Wise Quotes

The good and the wise lead quiet lives.

Euripides

It's guid to be merry and wise, It's guid to be honest and true, It's guid to support Caledonia's cause And bide by the buff and the blue.

Robert Burns

A fool will seek revenge, the wise man will allow God's karma.

Keshia Chante

There are more fools than wise men, and even in a wise man there is more folly than wisdom.

Nicolas Chamfort

The spirit of rebellion is present in every great city, and the great task of wise government is to keep it dormant, for if it wakes it is a torrent which no dam can hold back.

Giacomo Casanova

A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish man despiseth his mother.

Bible

Nothing is more unworthy of a wise man, or ought to trouble him more, than to have allowed more time for trifling, and useless things, than they deserved.

Plato

A foolish man tells a woman to stop talking, but a wise man tells her that her mouth is extremely beautiful when her lips are closed.

Unknown

Impatience can cause wise people to do foolish things.

Janette Oke

The believer is happy; the doubter is wise.

Hungarian Proverb

Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wiseas priests, prophets or philosophers are wise. Specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine.

Allan David Bloom

Legislation can neither be wise nor just which seeks the welfare of a single interest at the expense and to the injury of many and varied interests.

Andrew Johnson

Wait, then, my soul! submissive wait, Prostrate before His awful seat; And "mid the terrors of His rod, Trust in a wise and gracious God!

Richard Henry Beddome

Pilgrimage to the place of the wise is to escape the flame of separation from Nature.

Old Sufi saying

Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen.

John Muir
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