Wise Quotes

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We were wise indeed, could we discern truly the signs of our own time; and by knowledge of its wants and advantages, wisely adjust our… — Thomas Carlyle
It is natural for men to want power. But to seek power actively takes a temperament baffling to both the simple and the wise. The… — Gore Vidal
We must first pray, that God would make us wise; before we can wish, he would make us happy. — Joseph Hall
He that is rich is wise. — Daniel Defoe
We deny that it is fun to be saving. It is fun to be prodigal. Go to the butterfly, thou parsimonious sluggard; consider her ways… — Franklin P. Adams
There was never a wise saying that couldn't be made wiser by adding the words, "and vice-versa. — Robert Breault
Every man who has seen the world knows that nothing is so useless as a general maxim.... If, like those of Rochefoucault, it be sparkling… — Thomas B. Macaulay
Ah! but the moods lie in his nature, my boy, just as much as his reflections did, and more. A man can never do anything… — George Eliot
Use your energy for good and it will be replenished with more good energy, use you energy for bad and your energy will be drained. — Michael Dolan
We must have passed through life unobservantly, if we have never perceived that a man is very much himself what he thinks of others. — Frederick William Faber
Create each day anew by clothing yourself with heaven and earth, bathing yourself with wisdom and love, and placing yourself in the heart of Mother… — Morihei Ueshiba
A wise word is not a substitute for a piece of herring. — Sholom Aleichem
The more relaxed you are, the better you are at everything. — Bill Murray
Walk lightly through life. — Guy Finley
Wisdom is a condition of consciousness rather than an attitude of mind. Wisdom is that state of being in which an individual finds himself when… — Manly Hall
When you are in love you are not wise; or, when you are wise you are not in love. — Publilius Syrus
A god could hardly love and be wise. — Publilius Syrus
We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression; the heart of a wise man should resemble a mirror, which reflects every object without… — Confucius
The wise man doesn't compete; therefore nobody can compete with him. — Laozi
The lust of fame is the last that a wise man shakes off. — Tacitus
A wise man may be duped as well as a fool; but the fool publishes the triumph of the deceiver. — Charles Caleb Colton
The wise man, the sage, is hostile to the new. Disabused, he abdicates: that is his form of protest. — Emile M. Cioran
Walking is the favorite sport of the good and wise. — Alfred Leslie Rowse
What we are, and where we are, is God's providential arrangement ... and the manly and wise way is to look your disadvantages in the… — Frederick William Robertson
All the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites or subparasites. — Ben Jonson

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