Wise Quotes
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Wisdom is not mathematical, nor astronomical, nor zoological; when it talks too much of any one thing it ceases to be itself. There are wise physicists, but wisdom is not physical; there are wise physicians, but wisdom is not medical.
George Sarton
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Socrates argued that only God can be a sophist, only God can be truly wise.
Bettany Hughes
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If you expect the wise man to be as angry as the baseness of crimes requires, then he must not only be angry but go insane.
Seneca the Younger
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We have very little evidence to suggest that serious intellectuals converted to the Christian faith between the time of Paul and the mid-second century.
Most converts would have been lower-class and uneducated.
This was certainly true in Paul’s own day. In a letter to one of his largest congregations, he explicitly reminds the Corinthians about their own constituency: “Consider your calling, brothers and sisters: Not many of you were wise...
Bart Ehrman
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Zeal is fit for wise men, but flourishes chiefly among fools.
John Tillotson
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Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise.
Cato the Elder
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Heaven is for thee too high To know what passes there; be lowly wise. Think only what concerns thee and thy being; Dream not of other worlds, what creatures there Live, in what state, condition, or degree, Contented that thus far hath been revealed.
John Milton
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I think people discredit teenagers and how wise they can be. Sometimes I meet teenagers who are much wiser than many adults I've met, because they haven't let any insecurities or doubts about themselves get in the way of their thoughts.
Amandla Stenberg
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Speak not at all, in any wise, till you have somewhat to speak; care not for the reward of your speaking, but simply and with undivided mind for the truth of your speaking.
Thomas Carlyle
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There are more fools than wise men, and even in a wise man there is more folly than wisdom.
Sébastien-Roch Nicolas
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No man can be wise on an empty stomach.
George Eliot
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She didn't feel thirty. But then again again, what was being thirty supposed to feel like? When she was younger, thirty seemed so far away, she thought that a woman of that age would be so wise and knowledgeable, so settled in her life with a husband and children and a career. She had none of those things. She still felt as clueless as she had felt when she was twenty, only with a few more gray hairs and crow's feet around her eyes.
Cecelia Ahern
