Wise Quotes at FixQuotes

"The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook"

William James, Philosopher

"A wise man learns by the mistakes of others, a fool by his own"

Latin Proverb

"No man was ever wise by chance"

Seneca, Philosopher

"By associating with wise people you will become wise yourself"

Menander, Poet

"It's easier to be wise for others than for ourselves"

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Writer

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

Thomas Fuller, Clergyman

"Though lust do masque in ne'er so strange disguise she's oft found witty, but is never wise"

John Webster, Playwright

"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"

Dwight D. Eisenhower, President

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

William Blake, Poet

"A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends"

Baltasar Gracian, Philosopher

"The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future"

Herbert Spencer, Philosopher

"Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life"

Plautus, Playwright

"It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods"

H. L. Mencken, Writer

"No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight"

H. L. Mencken, Writer

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

H. L. Mencken, Writer

"Wise thinkers prevail everywhere"

Sophocles, Author

"A wise doctor does not mutter incantations over a sore that needs the knife"

Sophocles, Author

"A wise man does not chatter with one whose mind is sick"

Sophocles, Author

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

Cicero, Philosopher

"Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise"

William Shakespeare, Dramatist

"Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course"

William Shakespeare, Dramatist

"It is a wise father that knows his own child"

William Shakespeare, Dramatist

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

William Shakespeare, Dramatist

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

Publilius Syrus, Poet

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

Epictetus, Philosopher

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

Epictetus, Philosopher

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

Epictetus, Philosopher

"A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circlue of our felicities"

Thomas Jefferson, President

"Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed"

Edward Young, Poet

"Wise it is to comprehend the whole"

Edward Young, Poet

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

Benjamin Franklin, Politician

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

Benjamin Franklin, Politician

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

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer

"If you realize you aren't so wise today as you thought you were yesterday, you're wiser today"

Olin Miller, Writer

"The good and the wise lead quiet lives"

Euripides, Poet

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

Euripides, Poet

"The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man"

Euripides, Poet

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

Euripides, Poet

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

Thomas Fuller, Clergyman

"The fool wanders, a wise man travels"

Thomas Fuller, Clergyman

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