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Wise Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- The foolish man wonders at the unusual, but the wise man at the usual.
- I would have the studies elective. Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge. The wise instructor…
- We prize books, and they prize them most who are themselves wise.
- The wise man, the true friend, the finished character, we seek everywhere, and only find in fragments.
- A cultivated man, wise to know and bold to perform, is the end to which nature works.
- The wise man always throws himself on the side of his assailants. It is more his interest than it is theirs to find his weak…
- Wise men are not wise at all times.
- Life is a festival only to the wise.
- Let us be poised, wise and our own today.
- We live in succession, in division, in parts, in particles. Meantime within man is the soul of the whole; the wise silence; the universal beauty,…
- 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…
- Wise men are not wise at all hours, and will speak five times from their taste or their humor, to once from their reason.
- History no longer shall be a dull book. It shall walk incarnate in every just and wise man. You shall not tell me by language…
- The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.
- Wisdom is like electricity. There is no permanently wise man, but men capable of wisdom, who, being put into certain company, or other favorable conditions,…
- The wise know that foolish legislation is a rope of sand, which perishes in the twisting.
- If you are wise, you will dread a prosperity which only loads you with more.
- Go where he will, the wise man is at home, His hearth the earth, his hall the azure dome.
- THE POET A moody child and wildly wise Pursued the game with joyful eyes, Which chose, like meteors, their way, And rived the dark with…
- The unstable estimates of men crowd to him whose mind is filled with a truth, as the heaped waves of the Atlantic follow the moon.
More Wise Quotes
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain. — Aristotle
- The gods too are fond of a joke. — Aristotle
- The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he… — Aristotle
- We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner… — Aristotle
- A wise person decides slowly but abides by these decisions. — Arthur Ashe
- Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. — Isaac Asimov
- Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge,… — Isaac Asimov