Wise Quotes

When I can look life in the eyes, grown calm and very coldly wise, life will have given me the truth, and taken in exchange - my youth.

A smart man makes a mistake, learns from it, and never makes that mistake again. But a wise man finds a smart man and learns from him how to avoid the mistake altogether.

It's been very nice. I haven't gotten out too much because we've been working a lot but other wise the people have been very nice and I've had a good time.

Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough.

The fact is that not only do people get more wise and more conservative as they get older, they get more kind and more generous, too.

Every wise, just, and mild government, by rendering the condition of its subjects easy and secure, will always abound most in people, as well as in commodities and riches.

It takes a wise man to handle a lie, a fool had better remain honest.

Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The world is neither wise nor just, but it makes up for all its folly and injustice by being damnably sentimental.

Make men wise, and by that very operation you make them free. Civil liberty follows as a consequence of this; no usurped power can stand against the artillery of opinion.

O wise man! Give your wealth only to the worthy and never to others. The water of the sea received by the clouds is always sweet.

Do not reveal what you have thought upon doing, but by wise council keep it secret being determined to carry it into execution.

Poetry is innocent, not wise. It does not learn from experience, because each poetic experience is unique.

The greatest misfortune of the wise man and the greatest unhappiness of the fool are based upon convention.

He that is rich is wise.

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

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.