Wise Quotes

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As long as she is wise and good, a girl has sufficient dowry. — Plautus
To know is not to be wise. To know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom. — Charles Spurgeon
The fathers who contrived and passed the Consititution were wise in their generation; as time passes, we come more and more to realize their powers… — Learned Hand
How wise are thy commandments, Lord. Each of them applies to somebody I know. — Sam Levenson
Genial manners are good, and power of accommodation to any circumstance, but the high prize of life, the crowning fortune of a man is to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Suppose that men kill thee, cut thee in pieces, curse thee, what can these things do to prevent thy mind from remaining pure, wise, sober,… — Marcus Aurelius
The argument of Alcidamas: Everyone honours the wise. Thus the Parians have honoured Archilochus, in spite of his bitter tongue; the Chians Homer, though he… — Aristotle
Success and suffering will either darken your heart or make you wise, but they won't leave you where you were. — Timothy Keller
You want to run out in front, prepare to be tripped from behind. — Albie Sachs
Philostratus, in his Life of Apollonius Tyaneus represents the latter as informing King Phraotes that "the Oneiropolists, or Interpreters of Visions, are wont never to… — Anna Kingsford
This is one of the results of that adventurous spirit which is now stalking forth and raging for its own innovations. We have not only… — Isaac D'Israeli
Statistics may be defined as "a body of methods for making wise decisions in the face of uncertainty. — W. Allen Wallis
Whatever you do in your life, try to become a kind, and wise human being. — Nawang Khechog
When "Why not do it?" barely outweighs "Why do it?" — don't do it. — Mignon McLaughlin
Gnomic wisdom, however, is notoriously polychrome, and proverbs depend for their truth entirely on the occasion they are applied to. Almost every wise saying has… — George Santayana
I have myself a poetical enthusiasm for pigs, and the paradise of my fancy is one where pigs have wings. But it is only men,… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Coffee renders many foolish people temporarily capable of wise actions — Baron de Montesquieu
The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always learns more from his opponents than from his fervent supporters. For… — Walter Lippmann
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… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If you wish a wise answer, you must put a rational question. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The wise man lives as long as he ought, not so long as he can. — Michel de Montaigne
I do know of these That therefore only are reputed wise For saying nothing. — William Shakespeare
Fashion, n. A despot whom the wise ridicule and obey. — Ambrose Bierce
Society is a more level surface than we imagine. Wise men or absolute fools are hard to be met with, as there are few giants… — William Hazlitt
God Almighty never created a man half as wise as he looks. — Thomas Carlyle

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