Wise Quotes

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.

There is no man, however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived in a way the consciousness of which is so unpleasant to him in later life that he would gladly, if he could, expunge it from his memory.

Where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise.

The man who has sufficient power over himself to wait until his nature has recovered its even balance is the truly wise man, but such beings are seldom met with.

It takes a wise man to recognize a wise man.

Our lady the Common Law is a very wise old lady though she still has something to learn in telling what she knows.

True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance.

No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.

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.

Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.

The government would also be wise to press on with its further measures to promote growth, as it will want to outperform the low figures in this outlook. This will mean delivering measures to ease money and credit and to stimulate demand.

Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.

Some deemed him wondrous wise, and some believed him mad.

Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons.

To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.

The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

For since the fabric of the universe is most perfect and the work of a most wise Creator, nothing at all takes place in the universe in which some rule of maximum or minimum does not appear.

When I can look life in the eyes, grown calm and very coldly wise, life will have given me the truth, and taken in exchange - my youth.