Wise Quotes

Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise.

A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.

It is a wise father that knows his own child.

It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look further than you can see.

When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.

It is wise to keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.

Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.

Wise men make more opportunities than they find.

It is impossible to love and to be wise.

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men.

Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.

Cabbage: a familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head.

The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise.

A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.

To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.

It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents.

It is a wise man who knows where courage ends and stupidity begins.

Since, therefore, no man is born without faults, and he is esteemed the best whose errors are the least, let the wise man consider everything human as connected with himself; for in worldly affairs there is no perfect happiness under heaven.

To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself.

Do not reveal what you have thought upon doing, but by wise council keep it secret being determined to carry it into execution.

The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.

O wise man! Give your wealth only to the worthy and never to others. The water of the sea received by the clouds is always sweet.

So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.

The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.

The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love.

A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones that need the advice.

The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.

The wise make proverbs, and fools repeat them.

The wise are above books.

Every man is wise when attacked by a mad dog; fewer when pursued by a mad woman; only the wisest survive when attacked by a mad notion.

Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons.

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.

The fool wonders, the wise man asks.

I know as a critic I'm required to have a well-armored heart. I must be a cynical wise guy to show my great sophistication. No pushover, me.

Perhaps I am not as wise as I like to think I am.

Oh leave the Wise our measures to collate. One thing at least is certain, light has weight. One thing is certain and the rest debate. Light rays, when near the Sun, do not go straight.

That is a good question for you to ask, not a wise question for me to answer.

Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.

That's what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he's wise.

It's not wise to violate rules until you know how to observe them.

But I think I have done right to save the vision in this way, even though I may die sooner because I did it; for I know the meaning of the vision is wise and beautiful and good; and you can see that I am only a pitiful old man after all.

The wise musicians are those who play what they can master.

There has never been any country at every moment so virtuous and so wise that it has not sometimes needed to be saved from itself.

The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forbearing.

He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.

It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.

The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool.

Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life.

He was a wise man who originated the idea of God.

The good and the wise lead quiet lives.

Some wisdom you must learn from one who's wise.

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.

The truth is that since the first book, I have wanted to emulate Benjamin Franklin and put together a healthy, wealthy and wise trilogy and so healthy was 'The 4-Hour Body,' wealthy was 'The 4-Hour Workweek' and then wise is 'The 4-Hour Chef.'

My idea is always to reach my generation. The wise writer writes for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmasters of ever afterward.

Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

Nothing is as dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is to be preferred.

Thinking well to be wise: planning well, wiser: doing well wisest and best of all.

The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself a fool.

Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.

Life's Tragedy is that we get old to soon and wise too late.

Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.

Travel makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.

A wise man turns chance into good fortune.

The fool wanders, a wise man travels.

A fool's paradise is a wise man's hell!

A wise man's question contains half the answer.

Kings may be judges of the earth, but wise men are the judges of kings.

Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.

A wise parent humors the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and advisor when his absolute rule shall cease.

Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.

Divide and rule, the politician cries; unite and lead, is watchword of the wise.

Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance.

Luck can be assisted. It is not all chance with the wise.