Wise Quotes

My upbringing is why I am the person I am today. I have very wise parents.

To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself.

It's the height of folly to want to be the only wise one.

The mobilisation which Bush has been able to perform since 11 September 2001 has to be fought - at least by Americans - in the name of a wise, honourable and democratic patriotism.

At Athens, wise men propose, and fools dispose.

The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions.

Every human being has, like Socrates, an attendant spirit; and wise are they who obey its signals. If it does not always tell us what to do, it always cautions us what not to do.

Though lust do masque in ne'er so strange disguise she's oft found witty, but is never wise.

I do believe that every person has an equal opportunity to be a good and wise judge regardless of their background or life experiences.

Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.

I think you have a moral responsibility when you've been given far more than you need, to do wise things with it and give intelligently.

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

The wise man does not grow old, but ripens.

The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

When complaints are freely heard, deeply considered and speedily reformed, then is the utmost bound of civil liberty attained that wise men look for.

You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.

Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.

A wise man's question contains half the answer.

Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.

The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.

Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart.

Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.

You must be wise, but not too wise.

A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.

A wise traveler never depreciates their own country.

Kings may be judges of the earth, but wise men are the judges of kings.

Wise are they who have learned these truths: Trouble is temporary. Time is tonic. Tribulation is a test tube.

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.

Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

There are men who think themselves too wise to be religious.