Wise Quotes

The fool wanders, a wise man travels.

Thomas Fuller

It is a wise thing to be polite; consequently, it is a stupid thing to be rude. To make enemies by unnecessary and willful incivility, is just as insane a proceeding as to set your house on fire. For politeness is like a counter--an avowedly false coin, with which it is foolish to be stingy.

Arthur Schopenhauer

It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.

Colette

At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time.

Ovid

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.

Seneca

To understand reality is not the same as to know about outward events. It is to perceive the essential nature of things. The best-informed man is not necessarily the wisest. Indeed there is a danger that precisely in the multiplicity of his knowledge he will lose sight of what is essential. But on the other hand, knowledge of an apparently trivial detail quite often makes it possible to see into the depth of things. And so the wise man will seek to acquire the best possible knowledge about events, but always without becoming dependent upon this knowledge. To recognize the.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished from the public councils, because they dare to be honest, and the profligate are rewarded, because they flatter the people in order to betray them.

Joseph Story

Who combats bravely is not therefore brave, He dreads a death-bed like the meanest slave: Who reasons wisely is not therefore wise, - His pride in reasoning, not in acting lies

Alexander Pope

How I wish that somewhere there existed an island for those who are wise and of good will.

Albert Einstein

No wise man ever thought that a traitor should be trusted.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good

H.L. Mencken

Water is the only drink for a wise man.

Henry David Thoreau

From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.

Publilius Syrus

Life is given for wisdom, and yet we are not wise; for goodness, and we are not good; for overcoming evil, and evil remains; for patience and sympathy and love, and yet we are fretful and hard and weak and selfish. We are keyed not to attainment, but to the struggle toward it.

T. T. Munger

Adversity and loss make a man wise

Welsh Proverb
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