Wise Quotes

If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.

Joseph Addison

The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.

Thomas Szasz

The fool's mind wanders, the wise mind wonders.

Patrick J. Mills

He who lives without folly isn’t so wise as he thinks.

FranÁois de La Rochefoucauld

A fool despises good counsel, but a wise man takes it to heart.

Kong Fuzi

The wise make proverbs, and fools repeat them.

Isaac Disraeli

A wise man turns chance into good fortune.

Thomas Fuller

Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise.

Cato the Elder

Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing

Alexander Pope

A wise man fights to win, but he is twice a fool who has no plan for possible defeat.

Louis L'Amour

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

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

Henry Mencken

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

Adversity and loss make a man wise

Welsh Proverb