Wise Quotes

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So the state founded on natural principles is wise as a whole in virtue of the knowledge inherent in its smallest constituent class, which exercises… — Plato
Because, unlike courage and wisdom, which made our state brave and wise by being present in a particular part of it, discipline operates by being… — Plato
Justice in the individual is now defined analogously to justice in the state. The individual is wise and brave in virtue of his reason and… — Plato
History shows that great economic and social forces flow like a tide over communities only half conscious of that which is befalling them. Wise statesmen… — John Stuart Mill
The Errors of a Wise Man make your Rule Rather than the Perfections of a Fool. — William Blake
Believe nothing because it is written in books. Believe nothing because wise men say it is so. Believe nothing because it is religious doctrine. Believe… — Gautama Buddha
It is wise not to seek a secret, and honest not to reveal one. — William Penn
You will, if you're wise and know the art of travel, let yourself go on the stream of the unknown and accept whatever comes in… — Freya Stark
There cannot always be fresh fields of conquest by the knife; there must be portions of the human frame that will ever remain sacred from… — John Eric Erichsen
There are subjects in which I wish to become knowledgeable, and subjects in which I wish to remain wise. — Robert Breault
The kind of man who always thinks that he is right, that his opinions, his pronouncements, are the final word, when once exposed shows nothing… — Sophocles
A wise man first thinks and then speaks and a fool speaks first and then thinks. — Ali ibn Abi Talib
The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own. — Laozi
A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man… — Seneca the Younger
A wise man does not chatter with one whose mind is sick. — Sophocles
A wise man should so write (though in words understood by all men) that wise men only should be able to commend him. — Thomas Hobbes
Life will always remain a gamble, with prizes sometimes for the imprudent, and blanks so often to the wise. — Jerome K. Jerome
Each of us has that right, that possibility, to invent ourselves daily. If a person does not invent herself, she will be invented. So, to… — Maya Angelou
A wise son makes a glad father, But a foolish son is the grief of his mother. — Solomon
The Greek word for philosopher (philosophos) connotes a distinction from sophos. It signifies the lover of wisdom (knowledge) as distinguished from him who considers himself… — Karl Jaspers

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