Wise Quotes - page 5

Be wisely worldly, not worldly wise. (Francis Quarles)
Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago. View quote
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
He who would begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin. View quote
Horace
A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation. View quote
Molière
The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool. View quote
William Shakespeare
There is no happiness where there is no wisdom No wisdom but in submission to the gods. Big words are always punished, And proud men in old age learn to be wise. View quote
Sophocles
The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations. View quote
William Feather
It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look further than you can see. View quote
Winston Churchill
When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise. View quote
Winston Churchill
I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in either of them: Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden. View quote
Augustine of Hippo
Chinese are wise in comprehending without many words what is inevitable and inescapable and therefore only to be borne. (Pearl S. Buck)
The fool wonders, the wise man asks. View quote
Benjamin Disraeli
If a wise man behaves prudently, how can he be overcome by his enemies? Even a single man, by right action, can overcome a host of foes. View quote
Saskya Pandita
A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones that need the advice. View quote
Bill Cosby
Today, certain people file for bankruptcy, businesses and individuals, and it no longer has the stigma it once had. Now it's almost considered wise, a way to regroup and come back again. View quote
David Dinkins
The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself, he becomes wise. View quote
Alden Nowlan
I pray Heaven to bestow the best of blessings on this house and all that shall hereafter inhabit it. May none but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof. View quote
John Adams
No wise man can have a contempt for the prejudices of others and he should even stand in a certain awe of his own, as if they were aged parents and monitors. They may in the end prove wiser than he. View quote
William Hazlitt
The wise are wise only because they love. View quote
Paulo Coelho
The wise men understood that this natural world is only an image and a copy of paradise. The existence of this world is simply a guarantee that there exists a world that is perfect. God created the world so that, through its visible objects, men could understand his spiritual teachings and the marvels of his wisdom. View quote
Paulo Coelho
All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man. (Henry David Thoreau)
None can be an impartial or wise observer of human life but from the vantage ground of what we should call voluntary poverty. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
Coffee, which makes the politician wise, And see through all things with his half-shut eyes. View quote
Alexander Pope
The wise determine from the gravity of the case; the irritable, from sensibility to oppression; the high minded, from disdain and indignation at abusive power in unworthy hands. View quote
Edmund Burke