Wise Quotes

4345 Wise quotes by 2060 unique authors

To be angry about trifles is mean and childish; to rage and be furious is brutish; and to maintain perpetual wrath is akin to the… — Isaac Watts
. . . indeed what reason may not go to Schoole to the wisdome of Bees, Ants, and Spiders? what wise hand teacheth them to… — Thomas Browne
Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness to someone else. — Hermann Hesse
For the wise have always known that no one can make much of his life until self-searching has become a regular habit, until he is… — Bill W.
The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practised, is to study and learn how… — Pierre Charron
For if the mystery concealed of old is made manifest to the Apostles through the prophetic writings, and if the prophets, being wise men, understood… — Origen
Seeing God hath thus set us at liberty, what rashness it is for worms of the earth to make new laws; as though God had… — John Calvin
It’s time to stop being vague. If you wish to be an extraordinary person, if you wish to be wise, then you should explicitly identify… — Epictetus
We must believe that He is able to do what He will, wise to do what is best, and good, according to His promise, to… — Matthew Henry
A very wise author once said that a writer writes for himself, and then publishes for money. I write for myself and publish just for… — Guillermo Cabrera Infante
The atomic bomb is a marvelous gift that was given to our country by a wise God. — Phyllis Schlafly
God has spoken to man, and the Bible is his Word, given to us to make us wise unto salvation... Godliness means responding to God's… — J I Packer
Be wise; soar not too high to fall; but stoop to rise. — Philip Massinger
A fool sees himself as another, but a wise man sees others as himself. — Dogen
Prefer to be defeated in the presence of the wise than to excel among fools. — Dogen
Acknowledging foolishness is a very powerful and important experience. We could almost say that being willing to be a fool is one of the first… — Chogyam Trungpa
Love is wise – Hatred is foolish. — Bertrand Russell
The wise and good are outnumbered a thousand to one by the brutal and stupid. — Douglas Preston
Clever men are impressed in their differences from their fellows. Wise men are conscious of their resemblance to them. — R. H. Tawney
There can be no wise politics without thought beforehand. — Annie Besant
Every wise workman takes his tools away from the work from time to time that they may be ground and sharpened; so does the only-wise… — Robert Murray M'Cheyne
I will be glad to discuss this proposition with my attorney, and that after I talk with one, we could either discuss it with him… — Lee Harvey Oswald
Scratch the surface in a typical boardroom and we're all just cavemen with briefcases, hungry for a wise person to tell us stories. — Alan Kay
I’ve always said that a wise businessperson will support the ANC… because supporting the ANC means you’re investing very well in your business — Jacob Zuma
Search men's governing principles, and consider the wise, what they shun and what they cleave to. — Marcus Aurelius

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