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Wise Quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- If you want a wise answer, ask a reasonable question.
- No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.
- Nature is beneficent. I praise her and all her works. She is silent and wise. She is cunning, but for good ends. She has brought…
- There is nothing by which men display their character so much as in what they consider ridiculous... Fools and sensible men are equally innocuous. It…
- Fools and wise men are equally harmless. It is the half-fools and half-wise that are dangerous.
- People always fancy that we must become old to become wise; but, in truth, as years advance, it is hard to keep ourselves as wise…
- If you wish a wise answer, you must put a rational question.
- Beware of a man of one book.
- It is in the half fools and the half wise that the greatest danger lies.
- Divide and command, a wise maxim; Unite and guide, a better.
- Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.
- Divide and rule, the politician cries; unite and lead, is watchword of the wise.
- If I love you, what business is it of yours?
- Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.
- Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.
- A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
- All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, until…
- It is delightful to transport one's self into the spirit of the past, to see how a wise man has thought before us
More Wise Quotes
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain. — Aristotle
- The gods too are fond of a joke. — Aristotle
- The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he… — Aristotle
- We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner… — Aristotle
- A wise person decides slowly but abides by these decisions. — Arthur Ashe
- Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. — Isaac Asimov
- Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge,… — Isaac Asimov
- I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in either of… — Saint Augustine
- It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live. — Marcus Aurelius
- To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution. — Marcus Aurelius
- It is wise to keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final. — Roger Babson