Wise Quotes · Page 56

He who is not just is severe, he who is not wise is sad.

— Voltaire

We think it would be wise in you to try to git [sic] influence by offering to print a paper in favor…

— Joseph Smith, Jr

Actions which are conscious expressions of the turn-on, tune-in, drop-out rhythm are religious.The wise person devotes his life exclusively to the religious…

— Timothy Leary

[A]ll popular and well-mixed governments [republics] . . . are ever established by wise and good men, and can never be upheld…

— Algernon Sidney

A fool is wise in his eyes.

— King Solomon

When I started doing these advocacy groups, it sort of propelled and compelled me to write songs, because otherwise I wasn't really…

— Thao Nguyen

Let him be wise, or let me be blind; don't let me, she hoped concretely, don't let me know too surely what…

— Shirley Jackson

Those alone are wise who know how to love.

— Seneca the Younger

A person is wise if he listens to millions of advice and doesn't implement any of it.

— Anonymous

"Do you like him much?" "I told you I liked him a little. Where is the use of caring for him so…

— Charlotte Bronte

“People like where their roots are, especially when they are away from them.”

— Augusto Branco

Aristotle and Plato are reckoned the respective heads of two schools. A wise man will see that Aristotle platonizes.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A change of fortune hurts a wise man no more than a change of the moon.

— Benjamin Franklin

I think humanity is not wise enough to know what genotype or somatype is going to be the most successful or the…

— Paul Di Filippo

A wise man is not governed by others, nor does he try to govern them; he prefers that reason alone prevail.

— Jean de la Bruyere

As a general rule, governments are wise to avoid taxation that is voluntary, as they need a steady stream of income.

— Jacob Rees-Mogg

Talk less and after thinking twice, I know you're good but you need to be wise.

— Senora Roy

I ask Thee for a thankful love, Through constant watching wise, To meet the glad with joyful smiles, And to wipe the…

— Anna Laetitia Waring

God belongs to all free beings. He is the life of all, the salvation of all ~faithful and unfaithful, just and unjust,…

— John Climacus

In your deliberations, when seeking to determine the military conditions, let them be made the basis of a comparison, in this wise:…

— Sun Tzu

If the way which I have pointed out as leading to this result (i.e., power over the emotions by which the wise…

— Baruch Spinoza

I confidently trust that the American people will prove themselves ... too wise not to detect the false pride or the dangerous…

— Carl Schurz

“Please others and you please yourself”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

I never made one of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking

— Albert Einstein

The wind in a man's face makes him wise.

— John Ray