Wise Quotes
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To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
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I had now-not for the first time, nor the thousandth-trampled upon an old and wise and stern maxim of mine, to wit: 'Supposing is good, but finding out is better.'
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What should a wise person do when given a blow? Same as Cato when he was attacked; not fire up or revenge the insult., or even return the blow, but simply ignore it.
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In any future great national trial, compared with the men of this, we shall have as weak, and as strong; as silly and as wise; asbad and good.
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From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.
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Reading books everyone died, none became any wise.
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All places that the eye of heaven visits Are to a wise man ports and happy havens. Teach thy necessity to reason thus; There is no virtue like necessity.
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No one in my family had ever done anything acting-wise or entertainment industry-wise.
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Religion either makes men wise and virtuous, or it makes them set up false pretenses to both.
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The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool.
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Over the years they both reached the same wise conclusion by different paths: it was not possible to live together in any other way, or love in any other way, and nothing in this world was more difficult than love.
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For the wise men of old the cardinal problem had been how to conform the soul to reality. For magic and applied science alike the problem is how to subdue reality to the wishes of men.
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The road, lyric-wise, is a trap, and a bore. Maybe it's interesting to me, but I don't think it's a connecting thing with other humans. What is there to write about? Truck stops, hotels, clubs?
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So wise so young, they say, do never live long.
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It is not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.
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I am really sorry to see my countrymen trouble themselves about politics. If men were wise, the most arbitrary princes could not hurt them. If they are not wise, the freest government is compelled to be a tyranny. Princes appear to me to be fools. Houses of Commons and Houses of Lords appear to me to be fools; they seem to me to be something else besides human life.
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To be smart, spend carefully. To be wise, save regularly. To be genius, give extravagantly.
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To fear death, gentlemen, is no other then to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know.
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The wise man is satisfied with nothing.
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In the wise words of Mahatma Gandhi: have a sense of humor.
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Indeed, I am very sorry to be right in this instance. I would much rather have been merry than wise.
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I shall take my present leave - but not without resorting once more to the benign Parent of the Human Race in humble supplication [prayer] that since he has been pleased to favour the American people, with opportunities for deliberating in perfect tranquility, and dispositions for deciding with unparellelled unanimity on a form of Government, for the security of their Union, and the advancement of their happiness; so his divine blessing may be equally conspicuous in the enlarged views, the temperate consultations, and the wise measures on which the success of this Government must depend.
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Confidence gives a fool the advantage over a wise man.
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The wise expect nothing, hope for nothing, thus avoiding all disappointment and anxiety.
