Wise Quotes - page 8

What the wise do in the beginning, fools do in the end. (Warren Buffett)
The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind. View quote
Kahlil Gibran
Go where he will, the wise man is at home, His hearth the earth, his hall the azure dome. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Those who would administer wisely must, indeed, be wise, for one of the serious obstacles to the improvement of our race is indiscriminate charity. View quote
Andrew Carnegie
A wise man once said, Convention is like the shell to the chick, a protection till he is strong enough to break it through. View quote
Learned Hand
An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight... the truly wise person is colorblind. View quote
Albert Schweitzer
Be wise to-day 't is madness to defer. View quote
Edward Young
'T is greatly wise to talk with our past hours, And ask them what report they bore to heaven. View quote
Edward Young
Titles are marks of honest men, and wise The fool or knave that wears a title lies. View quote
Edward Young
I hope the time is not far off when I shall be able to unite all the wise and educated men of all the countries and establish a uniform regime based on the principles of the Quran which alone are true and which alone can lead men to happiness. (Napoleon Bonaparte)
A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses. View quote
Hippocrates
The man who can keep a secret may be wise, but he is not half as wise as the man with no secrets to keep. View quote
E. W. Howe
It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life. View quote
Victor Hugo
The tall, the wise, the reverend head Must lie as low as ours. View quote
Isaac Watts
They say philosophers and wise men are indifferent. Wrong. Indifference is a paralysis of the soul, a premature death. View quote
Anton Chekhov
Begin, be bold and venture to be wise. View quote
Horace
The little foolery that wise men have makes a great show. View quote
William Shakespeare
Education that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge. View quote
Mark Twain
The greatest misfortune of the wise man and the greatest unhappiness of the fool are based upon convention. View quote
Franz Schubert
Wise men say nothing in dangerous times. (John Selden)
When I was young, I was extremely scared of dying. But now I think it a very, very wise arrangement. It's like a light that is extinguished. Not very much to make a fuss about. View quote
Ingmar Bergman
If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual. View quote
Frank Herbert
Facts are ventriloquists' dummies. Sitting on a wise man's knee they may be made to utter words of wisdom elsewhere they say nothing, or talk nonsense, or indulge in sheer nonsense. View quote
Aldous Huxley
True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance. View quote
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