Wise Quotes

Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise. (Cato the Elder)
No man was ever wise by chance. View quote
Seneca
The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves. View quote
Oscar Wilde
A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer. View quote
Bruce Lee
Only the supremely wise and the ignorant do not alter. View quote
Confucius
The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naïve forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget. View quote
Thomas Szasz
A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men. View quote
Plato
Wise men make more opportunities than they find. View quote
Francis Bacon
A word to the wise is enough. View quote
Plautus
It is wise to be silent when occasion requires, and better than to speak, though never so well. View quote
Plutarch
A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesnt believe, and leaves before she is left. (Marilyn Monroe)
A wise son makes a glad father, But a foolish son is the grief of his mother. View quote
Solomon
Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish. View quote
Quintilian
If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius. View quote
Joseph Addison
Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. View quote
Aristophanes
It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them. View quote
Epictetus
He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has. View quote
Epictetus
He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened. View quote
Laozi
Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. View quote
Plato
Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise. View quote
Samuel Johnson
Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own. (Aesop)
Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life. View quote
Epicurus
I would far rather be ignorant than wise in the foreboding of evil. View quote
Aeschylus
To a wise man, the whole earth is open; for the native land of a good soul is the whole earth. View quote
Democritus
The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain. View quote
Aristotle
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