Wisdom Whispers: Enlightening Quotes from Across the Ages (Page 3)

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

Victor Hugo, Author

"The wise man does not grow old, but ripens"

Victor Hugo, Author

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

Cicero, Philosopher

"A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds"

Francis Bacon, Philosopher

"Wise men make more opportunities than they find"

Francis Bacon, Philosopher

"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

"The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life - knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live"

Aristotle, Philosopher

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

Ambrose Bierce, Journalist

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

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something"

Plato, Philosopher

"The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men"

Plato, Philosopher

"Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand"

Plato, Philosopher

"Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods"

Plato, 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

"Controversy equalizes fools and wise men - and the fools know it"

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Poet

"Wise it is to comprehend the whole"

Edward Young, Poet

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

Winston Churchill, Statesman

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

Winston Churchill, Statesman

"We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom"

Michel de Montaigne, Philosopher

"Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky"

Michel de Montaigne, Philosopher

"A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can"

Michel de Montaigne, Philosopher

"A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself"

Michel de Montaigne, Philosopher

"I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

"In Greece wise men speak and fools decide"

George Santayana, Philosopher

"All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

"A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult"

John Churton Collins, Critic

"A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

"They would need to be already wise, in order to love wisdom"

Friedrich Schiller, Dramatist

"It is often wise to reveal that which cannot be concealed for long"

Friedrich Schiller, Dramatist

"Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"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"

Thomas Carlyle, Writer