Wise Quotes

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

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

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

A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses.

Hippocrates

Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.

Benjamin Franklin

Adversity and loss make a man wise

Welsh Proverb

It is not expedient or wise to examine our friends too closely; few persons are raised in our esteem by a close examination.

Unknown

Wonder is retained by wise pondering.

Ravi Zacharias

Wise men put their trust in ideas and not in circumstances

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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.

Heinrich Heine

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

Albert Einstein

He is a fool who cannot be angry; but he is a wise man who will not.

Seneca

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

Francis Bacon

We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.

George Bernard Shaw

Experience makes more timid men than it does wise ones.

Josh Billings

When an argument flares up, the wise man quenches it with silence.

Unknown

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations.

William Feather

Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction and skillful execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives.

William A. Foster