Wisdom Whispers: Enlightening Quotes from Across the Ages (Page 2)

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

"Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance"

Isaac Asimov, Scientist

"Begin, be bold and venture to be wise"

Horace, Poet

"Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship"

James Russell Lowell, Poet

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

Baltasar Gracian, Philosopher

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

Epicurus, Philosopher

"The conqueror is regarded with awe; the wise man commands our respect; but it is only the benevolent man that wins our affection"

William Dean Howells, Author

"A word to the wise is infuriating"

Hunter S. Thompson, Journalist

"I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in either of them: Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden"

Saint Augustine, Saint

"A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times"

Lord Acton, Historian

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

Jean de La Fontaine, Poet

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

Jean de La Fontaine, Poet

"Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools"

Thomas Hobbes, Philosopher

"I'm not wise, but the beginning of wisdom is there; it's like relaxing into - and an acceptance of - things"

Tina Turner, Musician

"A man only becomes wise when he begins to calculate the approximate depth of his ignorance"

Gian Carlo Menotti, Composer

"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 a wise man that does know the contented man is never poor, whilst the discontented man is never rich"

Frank Herbert, Writer

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

Douglas Bader, Soldier

"A wise man will live as much within his wit as within his income"

Lord Chesterfield, Statesman

"Be happy. It's one way of being wise"

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette, Novelist

"The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself, he becomes wise"

Alden Nowlan, Poet

"Who is the wise man? He who sees what's going to be born"

King Solomon, Royalty

"The wise man knows how to run his life so that contemplation is Possible"

Gabriel Marcel, Philosopher

"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

"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

"The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves"

Oscar Wilde, Dramatist

"The fool wanders, a wise man travels"

Thomas Fuller, Clergyman

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

Benjamin Franklin, Politician

"For the wise man looks into space and he knows there is no limited dimensions"

Lao Tzu, Author

"Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth"

Voltaire, Writer

"Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?"

Voltaire, Writer

"Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience"

George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist

"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

"It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life"

Victor Hugo, Author

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