Wise Quotes

The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love.

The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.

Clever people master life; the wise illuminate it and create fresh difficulties.

Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.

A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn.

We must first pray, that God would make us wise; before we can wish, he would make us happy.

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.

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.