Wise Quotes

Wise thinkers prevail everywhere.

The skilful employer of men will employ the wise man, the brave man, the covetous man, and the stupid man.

A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win.

I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born.

The wise are above books.

Don't follow any advice, no matter how good, until you feel as deeply in your spirit as you think in your mind that the counsel is wise.

Great deeds give choice of many tales. Choose a slight tale, enrich it large, and then let wise men listen.

Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise.

He who lives without folly isn't so wise as he thinks.

'Tis folly to be wise.

Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.

That which is not, shall never be; that which is, shall never cease to be. To the wise, these truths are self-evident.

Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others.

A wise man does not chatter with one whose mind is sick.

It's just a logical guess that they are very very wise to put someone from the old series in it, and if you had to choose, it would be a very difficult decision.

Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.

May none but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof.

People don't understand that all presidents, the minute they become president, get a knock at the door. And there's a man there saying, 'Let's talk about your funeral.' At the time I thought, God, that's a terrible thing. Later on, I thought it was pretty wise.

Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.

Time ripens all things; no man is born wise.

The intellect of the wise is like glass; it admits the light of heaven and reflects it.

Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life.

Consider the birds. Be wise as serpents.

Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.

The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.

Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.

If slavery, limited as it yet is, now threatens to subvert the Constitution, how can we as wise and prudent statesmen, enlarge its boundaries and increase its influence, and thus increase already impending dangers?

How do you know antiquity was foolish? How do you know the present is wise? Who made it foolish? Who made it wise?

I have not been that wise. Health I have taken for granted. Love I have demanded, perhaps too much and too often. As for money, I have only realized its true worth when I didn't have it.

Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.