Wise Quotes

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.

A smart man makes a mistake, learns from it, and never makes that mistake again. But a wise man finds a smart man and learns from him how to avoid the mistake altogether.

It's been very nice. I haven't gotten out too much because we've been working a lot but other wise the people have been very nice and I've had a good time.

Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough.

The fact is that not only do people get more wise and more conservative as they get older, they get more kind and more generous, too.

Every wise, just, and mild government, by rendering the condition of its subjects easy and secure, will always abound most in people, as well as in commodities and riches.

It takes a wise man to handle a lie, a fool had better remain honest.

Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.

The seven wise men of Greece, so famous for their wisdom all the world over, acquired all that fame, each of them, by a single sentence consisting of two or three words.

A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion.

A little too wise, they say, do ne'er live long.

It is impossible to love and to be wise.

Be wisely worldly, but not worldly wise.

I resolved to stop accumulating and begin the infinitely more serious and difficult task of wise distribution.