Wise Quotes

4345 Wise quotes by 2060 unique authors

Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men? — Natalie Clifford Barney
Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought. — Matsuo Basho
If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius. — Joseph Addison
Job-wise, I did have a moment of panic that I should have been a doctor a few years ago, but I hate when people vomit. — Kate Beckinsale
When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the… — Alexander Graham Bell
The past is our definition. We may strive with good reason to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it. But we will… — Wendell Berry
Quick condemnation of all that is not ours, of views with which we disagree, of ideas that do not attract us, is the sign of… — Annie Besant
Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding. — Ambrose Bierce
Cabbage: a familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head. — Ambrose Bierce
The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way. — Josh Billings
There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply. — Josh Billings
It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish. — Aeschylus
It is best for the wise man not to seem wise. — Aeschylus
Search well and be wise, nor believe that self-willed pride will ever be better than good counsel. — Aeschylus
A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees. — William Blake
The fool who persists in his folly will become wise. — William Blake
The one knowing what is profitable, and not the man knowing many things, is wise. — Aeschylus
The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction. — William Blake
The wisest of the wise may err. — Aeschylus
Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own. — Aesop
Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise... specialized competence… — Allan Bloom
'How do you know so much about everything?' was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was 'By never being afraid… — John Abbott
When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left,… — Erma Bombeck
The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow… — Christian Nestell Bovee
Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well. — Andre Breton

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