Wisdom Whispers: Enlightening Quotes from Across the Ages (Page 4)

"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

"In Greece wise men speak and fools decide"

George Santayana, Philosopher

"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 never loses anything, if he has himself"

Michel de Montaigne, Philosopher

"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

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

Bill Cosby, Comedian

"A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult"

John Churton Collins, Critic

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

Henry David Thoreau, Author

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

Henry David Thoreau, 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

"The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world"

Charles Caleb Colton, Writer

"Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists"

Blaise Pascal, Philosopher

"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

"The wise man... if he would live at peace with others, he will bear and forbear"

Samuel Smiles, Author

"A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win"

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Writer

"It's the height of folly to want to be the only wise one"

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Writer

"At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time"

Ovid, Poet

"Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise"

H.G. Wells, Author

"No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right"

Helen Keller, Author

"Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world"

Helen Keller, Author

"If you young fellows were wise, the devil couldn't do anything to you, but since you aren't wise, you need us who are old"

Martin Luther, Professor

"A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books"

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Poet

"A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart"

Jonathan Swift, Writer

"A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart"

Jonathan Swift, Writer

"The world is neither wise nor just, but it makes up for all its folly and injustice by being damnably sentimental"

Thomas Huxley, Scientist

"The only question which any wise man can ask himself, and which any honest man will ask himself, is whether a doctrine is true or false"

Thomas Huxley, Scientist

"Teach a child what is wise, that is morality. Teach him what is wise and beautiful, that is religion!"

Thomas Huxley, Scientist

"Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men"

Thomas Huxley, Scientist

"I am content with nothing, restless and ambitious... and I despise myself for the vanity, which formed half the stimulus to my exertions. Oh would that I were one of those plodding wise fools who having once set their hand to the plough go on nothing doubting"

Thomas Huxley, Scientist