Wise Quotes

4345 Wise quotes by 2060 unique authors

I never was attached to that great sect, Whose doctrine is that each one should select Out of the crowd a mistress or a friend,… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
Tis held that sorrow makes us wise. — Alfred Lord Tennyson
People are never so near playing the fool as when they think themselves wise. — Mary Wortley Montagu
Friendship of the wise is good; a wise enemy is better than a foolish friend. — Unknown Author
If there's one thing I can't bear, it's people who are wise during the event. — Kenneth Tynan
The affairs of this world are so shifting and depend on so many accidents, that it is hard to form any judgment concerning the future;… — Francesco Guicciardini
The honor paid to a wise man is a great good for those who honor him. — Epicurus
Perhaps I am not as wise as I like to think I am. — Umberto Eco
Women are not so well united as to form an Insurrection. They are for the most part wise enough to love their Chains, and to… — Mary Astell
A President and his wise men can only propose; but Congress disposes. It is when President and Congress agree that American history marches forward. — Theodore White
Though man is the only beast that can write, he has small reason to be proud of it. When he utters something that is wise… — Edward Dahlberg
Full wise is he that can himselven knowe. — Geoffrey Chaucer
To be excited and at the same time satisfied; to desire and possess -that has been described somewhere as the wise man's idea of heaven. — Alec Waugh
The hallway of every man's life is paced with pictures; pictures gay and pictures gloomy, all useful, for if we be wise, we can learn… — Sean O'Casey
The Bible is proved to be a revelation from God, by the reasonableness and holiness of its precepts; all its commands, exhortations, and promises having… — Adam Clarke
A foolish man tells a woman to stop talking, but a wise man tells her that her mouth is extremely beautiful when her lips are… — Robert Bloch
It is the mind that makes one wise or ignorant, bound or emancipated. — Ramakrishna
I feel I want to be wise with white hair in a tall library in a deep chair by a fireplace. — Gregory Corso
One rabbi compared wise men studying the law to children tossing a ball to one another: a first sage said the meaning was this, another… — Israel Shenker
Above all, I would not expect a wise race, at great expense, to set loose an army of self-replicating robots. — Bernard M. Oliver
..(T)here are two opposite reasons for being a democrat. You may think all men so good that they deserve a share in the government of… — C.S. Lewis
Battery never dies, the ghetto keeps me wise. — Big Pun
That man is formed for social life is an observation which, upon our first inquiry, presents itself immediately to our view, and our reason approves… — Joseph Warren
Happy the days that have been consecrated to the remembrance of God, and blessed the hours which have been spent in praise of Him Who… — BahÃ¡'u'llÃ¡h
Work for god, love god alone, and be wise with god. When an ordinary man puts the necessary rime and enthusiasm into meditation and prayer,… — Paramahansa Yogananda

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