Wise Quotes
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I think that the love of the really happy husband and wife—not purged of passion, but with passion heated to a white heat of intensity and purity and tenderness and consideration, and with many another feeling added thereto—is the loftiest and most ennobling influence that comes into the life of any man or woman, even loftier and more ennobling than the wise and tender love for children.
Edmund Morris
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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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So, with their usual sense of justice, ladies argue that because a woman is handsome, therefore she is a fool. O ladies, ladies! there are some of you who are neither handsome nor wise.
William Makepeace Thackeray
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Nature is always wise in every part.
Edward Thurlow, 1st Baron Thurlow
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Where wise actions are the fruit of life, wise discourse is the pollination.
Bryant H. McGill
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Education does not necessarily make one wise?
Benjamin Carson
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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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Time can but make it easier to be wise / Though now it seems impossible, and so / All that you need is patience.
William Butler Yeats
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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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Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away.
Arthur Helps
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As the art of reading (after a certain stage in one's education) isthe art of skipping, so the art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
William James
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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
