Wise Quotes - page 10

Before, you are wise; after, you are wise. In between you are otherwise. (David Zindell)
Laws for the liberal education of youth, especially of the lower class of people, are so extremely wise and useful, that, to a humane and generous mind, no expense for this purpose would be thought extravagant. View quote
John Adams
A wise and frugal Government, which shall retrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
The belief in a God All Powerful wise and good, is so essential to the moral order of the world and to the happiness of man, that arguments which enforce it cannot be drawn from too many sources nor adapted with too much solicitude to the different characters and capacities to be impressed with it. View quote
James Madison
To form a truly free constitution, that's to say, truly just and wise, the first point, the main point, the capital point, is that all the laws be agreed on by the people, after considered reflection, and especially having taken time to see what's at stake... View quote
Jean-Paul Marat
The wise men were all fools, what to do? View quote
Bruce Springsteen
Wisdom includes not getting angry unnecessarily. The Law ignores trifles and the wise man does, too. View quote
Robert A. Heinlein
The fool wanders, a wise man travels. View quote
Thomas Fuller
The idea of hereditary legislators is as inconsistent as that of hereditary judges, or hereditary juries; and as absurd as an hereditary mathematician, or an hereditary wise man; and as ridiculous as an hereditary poet-laureat. View quote
Thomas Paine
There is no one thoroughly despicable. We cannot descend much lower than an idiot; and an idiot has some advantages over a wise man. View quote
William Hazlitt
A wise man once said, "never discuss philosophy or politics in a disco environment." (Frank Zappa)
I told you that your dream was a difficult one. It's the simple things in life that are the most extraordinary; only wise men are able to understand them. View quote
Paulo Coelho
The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love. View quote
Paulo Coelho
There's a lot of people I've encouraged and helped to get into the House of Commons. Looking at them now, I'm not so sure it was a wise thing to do. View quote
Edward Heath
I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
Who looks in the sun will see no light else; but also he will see no shadow. Our life revolves unceasingly, but the centre is ever the same, and the wise will regard only the seasons of the soul. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
That's what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he's wise. View quote
George Eliot
It takes a wise man to recognize a wise man. View quote
Xenophanes
Many words have been granted me, and some are wise and some are false, but only three are holy 'I will it' View quote
Ayn Rand
You have to look at what you have right in front of you, at what it could be, and stop measuring it against what you've lost. I know this to be wise and true, just as I know that pretty much no one can do it. View quote
Jonathan Tropper
I forget who it was that recommended men for their soul's good to do each day two things they disliked: it was a wise man, and it is a precept that I have followed scrupulously; for every day I have got up and I have gone to bed. (W. Somerset Maugham)
If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one, but the wise man is foolish to give them the lie. View quote
W. Somerset Maugham
An uniformity of weights and measures, arranged upon mathematical principles, would be a benefit to the whole commercial world, if it were wise enough to adopt such an expedient. View quote
Jean-Baptiste Say
I wish I was dead, And lay deep in the grave. I've a pain in my head, I wish I was dead. In a coffin of lead- With the Wise and the Brave- I wish I was dead, And lay deep in the grave. View quote
Maurice Baring
In my many years as a Representative in Congress it is my observation that the district that is best represented is the district that is wise enough to select a man of energy, intelligence, and integrity and reelects him year after year. A man of this type and character serves more efficiently and effectively the longer he is returned by his people. View quote
Sam Rayburn