Wise Quotes

The world is afflicted by death and decay. But the wise do not grieve, having realized the nature of the world.

Nonsense! The most hopelessly stupid man is he who is not aware that he is wise.

Calling you an idiot would be an insult to all the stupid people.

The man who broods over the past can never master the difficulties of today. Every wise man learn to forget.

It has always been the opinion and judgment of wise men that nothing can be so uncertain as fame or power not founded on its own strength.

It is not in everyone's power to secure wealth, office, or honors; but everyone may be good, generous, and wise.

The wise never marry, and when they marry they become otherwise.

As a wise man once said: Wherever you go, there you are.

There's a time for daring and there's a time for caution, and a wise man understands which is called for.

One fool will deny more truth in half an hour than a wise man can prove in seven years.

Criticizing is easy, art is difficult.

There is but one genuine love potion - consideration.

I write not to record what I think but to discover what I think

The best fights are the ones you don't have", a wise man once said to me.

This is the highest point of philosophy, to be simple & wise; this is the angelic life.

What enables the wise sovereign and the good general to strike and conquer, and achieve things beyond the reach of ordinary men, is foreknowledge.

Let men be wise by instinct if they can, but when this fails be wise by good advice.

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.

We’re neither pure, nor wise, nor good; we do the best we know.

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.

The wise are not learned, the learned are not wise.

Personal Vision is often the catalyst for wise decisions.

The more pity, that fools may not speak wisely what wise men do foolishly.

Anybody who told you to be yourself simply couldn't have given you worse advice.

The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forbearing.

He who thinks with difficulty believes with alacrity. A fool is a natural proselyte, but he must be caught young, for his convictions, unlike those of the wise, harden with age.

I endeavor to be wise when I cannot be merry, easy when I cannot be glad, content with what cannot be mended, and patient when there be no redress.

To say no at the right time, and then stand by it, is the first element of success. He is the wise man who, for all his life, can keep mind and soul and body clean.

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.

The wise and honorable and Christian thing to do is to treat each black man and each white man (or any person) on his merits as a man, giving him no more and no less than he is worthy to have.

I would beg the wise and learned fathers [of the church] to consider with all diligence the difference which exists between matters of mere opinion and matters of demonstration.

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.

Everyone honors the wise.

Wiser, never wise. Smarter, never smart.

Politics are not an instrument for effecting social change; they are the art of making the inevitable appear to be a matter of wise human choice.

As a vessel is known by the sound, whether it be cracked or not; so men are proved, by their speeches, whether they be wise or foolish.

You need a plan to build a house. To build a life, it is even more important to have a plan or goal.

No wise man has called a change of opinion in constancy.

Cato used to assert that wise men profited more by fools than fools by wise men; for that wise men avoided the faults of fools, but that fools would not imitate the good examples of wise men.

A person is both wise and wealthy when you master the art of appreciating what you already have.

The stories we love best do live in us forever.

Oh, Vanity of vanities! How wayward the decrees of Fate are; How very weak the very wise, How very small the very great are!

The wise man avoids evil by anticipating it.

I think a Play the best divertisement that wise men have: but I do also think them nothing so who do discourse so formallie about the rules of it, as if 'twere the grand affair of humane life.

Chastisement is designed for our good, to promote our highest interests. Look beyond the rod to the All-wise hand that wields it!

She who loves roses must be patient and not cry out when she is pierced by thorns.

A traveler of taste will notice that the wise are polite all over the world, but the fool only at home.

A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.

In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool.

Lend, by your imperfections, self-esteem to others, and you will be invited everywhere.