people do. And you can't really fix anything. It shouldn't be a massive difficult thing every day. Life's difficult enough.
Sometimes you can tell a wise person not only by what he says but also by what he doesn't say. Remember, it is much better to say little than to say too much and regret it later.
If I meet a wise person, I think, 'Yes, tell me more about parenting, about marriage, about how to stay in love. Tell me more about how to be a decent person living in a world that's filled with chaos.'
The mark of a wise person isn't never making mistakes - everyone makes plenty of them. Rather, it's the ability to quickly admit - and fix - them!
To withdraw is not to run away, and to stay is no wise action, when there's more reason to fear than to hope.
The fool wonders, the wise man asks.
I became a Republican when a very wise young lady asked me how I could remain a Democrat when I didn't agree with what they stood for and did agree with what the Republicans supported.
The wise use of your freedom to make your own decisions is crucial to your spiritual growth, now and for eternity.