Wise Quotes

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One way in which fools succeed where wise men fail is that through ignorance of the danger they sometimes go coolly about a hazardous business. — Richard Whately
We cannot at once catch the applauses of the vulgar and expect the approbation of the wise. — Walter Savage Landor
The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander. — Walter Savage Landor
Wise thinkers prevail everywhere. — Sophocles
It were as wise to cast a violet into a crucible that you might discover the formal principle of its color and odor, as seek… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
I never was attached to that great sect, Whose doctrine is that each one should select Out of the crowd a mistress or a friend,… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
Tis held that sorrow makes us wise. — Alfred Lord Tennyson
People are never so near playing the fool as when they think themselves wise. — Mary Wortley Montagu
Friendship of the wise is good; a wise enemy is better than a foolish friend. — Unknown Author
If there's one thing I can't bear, it's people who are wise during the event. — Kenneth Tynan
The affairs of this world are so shifting and depend on so many accidents, that it is hard to form any judgment concerning the future;… — Francesco Guicciardini
The honor paid to a wise man is a great good for those who honor him. — Epicurus
Perhaps I am not as wise as I like to think I am. — Umberto Eco
Women are not so well united as to form an Insurrection. They are for the most part wise enough to love their Chains, and to… — Mary Astell
A President and his wise men can only propose; but Congress disposes. It is when President and Congress agree that American history marches forward. — Theodore White
Though man is the only beast that can write, he has small reason to be proud of it. When he utters something that is wise… — Edward Dahlberg
Full wise is he that can himselven knowe. — Geoffrey Chaucer
To be excited and at the same time satisfied; to desire and possess -that has been described somewhere as the wise man's idea of heaven. — Alec Waugh
The hallway of every man's life is paced with pictures; pictures gay and pictures gloomy, all useful, for if we be wise, we can learn… — Sean O'Casey
The Bible is proved to be a revelation from God, by the reasonableness and holiness of its precepts; all its commands, exhortations, and promises having… — Adam Clarke

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