Wise Quotes

4345 quotes by 2190 authors

It costs nothing to ask wise advice from a good friend. — George S. Clason
Thus Aragorn for the first time in the full light of day beheld Ã‰owyn, Lady of Rohan, and thought her fair, fair and cold, like… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Depend on it. God's work done in God's way will never lack God's supply. He is too wise a God to frustrate His purposes for… — Hudson Taylor
The will of God is sweet tonight, altogether â€˜good and acceptable and perfect.â€™ The considerate love of the Lord Jesus for us seems such a… — Jim Elliot
The wise know their limitations; the foolish do not. — Benjamin Hoff
The Wise are silent, the Foolish speak, and children are thus led astray. — Algernon Blackwood
We might be wise to follow the insight of the enraptured heart rather than the more cautious reasoning of the theological mind. — Aiden Wilson Tozer
You count snouts,â€ Straha said. â€œWhichever side can persuade most snouts to join it prevails. It does not have to be clever. It does not… — Harry Turtledove
From all wise men, O Lord, protect us. — Orson Scott Card
We live in an age that reads too much to be wise, and that thinks too much to be beautiful. — Oscar Wilde
The only real difference between a wise man and a fool, Moore knew, was that the wise man tended to make more serious mistakesâ€”and only… — Tom Clancy
However much you study, you cannot know without action. A donkey laden with books is neither an intellectual nor a wise man. Empty of essence,… — Saadi
Make-up can only make you look pretty on the outside but it doesn't help if your ugly on the inside. Unless you eat the make-up. — Audrey Hepburn
SAGE. A wise and Holy man who died a long time ago. No one modern qualifies. — Diana Wynne Jones
There are essentially two things that will make you wise -- the books you read and the people you meet. — Jack Canfield
â€¦to the inspiration of necessity, we owe half the wise, beautiful, and useful blessings of the world. — Louisa May Alcott
He could remember all about it now; the pitiful figure he must have cut; the absurd way in which he had gone and done the… — Elizabeth Gaskell
All that glitters is not gold; Often have you heard that told: Many a man his life has sold But my outside to behold: Gilded… — William Shakespeare
You are not wise enough to fear me as I should be feared. — Patrick Rothfuss
Few things are needed to make a wise man happy; nothing can make a fool content; that is why most men are miserable. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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