Wise Quotes - page 7

Nothing would more contribute to make a man wise than to have always an enemy in his view. (George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax)
It is much easier to make good men wise, than to make bad men good. View quote
Henry Fielding
There are more fools than wise men, and even in a wise man there is more folly than wisdom. View quote
Nicolas Chamfort
Dogs are wise. They crawl away into a quiet corner and lick their wounds and do not rejoin the world until they are whole once more. View quote
Agatha Christie
Angry people are not always wise. View quote
Jane Austen
It is sometimes wise to forget who we are. View quote
Publilius Syrus
Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise. View quote
Francis Bacon
It's not wise to violate rules until you know how to observe them. View quote
T. S. Eliot
No wise fish would go anywhere without a porpoise. View quote
Lewis Carroll
Mock mockers after that That would not lift a hand maybe To help good, wise or great To bar that foul storm out, for we Traffic in mockery. View quote
William Butler Yeats
Oh, Love is the crooked thing, there is nobody wise enough to find out all that is in it, for he will be thinking about love til the stars run away and the shadows eaten the moon... (William Butler Yeats)
To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future. View quote
Plutarch
It is wise to be silent when occasion requires, and better than to speak, though never so well. View quote
Plutarch
To a wise man, the whole earth is open; for the native land of a good soul is the whole earth. View quote
Democritus
I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable. View quote
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Every human being has, like Socrates, an attendant spirit; and wise are they who obey its signals. If it does not always tell us what to do, it always cautions us what not to do. View quote
Lydia Maria Child
Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks. View quote
Heinrich Heine
A wise skepticism is the first attribute of a good critic. View quote
James Russell Lowell
The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind. View quote
William Wordsworth
Type of the wise who soar but never roam, True to the kindred points of heaven and home. View quote
William Wordsworth
Nor less I deem that there are Powers Which of themselves our minds impress That we can feed this mind of ours In a wise passiveness. (William Wordsworth)
Babylon, Learned and wise, hath perished utterly, Nor leaves her speech one word to aid the sigh That would lament her. View quote
William Wordsworth
Give unto me, made lowly wise, The spirit of self-sacrifice The confidence of reason give, And in the light of truth thy bondman let me live. View quote
William Wordsworth
And he is oft the wisest man Who is not wise at all. View quote
William Wordsworth
It was a wise and useful provision of the ancients to transmit their thoughts to posterity by recording them in treatises, so that they should not be lost, but, being developed in succeeding generations through publications in books, should gradually attain in later times, to the highest refinement of learning. View quote
Vitruvius