Wise Quotes - page 4

I am enormously wise and abysmally ignorant. (William Saroyan)
Be happy. It's one way of being wise. View quote
Colette
That's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over, lest you should think he never could recapture the first fine careless rapture! View quote
Robert Browning
It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone. View quote
François de La Rochefoucauld
In examinations the foolish ask questions that the wise cannot answer. View quote
Oscar Wilde
He that is not handsome at 20, nor strong at 30, nor rich at 40, nor wise at 50, will never be handsome, strong, rich or wise. View quote
George Herbert
Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time. View quote
Theodore Roosevelt
The first degree of folly is to conceit one's self wise the second to profess it the third to despise counsel. View quote
Benjamin Franklin
It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it may happen that those who need sympathy the most often attract it the least. View quote
F. H. Bradley
Wisdom is knowing when you can't be wise. View quote
Muhammad Ali
What could be more beautiful than a dear old lady growing wise with age? Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it. (Brigitte Bardot)
Defer not till tomorrow to be wise, Tomorrow's sun to thee may never rise. View quote
William Congreve
Be wise; Soar not too high to fall; but stoop, to rise. View quote
Philip Massinger
Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world. View quote
Helen Keller
A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees. View quote
William Blake
Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky. View quote
Michel de Montaigne
We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom. View quote
Michel de Montaigne
A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can. View quote
Michel de Montaigne
Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good. View quote
H. L. Mencken
A wise girl knows her limits, a smart girl knows that she has none. View quote
Marilyn Monroe
He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness. View quote
Stendhal
There has never been any country at every moment so virtuous and so wise that it has not sometimes needed to be saved from itself. View quote
Havelock Ellis
A wise man does not trust all his eggs to one basket. View quote
Miguel de Cervantes