Wise Quotes

The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

My father also happened to be an intellectual, as learned, literate, informed, and curious as anyone I have known. Unobtrusively and casually, he was my wise and gentle teacher.

It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look further than you can see.

A wise man's question contains half the answer.

Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.

The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.

Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart.

Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.

You must be wise, but not too wise.

To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.

For the wise man looks into space and he knows there is no limited dimensions.

During a negotiation, it would be wise not to take anything personally. If you leave personalities out of it, you will be able to see opportunities more objectively.

Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance.

A fool is wise in his eyes.

A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.

I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.

It is a wise man who knows where courage ends and stupidity begins.

It is not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.

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

Oh leave the Wise our measures to collate. One thing at least is certain, light has weight. One thing is certain and the rest debate. Light rays, when near the Sun, do not go straight.

Chinese are wise in comprehending without many words what is inevitable and inescapable and therefore only to be borne.

My upbringing is why I am the person I am today. I have very wise parents.

To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself.

It's the height of folly to want to be the only wise one.

The mobilisation which Bush has been able to perform since 11 September 2001 has to be fought - at least by Americans - in the name of a wise, honourable and democratic patriotism.

At Athens, wise men propose, and fools dispose.

The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions.

Every human being has, like Socrates, an attendant spirit; and wise are they who obey its signals. If it does not always tell us what to do, it always cautions us what not to do.

Though lust do masque in ne'er so strange disguise she's oft found witty, but is never wise.

I do believe that every person has an equal opportunity to be a good and wise judge regardless of their background or life experiences.