Wisdom Wise Quotes

To know is not to be wise. To know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.

There are subjects in which I wish to become knowledgeable, and subjects in which I wish to remain wise.

Strike while the iron is hot.

A wise man will see to it that his acts always seem voluntary and not done by compulsion, however much he may be compelled by necessity.

If it be true that a man is rich who wants nothing, a wise man is a very rich man.

A wise man fights to win, but he is twice a fool who has no plan for possible defeat.

The fool wonders, the wise man asks.

I don't fancy colors of the face, I'm always attracted to colors of the brain.

It's bad taste to be wise all the time, like being at a perpetual funeral.

Just as it is agreed that we all wish to be happy, so it is that we all wish to be wise, since no one without wisdom is happy.

Store up reservoirs of calm and content and draw on them at later moments when the source isn't there, but the need is very great.

Cruel birds, ravens, but wise. And creatures should be loved for their wisdom if they cannot be loved for kindness.

Far best is he who is himself all-wise, and he, too, good who listens to wise words; But whoso is not wise or lays to hear another's wisdom is a useless man.

Be wiser than other people if you can; but do not tell them so.

My word is my pride, the wisdom is weak, and that's word from the wise.

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.

By associating with wise people you will become wise yourself.

A wise word is more rare than the green emerald, and one can find the word of wisdom even amongst the slave girls making grain.

If you are wise, all men will be your friends and kindred, for you will be useful.

There is but one genuine love potion - consideration.

The true use of history, whether civil or military, is not to make man clever for the next time, it is to make him wise forever.

No man was ever wise by chance.

I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had.

The wise are always impatient, for he that increases knowledge increases impatience of folly.

In the common run of mankind, for one that is wise and good you find ten of a contrary character.

I was born wise. Street-wise, people-wise, self-wise. This wisdom was my birthright.

Children are wise in a funny kind of way. They haven't developed so many vested interests of self. There is a wisdom, a lack of self-consciousness, that is innocence.

Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the rest is in the hands of God.

A wise man does not chatter with one whose mind is sick.

Fools despise wisdom and instruction.

Blessed if you do... Blessed if you don't... Blessed no matter what!

Lots of old people don't become wise, but you don't get wise unless you age.

The courage to speak must be matched by the wisdom to listen.

I hold those wise who know how to be happy.

Wise people are foolish if they cannot adapt to foolish people.

The cat would eat fish but would not get her feet wet.

He is no wise man who will quit a certainty for an uncertainty.

The wise man does not lay up treasure. The more he expends on others, the more he gains for himself. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.

Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth.

The tongue of a fool is the key of his counsel, which, in a wise man, wisdom hath in keeping.

A single question can be more influential than a thousand statements.

As nothing is more easy than to think, so nothing is more difficult than to think well.

Kindness is more persuasive than force.

The laws of man may bind him in chains or may put him to death, but they never can make him wise, virtuous, or happy.

Prejudice is not so much dependent upon natural antipathy as upon education.

Though one should live a hundred years without wisdom and control, yet better, indeed, is a single day's life of one who is wise and meditative.

A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

A good question is, of course, the key by which infinite answers can be educed.

Fortune seldom troubles the wise man. Reason has controlled his greatest and most important affairs, controls them throughout his life, and will continue to control them.

It is easy to be wise on behalf of others than to be so for ourselves.