Wise Quotes - page 2

I believe that water is the only drink for a wise man. (Henry David Thoreau)
It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanism of friendship. View quote
Colette
Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom. View quote
Charles Spurgeon
Life's Tragedy is that we get old to soon and wise too late. View quote
Benjamin Franklin
It is impossible to love and to be wise. View quote
Francis Bacon
You can't be wise and in love at the same time. View quote
Bob Dylan
It is never too late to be wise. View quote
Daniel Defoe
A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart. View quote
Jonathan Swift
Every man is wise when attacked by a mad dog; fewer when pursued by a mad woman; only the wisest survive when attacked by a mad notion. View quote
Robertson Davies
Our greatest stupidities may be very wise. View quote
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Many receive advice, but the wise profit from it. (Publilius Syrus)
I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should appear like a fool but be wise. View quote
Montesquieu
Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men. View quote
Thomas Henry Huxley
Experience is the only prophecy of wise men. View quote
Alphonse de Lamartine
Cabbage: a familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
He who lives without committing any folly is not so wise as he thinks. View quote
François de La Rochefoucauld
It is easier to be wise for others than for oneself. View quote
François de La Rochefoucauld
Fools talk, cowards are silent, wise men listen. View quote
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool. View quote
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Yesterday I was clever. That is why I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise. That is why I am changing myself. View quote
Sri Chinmoy
Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance. (Isaac Asimov)
A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence. View quote
David Hume
No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right. View quote
Helen Keller
The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier. View quote
Jonathan Swift
If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise. View quote
William Blake