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

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

"Those who gave thee a body, furnished it with weakness; but He who gave thee Soul, armed thee with resolution. Employ it, and thou art wise; be wise and thou art happy"

Akhenaton, Statesman

"A wise man writes down what he thinks, a stupid man forgets what he thinks, a complete idiot punishes himself for what he thinks"

Jason Zebehazy, Businessman

"The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions"

Claude Levi-Strauss, Scientist

"A wise king knows when to speak and when to listen"

Philip IV, Royalty

"Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life"

Aristophanes, Poet

"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

"The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love"

Theodor Reik, Psychologist

"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

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

Lao Tzu, Author

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

Oscar Wilde, Dramatist

"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

"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

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

Benjamin Franklin, Politician

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

George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist

"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

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

Victor Hugo, Author

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

Cicero, 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

"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

"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

"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

"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

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