Wise Quotes

4345 Wise quotes by 2060 unique authors

God saw fit, for wise reasons to allow the people of Israel thus to make and possess slaves; but is this any license to us… — Samuel Hopkins
True conservation provides for wise use by the general public. The American people do not want our resources preserved for the exclusive use of the… — George Aiken
Nothing can confound a wise man more than laughter from a dunce. — Lord Byron
Care more than others think wise. — Howard Schultz
Extreme nationalism and Bolshevism have broken up the old world, a new world is in the making. It is literally true that old things are… — John Raleigh Mott
Our lady the Common Law is a very wise old lady though she still has something to learn in telling what she knows. — Frederick Pollock
Your dear baby has died innocent and blameless, and has been called away by an all wise and merciful Creator, most probably from a life… — George Mason
That was my choice at that time, and I still say Nixon was a great president. A very beautiful and wise man. — Solomon Burke
For humble individuals like myself, there is one poor comfort, which is this, viz. that gout, unlike any other disease, kills more rich men than… — Thomas Sydenham
One should proceed with caution. We may simply not be wise enough to do some of the kinds of engineering things that people are talking… — Leon Kass
The residence of the Plymouth settlers in the Netherlands, and the later conquest of the Dutch colonies, had brought the Americans into contact with the… — Albert Bushnell Hart
Any fool can say he is wise but only someone wise can admit he is a fool. — Michael Reed
But Paul, in his preaching of the Gospel, is a debtor to deliver the word not to Barbarians only, but also to Greeks, and not… — Origen
My father also happened to be an intellectual, as learned, literate, informed, and curious as anyone I have known. Unobtrusively and casually, he was my… — James Tobin
If slavery, limited as it yet is, now threatens to subvert the Constitution, how can we as wise and prudent statesmen, enlarge its boundaries and… — William H. Seward
I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should appear like a fool but be wise. — Charles de Secondat
A fool is wise in his eyes. — King Solomon
The weak have remedies, the wise have joys; superior wisdom is superior bliss. — Edward Young
A wise traveler never depreciates their own country. — Carlo Goldoni
That is a good question for you to ask, not a wise question for me to answer. — Anthony Eden
A wise man looks upon men as he does on horses; all their comparisons of title, wealth, and place, he consider but as harness. — Robert Cecil
Tell me and I forget. Show me and I remember. Involve me and I understand. — John Gay
Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable. — John Patrick
For this is the mark of a wise and upright man, not to rail against the gods in misfortune. — Aeschylus
A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his… — Hippocrates

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