Wise Quotes

The seven wise men of Greece, so famous for their wisdom all the world over, acquired all that fame, each of them, by a single sentence consisting of two or three words.

A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion.

A little too wise, they say, do ne'er live long.

It is impossible to love and to be wise.

Be wisely worldly, but not worldly wise.

I resolved to stop accumulating and begin the infinitely more serious and difficult task of wise distribution.

There is no man, however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived in a way the consciousness of which is so unpleasant to him in later life that he would gladly, if he could, expunge it from his memory.

Where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise.

The man who has sufficient power over himself to wait until his nature has recovered its even balance is the truly wise man, but such beings are seldom met with.

It takes a wise man to recognize a wise man.

Our lady the Common Law is a very wise old lady though she still has something to learn in telling what she knows.

True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance.

No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.

Wise to resolve, and patient to perform.

Dogs are wise. They crawl away into a quiet corner and lick their wounds and do not rejoin the world until they are whole once more.

The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself, he becomes wise.

Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent.

I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in either of them: Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden.

Care more than others think wise.

A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.

He that is rich is wise.

I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn't lived that life.

A man only becomes wise when he begins to calculate the approximate depth of his ignorance.

I never think of myself as wise. I think of myself as possessing a critical intelligence which I intend to allow to operate.

A wise doctor does not mutter incantations over a sore that needs the knife.

Now the reason the enlightened prince and the wise general conquer the enemy whenever they move and their achievements surpass those of ordinary men is foreknowledge.

The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve.

Wise is he who enjoys the show offered by the world.

Be happy. It's one way of being wise.

Why should I ask the wise men: Whence is my beginning? I am busy with the thought: Where will be my end?