Wise Quotes

4345 Wise quotes by 2060 unique authors

Zip codes might be great for sorting mail, but they should not determine the quality of a child s education or success in the future… — Bob Wise
Fate is the friend of the good, the guide of the wise, the tyrant of the foolish, the enemy of the bad. — William Rounseville Alger
Scents bring memories, and many memories bring nostalgic pleasure. We would be wise to plan for this when we plant a garden. — Thalassa Cruso
A person is both wise and wealthy when you master the art of appreciating what you already have. — Zelig Pliskin
The finest piece of mechanism in all the universe is the brain of man. The wise person develops his brain, and opens his mind to… — Alfred Armand Montapert
Wouldn't it be wonderful to have a wise and intuitive counselor available 24/7? You're in luck-you already have one. Your body! Our bodies carry ancient… — Sue Thoele
True friends see who we really are, hear our words and the feelings behind them, hold us in the safe harbor of their embrace, and… — Sue Thoele
Still others commit all sorts of evil deeds, claiming karma doesn't exist. They erroneously maintain that since everything is empty, committing evil isn't wrong. Such… — Bodhidharma
The old Lakota was wise. He knew that a man's heart away from nature becomes hard. — Luther Standing Bear
More often than not, in order to find truth, a wise man must suffer the ravings of the insane. There is no undiscovered truth to… — Derek R. Audette
At the gates of the forest, the surprised man of the world is forced to leave his city estimates of great and small, wise and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The errors of a wise man are literally more instructive than the truths of a fool. The wise man travels in lofty, far-seeing regions; the… — Thomas Carlyle
Nature is the time-vesture of God that reveals Him to the wise, and hides him from the foolish. — Thomas Carlyle
The hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideas. — Joseph Addison
To be afraid of our next life because we don't feel we've done a good job with this life is not wise. It creates unhappiness… — Frederick Lenz
If you'd like to have a better incarnation, then have one now. If that's your attitude, just let go and meditate and try to be… — Frederick Lenz
If you sat down and you wrote a script, you may write something that's way beyond what you've ever seen me do, but if you… — Morgan Freeman
It's a very wise thing for people to rationally sit down and look at what the risks are not only on a daily basis, on… — Benjamin Carson
There are men steady and wise whose body, words and mind are self-controlled. They are the men of supreme self-control. — Publilius Syrus
For one word a man is often deemed to be wise, and for one word he is often deemed to be foolish. We should be… — Confucius
Fools usually know best that which the wise despair of ever comprehending. — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
The wise man is seldom prudent. — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
A man cannot be wise enough to be a great artist without being wise enough to wish to be a philosopher. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
There is no accident so unfortunate but wise men will make some advantage of it, nor any so entirely fortunate but fools may turn it… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
It is in the half fools and the half wise that the greatest danger lies. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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