More Wise Sayings And Quotes

by allinspiration.com

“Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know – and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance.”
– Isaac Asimov

“Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship.”
– James Russell Lowell

“The Supreme Court has ruled that they cannot have a nativity scene in Washington, D.C. This wasn’t for any religious reasons. They couldn’t find three wise men and a virgin.”
– Jay Leno

“A smart man only believes half of what he hears, a wise man knows which half.”
– Jeff Cooper

“Don’t follow any advice, no matter how good, until you feel as deeply in your spirit as you think in your mind that the counsel is wise.”
– Joan Rivers

“Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.”
– Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

“Divide and rule, the politician cries; unite and lead, is watchword of the wise.”
– Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

“If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.”
– Joseph Addison

“Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished from the public councils, because they dare to be honest, and the profligate are rewarded, because they flatter the people, in order to betray them.”
– Joseph Story

“The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.”
– Khalil Gibran

“He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.”
– Lao Tzu

“For the wise man looks into space and he knows there is no limited dimensions.”
– Lao Tzu

“The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.”
– Lao Tzu

“In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it – thou art a fool.”
– Lord Chesterfield

“A wise man fights to win, but he is twice a fool who has no plan for possible defeat.”
– Louis L’Amour

“Christmas in Bethlehem. The ancient dream: a cold, clear night made brilliant by a glorious star, the smell of incense, shepherds and wise men falling to their knees in adoration of the sweet baby, the incarnation of perfect love.”
– Lucinda Franks

“Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.”
– Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant.”
– Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“No man was ever wise by chance.”
– Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“There is no man, however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived in a way the consciousness of which is so unpleasant to him in later life that he would gladly, if he could, expunge it from his memory.”
– Marcel Proust

“The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.”
– Marcus Tullius Cicero

“I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had.”
– Margaret Mead

“If you young fellows were wise, the devil couldn’t do anything to you, but since you aren’t wise, you need us who are old.”
– Martin Luther

“He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself at twenty.”
– Mary Wilson Little

“A beautiful woman delights the eye; a wise woman, the understanding; a pure one, the soul.”
– Minna Antrim

“A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.”
– Moliere

“A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.”
– Jonathan Swift

“Study how water flows in a valley stream, smoothly and freely between the rocks. Also learn from holy books and wise people. Everything – even mountains, rivers, plants and trees – should be your teacher.”
– Morihei Ueshiba

“Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent.”
– Napoleon Hill

“The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.”
– Niccolo Machiavelli

Pages: 1 2 3 4 5

Follow this site