Wisdom Whispers: Enlightening Quotes from Across the Ages (Page 5)

"The way to get on in the world is to be neither more nor less wise, neither better nor worse than your neighbours"

"That which is not, shall never be; that which is, shall never cease to be. To the wise, these truths are self-evident"

"There is no one thoroughly despicable. We cannot descend much lower than an idiot; and an idiot has some advantages over a wise man"

William Hazlitt, Critic

"Knowledge is the treasure of a wise man"

William Penn, Leader

"To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men"

Edmund Burke, Statesman

"It takes a wise man to handle a lie, a fool had better remain honest"

Norman Douglas, Writer

"A vain man finds it wise to speak good or ill of himself; a modest man does not talk of himself"

Jean de la Bruyere, Philosopher

"My idea is always to reach my generation. The wise writer writes for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmasters of ever afterward"

F. Scott Fitzgerald, Author

"And, hey, I'm not under the illusion that everything's just going to be hunky-dory work wise forever. I've never been under that illusion. Things could go away tomorrow"

Mel Gibson, Actor

"It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents"

Samuel Butler, Poet

"That's what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he's wise"

George Eliot, Author

"The wisest of the wise may err"

Aeschylus, Playwright

"The one knowing what is profitable, and not the man knowing many things, is wise"

Aeschylus, Playwright

"Search well and be wise, nor believe that self-willed pride will ever be better than good counsel"

Aeschylus, Playwright

"For this is the mark of a wise and upright man, not to rail against the gods in misfortune"

Aeschylus, Playwright

"It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish"

Aeschylus, Playwright

"Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people"

William Butler Yeats, Poet

"Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time"

Theodore Roosevelt, President

"It was not until I had graduated from college that I made a professional commitment to it. Frankly, I didn't think it wise. I was my own interior parental force, and it's very difficult to justify a profession as a dancer"

Twyla Tharp, Dancer

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

William James, Philosopher

"If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise"

William Blake, Poet

"Don't follow any advice, no matter how good, until you feel as deeply in your spirit as you think in your mind that the counsel is wise"

Joan Rivers, Comedian

"The fool who persists in his folly will become wise"

William Blake, Poet

"A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn"

John Lubbock, Statesman

"A wise traveler never depreciates their own country"

Carlo Goldoni, Playwright

"To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent"

Buddha, Leader

"It takes a wise man to discover a wise man"

Diogenes, Philosopher

"Nothing would more contribute to make a man wise than to have always an enemy in his view"

George Savile, Politician

"Wise kings generally have wise counselors; and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one"

Diogenes, Philosopher

"Wise are those who learn that the bottom line doesn't always have to be their top priority"

William Arthur Ward, Writer

"Wise are they who have learned these truths: Trouble is temporary. Time is tonic. Tribulation is a test tube"

William Arthur Ward, Writer

"He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself at twenty"

Mary Wilson Little, Writer

"A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence"

David Hume, Philosopher

"The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself a fool"

Anatole France, Novelist

"Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life"

Epicurus, Philosopher

"To withdraw is not to run away, and to stay is no wise action, when there's more reason to fear than to hope"

Miguel de Cervantes, Novelist

"The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application"

Miguel de Cervantes, Novelist

"To speak and to speak well, are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks"

Ben Jonson, Poet

"The shallow consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise man sees in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws"

Walt Whitman, Poet

"Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent"

Napoleon Hill, Writer

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