The Wise Quotes
Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously.
We get wise by asking questions, and even if these are not answered we get wise, for a well-packed question carries its answer on its back as a snail carries its shell.
One great difference between a wise man and a fool is, the former only wishes for what he may possibly obtain; the latter desires impossibilities.
There is nothing that isn't true if you believe it; and nothing is true, believe it or not.
The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love.
Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard
The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world.
To the believers it is true. To the wise it is false. To the leaders it is useful.
I never was attached to that great sect, Whose doctrine is that each one should select Out of the crowd a mistress or a friend, And all the rest, though fair and wise, commend, To cold oblivion.
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.
Events in the past may be roughly divided into those which probably never happened and those which do not matter.
To fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise without really being wise, for it is to think that we know what we do not know.
A wise man once told me that only by leaving someone good can you meet someone better.
Sometimes, I think the things we see are shadows of the things to be; that what we plan we build
Talent is so loaded a word, so full to the brim with meanings, that an artist might be wise to forget about it altogether and just keep on working.
The man who can keep a secret may be wise, but he is not half as wise as the man with no secrets to keep.
I was raised to believe that soldiers were strong and wise and brave and faithful; they didn't lie, cheat, steal or abandon their comrades.
In deep waters, you encounter only the wise and the brave; in shallow waters, the ignorant and the coward!
Pay heed to the tales of old wives. It may well be that they alone keep in memory what it was once needful for the wise to know.
I would rather a thousand times be five minutes at the feet of Christ than listen a lifetime to all the wise men in the world.
We do not believe any group of men adequate enough or wise enough to operate without scrutiny or without criticism.
No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.
What enables the wise sovereign and the good general to strike and conquer, and achieve things beyond the reach of ordinary men, is foreknowledge.
A wise man shall overrule his stars, and have a greater influence upon his own content than all the constellations and planets of the firmament.
No man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
