More Wise Sayings And Quotes

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“The wise musicians are those who play what they can master.”
– Duke Ellington

“Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.”
– Dwight D. Eisenhower

“The man who can keep a secret may be wise, but he is not half as wise as the man with no secrets to keep.”
– E. W. Howe

“I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active – not more happy – nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.”
– Edgar Allan Poe

“Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others.”
– Edward Abbey

“A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.”
– Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

“He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.”
– Epictetus

“It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.”
– Epictetus

“The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man.”
– Euripides

“It is impossible to love and to be wise.”
– Francis Bacon

“A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.”
– Francis Bacon

“It’s the height of folly to want to be the only wise one.”
– Francois De La Rochefoucauld

“Women desire six things: They want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous, obedient to wife, and lively in bed.”
– Geoffrey Chaucer

“We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“He that is not handsome at 20, nor strong at 30, nor rich at 40, nor wise at 50, will never be handsome, strong, rich or wise.”
– George Herbert

“Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.”
– George Santayana

“Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the rest is in the hands of God.”
– George Washington

“A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion.”
– Grantland Rice

“Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.”
– H. G. Wells

“It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods.”
– H. L. Mencken

“I have not been that wise. Health I have taken for granted. Love I have demanded, perhaps too much and too often. As for money, I have only realized its true worth when I didn’t have it.”
– Hedy Lamarr

“Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.”
– Helen Keller

“A wise woman puts a grain of sugar into everything she says to a man, and takes a grain of salt with everything he says to her.”
– Helen Rowland

“All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.”
– Henry David Thoreau

“I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born.”
– Henry David Thoreau

“No man is great enough or wise enough for any of us to surrender our destiny to. The only way in which anyone can lead us is to restore to us the belief in our own guidance.”
– Henry Miller

“A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.”
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses.”
– Hippocrates

“No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.”
– Hunter S. Thompson

“A word to the wise is infuriating.”
– Hunter S. Thompson

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