Wise Quotes

He was a wise man who originated the idea of God.

Job's avoidance of rebellion against God has nothing to do with God being good or wise or anything like that; it's strictly because God is so powerful, and you don't fight something when you are so much weaker than that which you would fight.

We can learn much from wise words, little from wisecracks, and less from wise guys.

The wise become as the unwise in the enchanted chambers of Power, whose lamps make every face the same colour.

Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay.

It's easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.

There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself; in no wise hath she need of an author.

He that will write well in any tongue, must follow this counsel of Aristotle, to speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do: and so should every man understand him, and the judgment of wise men allow him.

I look forward to growing old and wise and audacious.

Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.

I want to state upfront, unequivocally and without doubt: I do not believe that any racial, ethnic or gender group has an advantage in sound judging. I do believe that every person has an equal opportunity to be a good and wise judge, regardless of their background or life experiences.

It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and say the opposite.

The wise make proverbs, and fools repeat them.

A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses.

That's what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he's wise.

A wise man should so write (though in words understood by all men) that wise men only should be able to commend him.

A wise man fights to win, but he is twice a fool who has no plan for possible defeat.

Even a fool knows you can't touch the stars, but it won't keep the wise from trying.

Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men?

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

Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.

I wish I had the ability to crack wise, generally. You know, without getting punched. There's no way I could do it while getting beaten up. Definitely.

We may simply not be wise enough to do some of the kinds of engineering things that people are talking about doing.

A wise woman recognizes when her life is out of balance and summons the courage to act to correct it, she knows the meaning of true generosity, happiness is the reward for a life lived in harmony, with a courage and grace.

To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution.

The weak have remedies, the wise have joys; superior wisdom is superior bliss.

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

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

Speech was given to the ordinary sort or men, whereby to communicate their mind; but to wise men, whereby to conceal it.

Wise it is to comprehend the whole.