Wise Quotes
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Nobody's safe, humor wise.
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Be not with honor's gilded baits beguil'd, Nor think ambition wise, because 'tis brave; For though we like it, as a forward child, 'Tis so unsound, her cradle is the grave.
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Yes, if the life and death of Socrates are those of a wise man, the life and death of Jesus are those of a god.
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The wise man lacked nothing but needed a great number of things, whereas the fool, on the other hand, needs nothing (for he does not know how to use anything) but lacks everything.
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Why does Samuel Butler say, 'Wise men never say what they think of women'? Wise men never say anything else apparently.
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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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If happiness in self-content is placed, The wise are wretched, and fools only blessed.
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We are not meant to stay wounded. We are supposed to move through our tragedies and challenges and to help each other move through the many painful episodes of our lives. By remaining stuck in the power of our wounds, we block our own transformation. We overlook the greater gifts inherent in our wounds - the strength to overcome them and the lessons that we are meant to receive through them. Wounds are the means through which we enter the hearts of other people. They are meant to teach us to become compassionate and wise.
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To please the many is to displease the wise.
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Education does not necessarily make one wise?
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It's a wise man who understands that every day is a new beginning, because boy, how many mistakes do you make in a day? I don't know about you, but I make plenty. You can't turn the clock back, so you have to look ahead.
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The wise man seeks little joys, knowing that life is long and that his quota of great joys is distinctly limited.
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Where wise actions are the fruit of life, wise discourse is the pollination.
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...now...that I am a wise person. As for me, I wish there were some more of us in the world, for I find it lonesome.
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To be angry about trifles is mean and childish; to rage and be furious is brutish; and to maintain perpetual wrath is akin to the practice and temper of devils; but to prevent and suppress rising resentment is wise and glorious, is manly and divine.
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In common discourse we denominate persons and things according to the major part of their character; he is to be called a wise man who has but few follies.
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A dead father's counsel, a wise son heedeth.
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The fool inherits, but the wise must get.
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The man who knows when not to act is wise. To my mind bravery if forethought.
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O lovely chance, what can I doTo give my gratefulness to you?You rise between myself and meWith a wise persistency;I would have broken body and soul,But by your grace, still I am whole.
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If a man is both wise and lucky, he will not make the same mistake twice. But he will make any one of ten thousand brothers or cousins of the original.
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Be cold, sober, wise, circumspect. Keep yourself low by the ground avoiding high questions. Expound the Law truly and open the veil of Moses to condemn all flesh and prove all men sinners, and set at broach the mercy of our Lord Jesus, and let wounded consciences drink of Him.
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Make men wise, and by that very operation you make them free. Civil liberty follows as a consequence of this; no usurped power can stand against the artillery of opinion.
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Advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill.
