Wise Quotes - page 6

I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago. (Edgar Allan Poe)
The wise man thinks once before he speaks twice. View quote
Robert Benchley
Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise. View quote
Cato the Elder
I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had. View quote
Margaret Mead
He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has. View quote
Epictetus
It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them. View quote
Epictetus
He is no wise man that will quit a certainty for an uncertainty. View quote
Samuel Johnson
To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of the weary pilgrimage. View quote
Samuel Johnson
Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause a while from learning to be wise. There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the jail. View quote
Samuel Johnson
We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
No man was ever wise by chance. (Seneca)
The monsters of our childhood do not fade away, neither are they ever wholly monstrous. But neither, in my experience, do we ever reach a plane of detachment regarding our parents, however wise and old we may become. To pretend otherwise is to cheat. View quote
John le Carré
A word to the wise is infuriating. View quote
Hunter S. Thompson
A wise parent humours the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and adviser when his absolute rule shall cease. View quote
Elizabeth Gaskell
Remember that other people may be totally wrong. But they don't think so. Don't condemn them. Any fool can do that. Try to understand them. Only wise, tolerant, exceptional people even try to do that. View quote
Dale Carnegie
That is the greatest fallacy, the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor. View quote
Sholem Aleichem
The will is free Strong is the soul, and wise, and beautiful The seeds of godlike power are in us still Gods are we, bards, saints, heroes, if we will. View quote
Matthew Arnold
The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves. View quote
Oscar Wilde
We live in an age that reads too much to be wise, and that thinks too much to be beautiful. View quote
Oscar Wilde
Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart. (Alan Alda)
Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent. View quote
Napoleon Hill
[...] where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise. View quote
Thomas Gray
But war 's a game which were their subjects wise Kings would not play at. View quote
William Cowper
The wise man reads both books and life itself. View quote
Lin Yutang