Wise Quotes

4345 quotes by 2190 authors

It is never wise to slip the bands of discipline. — Lew Wallace
True words aren't eloquent; eloquent words aren't true. Wise men don't need to prove their point; men who need to prove their point aren't wise.… — Laozi
Power is the basic energy needed to initiate and sustain action or, to put it another way, the capacity to translate intention into reality and… — Warren G. Bennis
Wise people learn when they can; fools learn when they must. — Duke of Wellington
I am really sorry to see my countrymen trouble themselves about politics. If men were wise, the most arbitrary princes could not hurt them. If… — William Blake
The wise man applauds he who he thinks most virtuous; the rest of the world applauds the wealthy. — Samuel Johnson
A person who is wise does nothing against their will, nothing with sighing or under coercion. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
With children use force; with men reason; such is the natural order of things. The wise man requires no law. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Thou hast a voice, great Mountain, to repeal. Large codes of fraud and woe; not understood by all, but which the wise, and great, and… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
No wise man can have a contempt for the prejudices of others; and he should even stand in a certain awe of his own, as… — William Hazlitt
Wisdom is like electricity. There is no permanently wise man, but men capable of wisdom, who, being put into certain company, or other favorable conditions,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I say, the acknowledgment of God in ChristAccepted by thy reason, solves for theeAll questions in the earth and out of it,And has so far… — Robert Browning
He who is really good can never be unhappy. He who is really wise can never be perplexed. He who is really brave is never… — Confucius
There are three marks of a superior man: being virtuous, he is free from anxiety; being wise, he is free from perplexity; being brave, he… — Confucius
Who combats bravely is not therefore brave, He dreads a death-bed like the meanest slave: Who reasons wisely is not therefore wise,- His pride in… — Alexander Pope
The Mask "Put off that mask of burning gold With emerald eyes." "O no, my dear, you make so bold To find if hearts be… — William Butler Yeats
Every human being has a right to hear what other wise human beings have spoken to him. It is one of the Rights of Men;… — Thomas Carlyle
I have heeded the lessons of the wise in that when life kicks me in the head, I turn to it my hind section also. — Wes Fesler
Wise to resolve, patient to perform. — Friedrich Schiller
They would need to be already wise, in order to love wisdom. — Friedrich Schiller

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