Wise Quotes

The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool.

Your dear baby has died innocent and blameless, and has been called away by an all wise and merciful Creator, most probably from a life to misery and misfortune, and most certainly to one of happiness and bliss.

The one knowing what is profitable, and not the man knowing many things, is wise.

Man is wise and constantly in quest of more wisdom; but the ultimate wisdom, which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls forth faith rather than reason.

Who then is free? The wise man who can command himself.

Conservation means the wise use of the earth and its resources for the lasting good of men.

It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.

The only competition worthy of a wise man is with himself.

You ask: what is the meaning or purpose of life? I can only answer with another question: do you think we are wise enough to read God's mind?

The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.

It is often wise to reveal that which cannot be concealed for long.

Teach a child what is wise, that is morality. Teach him what is wise and beautiful, that is religion!

The wise man is he who knows the relative value of things.

Some wisdom you must learn from one who's wise.

Women are not so well united as to form an Insurrection. They are for the most part wise enough to love their Chains, and to discern how becomingly they fit.

The American people may not be the best-educated, but they're very wise at heart.

For if the mystery concealed of old is made manifest to the Apostles through the prophetic writings, and if the prophets, being wise men, understood what proceeded from their own mouths, then the prophets knew what was made manifest to the Apostles.

Cabbage: a familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head.

A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men.

The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.

Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise... specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine.

A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times.

The modern horror audience is wise to our tricks this lets it in on the gag.

Wise to resolve, and patient to perform.

Dogs are wise. They crawl away into a quiet corner and lick their wounds and do not rejoin the world until they are whole once more.

The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself, he becomes wise.

Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent.

I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in either of them: Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden.

Care more than others think wise.

A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.