Wise Quotes

I didn't lead a very wise life, myself, but it was a full one and a grown-up one. You come of age very quickly through shipwreck and disaster.

To withdraw is not to run away, and to stay is no wise action, when there's more reason to fear than to hope.

There has never been any country at every moment so virtuous and so wise that it has not sometimes needed to be saved from itself.

No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.

Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible.

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations.

Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way.

It is best for the wise man not to seem wise.

It can't possibly last for years and browsing has its limits. Only a certain amount is healthy or wise.

Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away.

For humble individuals like myself, there is one poor comfort, which is this, viz. that gout, unlike any other disease, kills more rich men than poor, more wise men than simple.

Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.

We must first pray, that God would make us wise; before we can wish, he would make us happy.

The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool.

Your dear baby has died innocent and blameless, and has been called away by an all wise and merciful Creator, most probably from a life to misery and misfortune, and most certainly to one of happiness and bliss.

The one knowing what is profitable, and not the man knowing many things, is wise.

Man is wise and constantly in quest of more wisdom; but the ultimate wisdom, which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls forth faith rather than reason.

Who then is free? The wise man who can command himself.

Conservation means the wise use of the earth and its resources for the lasting good of men.

It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.

The only competition worthy of a wise man is with himself.

You ask: what is the meaning or purpose of life? I can only answer with another question: do you think we are wise enough to read God's mind?

The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.

It is often wise to reveal that which cannot be concealed for long.

Teach a child what is wise, that is morality. Teach him what is wise and beautiful, that is religion!

The wise man is he who knows the relative value of things.

Some wisdom you must learn from one who's wise.

Women are not so well united as to form an Insurrection. They are for the most part wise enough to love their Chains, and to discern how becomingly they fit.

The American people may not be the best-educated, but they're very wise at heart.

For if the mystery concealed of old is made manifest to the Apostles through the prophetic writings, and if the prophets, being wise men, understood what proceeded from their own mouths, then the prophets knew what was made manifest to the Apostles.