Wise Quotes

I am honoured to join education innovators like Ms. Vicky Colbert, Dr. Madhav Chavan, and Sir Fazle Hasan Abed as the fourth WISE Prize for Education Laureate. I accept this prize on behalf of the million girls Camfed is committed to supporting through secondary education.

Ann Cotton
- Education
- Wise
The disadvantage of becoming wise is that you realize how foolish you've been.

Evan Esar

Men become wise just as they become rich, more by what they save than by what they receive.

Wilbur Wright
- Rich
- Save
- Receive
The wise are not learned, the learned are not wise.

Lao Tzu
- Wise
- Learned
There is no one thoroughly despicable. We cannot descend much lower than an idiot; and an idiot has some advantages over a wise man.

William Hazlitt
- Men
- Advantage
- Idiot
There is no man ... however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived a life, the memory of which is so unpleasant to him that he would gladly expunge it. And yet he ought not entirely to regret it, because he cannot be certain that he has indeed become a wise man -- so far as it is possible for any of us to be wise -- unless he has passed through all the fatuous or unwholesome incarnations by which that ultimate stage must be preceded.

Marcel Proust
- Regret
- Stage
- Memory
Of all the paths a man could strike into, there is, at any given moment, a best path .. A thing which, here and now, it were of all things wisest for him to do .. To find this path, and walk in it, is the one thing needful for him.

Thomas Carlyle
- Wise
- Strike
- Needful
The worst thing you can do is animate something, and then throw it out because it doesn't work, story wise.

Nicholas Stoller
- Wise
- Stories
- Worst