Wise Quotes

4345 Wise quotes by 2060 unique authors

Laws for the liberal education of youth, especially of the lower class of people, are so extremely wise and useful, that, to a humane and… — John Adams
You’re just the romantic age,” she continued- “fifty. Twenty-five is too worldly wise; thirty is apt to be pale from overwork; forty is the age… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
I'm serious, Harry, don't go." But Harry only had one thought in his head, which was to get back in front of the mirror, and… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Many are the strange chances of the world,' said Mithrandir, 'and help oft shall come from the hands of the weak when the Wise falter. — J.R.R. Tolkien
Talk is free but the wise man chooses when to spend his words. — Neil Gaiman
Whitestorm was experienced, wise and brave. When Firestar had been made deputy, he had shown not a scrap of resentment that a lesser cat might… — Erin Hunter
For other people, I can't speak - but, personally, I haven't gotten wise on anything. Certainly, I've been through this and that; and when it… — Christopher Isherwood
It's the questions we can't answer that teach us the most. They teach us how to think. If you give a man an answer, all… — Patrick Rothfuss
the shell must break before the bird can fly. — Alfred Lord Tennyson
To love God is to love His will. It is to wait quietly for life to be measured by One who knows us through and… — Elisabeth Elliot
Everything is always a story, but the loveliest ones are those that get written and are not torn up and are taken to a friend… — Janet Frame
I do profess to be no less than I seem; to serve him truly that will put me in trust: to love him that is… — William Shakespeare
I remeber asking a wise man, once . . . 'Why do Men fear the dark?' . . . 'Because darkness' he told me, 'is… — R. Scott Bakker
It comes back to the old question: How can the Bible be so wise in some places and so barbaric in others? And why should… — A. J. Jacobs
A philosopher is a lover of wisdom, not of knowledge, which for all its great uses ultimately suffers from the crippling effect of ephemerality. All… — Shashi Tharoor
It costs nothing to ask wise advice from a good friend. — George S. Clason
Thus Aragorn for the first time in the full light of day beheld Éowyn, Lady of Rohan, and thought her fair, fair and cold, like… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Depend on it. God's work done in God's way will never lack God's supply. He is too wise a God to frustrate His purposes for… — Hudson Taylor
The will of God is sweet tonight, altogether ‘good and acceptable and perfect.’ The considerate love of the Lord Jesus for us seems such a… — Jim Elliot
The wise know their limitations; the foolish do not. — Benjamin Hoff
The Wise are silent, the Foolish speak, and children are thus led astray. — Algernon Blackwood
We might be wise to follow the insight of the enraptured heart rather than the more cautious reasoning of the theological mind. — Aiden Wilson Tozer
You count snouts,” Straha said. “Whichever side can persuade most snouts to join it prevails. It does not have to be clever. It does not… — Harry Turtledove
From all wise men, O Lord, protect us. — Orson Scott Card
We live in an age that reads too much to be wise, and that thinks too much to be beautiful. — Oscar Wilde

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