Wise Quotes

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Oh, Vanity of vanities! How wayward the decrees of Fate are; How very weak the very wise, How very small the very great are! — William Makepeace Thackeray
One of the Seven [wise men of Greece] was wont to say: That laws were like cobwebs, where the small flies are caught and the… — Francis Bacon
Who shall forbid a wise skepticism, seeing that there is no practical question on which anything more than an approximate solution can be had? — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wisdom is not communicable. The wisdom which a wise man tries to communicate always sounds foolish. — Hermann Hesse
Instead of looking on discussion as a stumbling block in the way of action, we think it an indispensable preliminary to any wise action at… — Pericles
A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority. There… — Henry David Thoreau
To avoid causing terror to living beings, let the disciple refrain from eating meat... the food of the wise is that which is consumed by… — Gautama Buddha
Her kitsch was the image of home, all peace, quiet, and harmony, and ruled by a loving mother and a wise father. It was an… — Milan Kundera
Why do men like me want sons? he wondered. It must be because they hope in their poor beaten souls that these new men, who… — John Steinbeck
For the wise old man was universally beloved, and ministered so beautifully to his flock that many of them thanked him all their lives for… — Louisa May Alcott
And they need not cause you grief. As my Highland grandmother said-and she had the Sight-Tis not the dead ye have to be concerned about!… — Kerry Greenwood
Several devices he has to draw souls to sin, and several plots he has to keep souls from all holy and heavenly services, and several… — Thomas Brooks
Our history is every human history; a black and gory business, with more scoundrels than wise men at the lead, and more louts than both… — Philip Wylie
The birds did not understand a single word of what he was saying, but that made no matter, for they put their heads on one… — Oscar Wilde
Cruel birds, ravens, but wise. And creatures should be loved for their wisdom if they cannot be loved for kindness. — Hannah Kent
What the wise seek is in themselves — Confucius
To live is to dream, and to dream pleasantly is to be wise. — Friedrich Schiller
It is too often seen, that the wiser men are about the things of this world, the less wise they are about the things of… — Edmund Gibson
The wise man is but a clever infant, spelling letters from a hieroglyphical prophetic book, the lexicon of which lies in eternity. — Thomas Carlyle
Wise men are able to make a fitting use even of their enmities. — Plutarch

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