Wise Quotes

• A fool will study for twenty or thirty years and learn how to do something, but a wise man will study for twenty or thirty minutes and become an expert. In this world, it isn't ability that counts, but authority.

  

  Barry Hughart
  • World
  • Men
  • Study

• We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Future
  • Past
  • Responsibility

• Much has seen said of the wisdom of old age. Old age is wise, I grant, for itself, but not wise for the community. It is wise in declining new enterprises, for it has not the power nor the time to execute them; wise in shrinking from difficulty, for it has not the strength to overcome it; wise in avoiding danger, for it lacks the faculty of ready and swift action, by which dangers are parried and converted into advantages. But this is not wisdom for mankind at large, by whom new enterprises must be undertaken, dangers met, and difficulties surmounted.

  

  William Cullen Bryant
  • Age
  • Community
  • Action

• How do you know antiquity was foolish? How do you know the present is wise? Who made it foolish? Who made it wise?

  

  Francois Rabelais
  • Present
  • Wise

• She hoped to be wise and reasonable in time; but alas! Alas! She must confess to herself that she was not wise yet.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Time
  • Wise
  • Reasonable

• With children use force; with men reason; such is the natural order of things. The wise man requires no law.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Men
  • Children
  • Law

• Since Socrates and Plato first speculated on the nature of the human mind, serious thinkers through the ages - from Aristotle to Descartes, from Aeschylus to Strindberg and Ingmar Bergman - have thought it wise to understand oneself and one's behavior.

  

  Eric Kandel
  • Mind
  • Nature
  • Serious

• A wise reader reads the book of genius not with his heart, not so much with his brain, but with his spine. It is there that occurs the telltale tingle.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Heart
  • Book
  • Brain

• Even so; an't please your worship, Brakenbury, You may partake of any thing we say: We speak no treason, man; we say the King Is wise and virtuous, and his noble queen Well struck in years, fair, and not jealous; We say that Shore's wife hath a pretty foot, A cherry lip, a bonny eye, a passing pleasing tongue; And that the Queen's kindred are made gentlefolks.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Men
  • Wife
  • Eye

• Whatever you do in your life, try to become a kind, and wise human being.

  

  Nawang Khechog
  • Life
  • Wise
  • Try

• Attentive listening to others is important regardless of their stations and positions. Wise people consider the deep meaning and true values of all suggestions. Learning and teaching are exchanged joyfully through deep listening and mutual appreciation.

  

  Chungliang Al Huang
  • People
  • Important
  • Listening

• I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise.

  

  Charles de Montesquieu
  • World
  • Wise
  • Fool

• As Benjamin Franklin said, 'Those things that hurt, instruct.' It is for this reason that wise people learn not to dread but actually to welcome problems and actually to welcome the pain of problems.

  

  M. Scott Peck
  • People
  • Pain
  • Spiritual

• For there is no virtue, the honour and credit for which procures a man more odium from the elite than that of justice; and this, because more than any other, it acquires a man power and authority among the common people. For they only honour the valiant and admire the wise, while in addition they also love just men, and put entire trust and confidence in them.

  

  Plutarch
  • Man
  • Confidence
  • Virtue

• A wise ignorance is an essential part of knowledge.

  

  Plato
  • Knowledge
  • Wise
  • Ignorance

• No man is born wise; but wisdom and virtue require a tutor; though we can easily learn to be vicious without a master.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Men
  • Born
  • Virtue

• Special care should be taken of the health of the inhabitants, which will depend chiefly on the healthiness of the locality and of the quarter to which they are exposed, and secondly on the use of pure water; this latter point is by no means a secondary consideration. For the elements which we use the most and oftenest for the support of the body contribute most to health, and among those are water and air. Wherefore, in all wise states, if there is want of pure water, and the supply is not all equally good, the drinking water ought to be separated from that which is used for other purposes.

  

  Aristotle
  • Health
  • Water
  • Air

• Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible.

  

  Eric Hoffer
  • Good
  • Wise

• It is strange how often a heart must be broken before the years can make it wise.

  

  Sara Teasdale
  • Heart
  • Wisdom
  • Strange

• The wise find pleasure in water; the virtuous find pleasure in hills. The wise are active; the virtuous are tranquil. The wise are joyful; the virtuous are long-lived.

  

  Confucius
  • Wise
  • Hills
  • Joyful

• The why is plain as way to parish church: He that a fool doth very wisely hit Doth very foolishly, although he smart, Not to seem senseless of the bob; if not, The wise man's folly is anatomiz'd Even by the squand'ring glances of the fool.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Church
  • Smart
  • Fool

• Americans are good people, and at times we can be wise. But we're often under-informed by media, misinformed by our government and ill-served by both.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • People
  • Good
  • Americans

• A far greater glory is it to the wise to die for freedom, the love of which stands in very truth implanted in the soul like nothing else, not as a casual adjunct but an essential part of its unity, and cannot be amputated without the whole system being destroyed as a result.

  

  Philo
  • Truth
  • Soul
  • Freedom

• If you want a wise answer, ask a reasonable question.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Question
  • Wise
  • Answer

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