Being wise Quote by Giacomo Leopardi

The wise don't expect to find life worth living; they make it that way.

— Anonymous

The philosopher's conception of things will, above all, be truer than other men's, and his philosophy will subordinate all the circumstances of life. To…

— Henry David Thoreau

The wise man realistically accepts as part of life and builds a philosophy to meet them and make the most of them. He lives…

— Bill Vaughan

One may almost doubt if the wisest man has learned anything of absolute value by living.

— Henry David Thoreau

A man cannot be wise enough to be a great artist without being wise enough to wish to be a philosopher.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

A wise man poor Is like a sacred book that's never read, - To himself he lives, and to all else seems dead

— Thomas Dekker

That man is wisest who, like Socrates, realizes that his wisdom is worthless

— Plato

The wisest of you men is he who has realized, like Socrates, that in respect of wisdom he is really worthless.

— Plato

The savage lives simply through ignorance and idleness or laziness, but the philosopher lives simply through wisdom.

— Henry David Thoreau

Everyone should have a philosophy for living better.

— Compay Segundo

Thus, I blush to add, you can not be a philosopher and a good man, though you may be a philosopher and a great…

— George Bernard Shaw

Too many wish to be happy before becoming wise.

— Anonymous