Wise Quotes

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The residence of the Plymouth settlers in the Netherlands, and the later conquest of the Dutch colonies, had brought the Americans into contact with the… — Albert Bushnell Hart
Any fool can say he is wise but only someone wise can admit he is a fool. — Michael Reed
But Paul, in his preaching of the Gospel, is a debtor to deliver the word not to Barbarians only, but also to Greeks, and not… — Origen
My father also happened to be an intellectual, as learned, literate, informed, and curious as anyone I have known. Unobtrusively and casually, he was my… — James Tobin
If slavery, limited as it yet is, now threatens to subvert the Constitution, how can we as wise and prudent statesmen, enlarge its boundaries and… — William H. Seward
I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should appear like a fool but be wise. — Charles de Secondat
A fool is wise in his eyes. — King Solomon
The weak have remedies, the wise have joys; superior wisdom is superior bliss. — Edward Young
A wise traveler never depreciates their own country. — Carlo Goldoni
That is a good question for you to ask, not a wise question for me to answer. — Anthony Eden
A wise man looks upon men as he does on horses; all their comparisons of title, wealth, and place, he consider but as harness. — Robert Cecil
Tell me and I forget. Show me and I remember. Involve me and I understand. — John Gay
Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable. — John Patrick
For this is the mark of a wise and upright man, not to rail against the gods in misfortune. — Aeschylus
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… — Hippocrates
If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise. — William Blake
The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation. — Isaac D'Israeli
My idea is always to reach my generation. The wise writer writes for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
We never can tell how our lives may work to the account of the general good, and we are not wise enough to know if… — Ellen Swallow Richards
He that will write well in any tongue, must follow this counsel of Aristotle, to speak as the common people do, to think as wise… — Roger Ascham

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