Wisdom quotes

“Logic is the beginning of wisdom, Valeris, not the end.”
Leonard Nimoy - Spock

“Wisdom is the province of the aged, but the heart of a child is pure.”
Peter Sellers - Hrundi V. Bakshi

“If you are wise, you will leave this place.”

Sir Michael Gambon - Baltus Van Tassel

“One grain of luck sometimes worth more than whole rice field of wisdom.”
Warner Oland - Charlie Chan

“It says in the book that Napoleon said a good general has got to know when to be just, severe, or mild.”
Humphrey Bogart - Joe Gurney

“A man once told me that the only thing you really own is a piece of ground the size of your shoes.”
Michael Wincott - Frankie

“Lord loves a workin' man. Don't trust whitey. See a doctor and get rid of it.”

Steve Martin - Navin

“- Everett Calloway: You're a mechanic?
- Simon Wilder: No, I'm a Zen Buddhist, but that's close enough.”
Patrick Dempsey - Everett Calloway
Joe Pesci - Simon Wilder

“- Billy Kwan: The one great advantage of being a dwarf is that you can be wiser than other people and no one envies you.
- Guy Hamilton: You're not a dwarf.
- Billy Kwan: That's what I like about you, Guy. You really don't care, do you? Or, maybe you just don't see.”
Linda Hunt - Billy Kwan
Mel Gibson - Guy Hamilton

“Rabbit run very fast, but sometimes turtle win race.”
Warner Oland - Charlie Chan

“The weight of a crown has made my brother wise beyond my expertise.”
Rufus Sewell - Agamemnon

“Perverting common wisdom, nephew, is a mark of all great conspiracies.”
Ian McNeice - Baron Vladimir Harkonnen

“You take the fruit of forty years - hard lessons, mistakes - and you call it wisdom.”
Dustin Hoffman - Stanley Motss

“A wiser horse might have turned and run, but I wanted to know what strange creatures were here.”

Matt Damon - Spirit

“- Dil: Ask to meet me again, Jimmy.
- Fergus: Do you think that's wise?
- Dil: Nothing's wise.”
Jaye Davidson - Dil
Stephen Rea - Fergus

“More isn't always better Linus, sometimes it's just more.”

Julia Ormond - Sabrina Fairchild

“- Tamara: I'm not wearing any underwear.
- Dexter King: Is that, uh... is that... wise?
- Tamara: Screw wisdom! Who wants to be wise?
- Dexter King: The Dalai Lama, to name but one.”
Joanna Kanska - Tamara
Jeff Goldblum - Dexter King

“- Eddie: Do you plan on going up against a destroyer with only one fish in the tube and busted motor?
- Lieutenant Andrew Tyler: Yes, I am, Eddie.
- Lt. Hirsch: How wise is that, Lieutenant?
- Lieutenant Andrew Tyler: Not very.”
Terrence 'T.C.' Carson - Steward Eddie Carson
Matthew McConaughey - Lt. Andrew Tyler
Jake Weber - Lt. Hirsch

- Marty Pascal: Are you being wise?
- "Jackie-O" Pascal: One day I woke up wise.
- Marty Pascal: One day I woke up stupid.
- "Jackie-O" Pascal: What'd you do?
- Marty Pascal: I went back to bed.
- "Jackie-O" Pascal: That was wise.
Josh Hamilton - Marty Pascal
Parker Posey - "Jackie-O" Pascal

“- Canaan: You're a wise man.
- Ernie Fowler: Ain't so... I'm a bartender.”
Armand Assante - Canaan
Clayton Landey - Ernie Fowler

“Like the wise man said: first we try, then we trust.”
Catherine Zeta-Jones - Gin

- Mr. Furious: Am I the only one who finds these sayings just a little bit formulaic? "If you want to push something down, you have to pull it up. If you want to go left, you have to go right". It's...
- The Sphinx: Your temper is very quick, my friend. But until you learn to master your rage...
- Mr. Furious: ... your rage will become your... (continue)(continue reading)
Ben Stiller - Furious
Wes Studi - Sphinx

“Damn it, listen to me. I'm older and wiser.”
Fred Ward - Earl Bassett

A wise man once said: "There are no perfect men in the world; only perfect intentions".
Morgan Freeman - Azeem

“Looking at him that night, he seemed so wise... and ancient, like the first dog who ever walked the earth. I just hope that one day, I can be like him.”

Michael J. Fox - Chance