Wise Quotes - page 3

A wise man loses nothing, if he but saves himself. (Michel de Montaigne)
Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go. View quote
Jean de La Fontaine
Nothing is as dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is to be preferred. View quote
Jean de La Fontaine
Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed. View quote
Edward Young
Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons. View quote
Robertson Davies
Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought. View quote
Matsuo Bashō
You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions. View quote
Naguib Mahfouz
For since the fabric of the universe is most perfect, and is the work of a most wise Creator, nothing whatsoever takes place in the universe in which some relation of maximum and minimum does not appear. View quote
Leonhard Euler
The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations. View quote
Benjamin Disraeli
Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth. View quote
Voltaire
Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him. (Dwight D. Eisenhower)
It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and say the opposite. View quote
Sam Levenson
Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author? View quote
Philip Gilbert Hamerton
A word to the wise is not sufficient if it doesn't make sense. View quote
James Thurber
The way to get on in the world is to be neither more nor less wise, neither better nor worse than your neighbours. View quote
William Hazlitt
Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists. View quote
Blaise Pascal
It is a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals. View quote
Felix Frankfurter
If mankind had always been logical and wise, history would not be a long chronicle of folly and crime. View quote
James Frazer
A wise traveler never despises his own country. View quote
Carlo Goldoni
To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men. View quote
Edmund Burke
Hip is the sophistication of the wise primitive in a giant jungle. (Norman Mailer)
Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich. View quote
Samuel Johnson
No man is great enough or wise enough for any of us to surrender our destiny to. The only way in which anyone can lead us is to restore to us the belief in our own guidance. View quote
Henry Miller
Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful. View quote
Seneca