The Wise Quotes

The most valuable lesson man has learned from his dog is to kick a few blades of grass over it and move on.

There are errors which no wise man will treat with rudeness while there is a probability that they may be the refraction of some great truth still below the horizon.

A wise man can and should stand above his times, not so the poet, but he should be their apex.

The wise man... if he would live at peace with others, he will bear and forbear.

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From ignorance our comfort flows, the only wretched are the wise

You cannot be anything if you want to be everything. But if you are content to be something, you may by analogy be many things.

Economics is not brain surgery.

All the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites or subparasites.

I think that we'd be very wise not to predict anything with Donald Trump.

A word to the wise is sufficient

The love of fame is a passion natural and universal, which no man, however high or mean, however wise or ignorant, was yet able to despise.

Fears of the brave and follies of the wise.

Look wise, say nothing, and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought.

None are too wise to be mistaken, but few are so wisely just as to acknowledge and correct their mistakes, and especially the mistakes of prejudice.

God has forgiven you; you'd be wise to do the same

Wise married women don't trouble themselves about infidelity in their husbands.

I became a Republican when a very wise young lady asked me how I could remain a Democrat when I didn't agree with what they stood for and did agree with what the Republicans supported.

A still tongue keeps a wise head.

But I just know from experience that accent wise, even if you're an accent genius, crossing the Atlantic is the hardest thing in the world either way.

The wise are balanced, and the foolish are extreme.

A wise man once said that next to losing its mother, there is nothing more healthy for a child than to lose its father.

Walk lightly through life.

The wisest prophets make sure of the event first.

Fate is the friend of the good, the guide of the wise, the tyrant of the foolish, the enemy of the bad.

A wise God shrouds the future in obscure darkness. [Lat., Prudens futuri temporis exitum Caliginosa nocte premit deus.]

Wise were the kings who never chose a friend till with full cups they had unmasked his soul, and seen the bottom of his deepest thoughts.

A wise God shrouds the future in obscure darkness.

The individual is foolish; the multitude, for the moment is foolish, when they act without deliberation; but the species is wise, and, when time is given to it, as a species it always acts right.

The wise person finds enemies more useful than the fool does friends .

Wise men will apply their remedies to vices, not to names; to the causes of evil which are permanent, not the occasional organs by which they act, and the transitory modes in which they appear.

Well-makers lead the water (wherever they like) ; fletchers bend the arrow ; carpenters bend a log of wood ; wise people fashion themselves.

There is not one wise man in twenty that will praise himself.

For one who has not lived even a single lifetime, you are a wise man, Van Helsing.

When a wise man gives thee better counsel, give me mine again.

There are rules to luck, not everything is chance for the wise; luck can be helped by skill.

To be wise is to be eternally curious.

To know what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty... this knowledge, this feeling is at the center of true religiousness.

The wine urges me on, the bewitching wine, which sets even a wise man to singing and to laughing gently and rouses him up to dance and brings forth words which were better unspoken.

Happy the days that have been consecrated to the remembrance of God, and blessed the hours which have been spent in praise of Him Who is the All-Wise.

Oppression makes wise men mad; but the distemper is still the madness of the wise, which is better than the sobriety of fools.

Although God is all powerful, He is unable to give more; though supremely wise, He knows not how to give more; though vastly rich, He has not more to give.

The Seeker, The Search, The Sacred by Guy Finley is a very wise book, filled with inspiration to help you dramatically improve your life. I highly recommend it.

Yoda is interesting because, in addition to being wise, he is two feet tall, and a Yoda.

Oh, be wise, Thou! Instructed that true knowledge leads to love.

Give unto me, made lowly wise, The spirit of self-sacrifice; The confidence of reason give, And in the light of truth thy bondman let me live!

He who has no mind to trade with the Devil should be so wise as to keep from his shop.

For every problem, there exists a simple and elegant solution which is absolutely wrong.

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

That is ever the difference between the wise and the unwise: the latter wonders at what is unusual; the wise man wonders at the usual.