Wise Quotes - page 2

Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise. (Benjamin Franklin)
For to err in opinion, though it be not the part of wise men, is at least human. View quote
Plutarch
Now the reason the enlightened prince and the wise general conquer the enemy whenever they move and their achievements surpass those of ordinary men is foreknowledge. View quote
Sun Tzu
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook. View quote
William James
A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends. View quote
Baltasar Gracián
Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people. View quote
William Butler Yeats
No wise man ever wished to be younger. View quote
Jonathan Swift
Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish. View quote
Albert Einstein
Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others. View quote
Edward Abbey
I believe that water is the only drink for a wise man. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanism of friendship. (Colette)
Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom. View quote
Charles Spurgeon
Life's Tragedy is that we get old to soon and wise too late. View quote
Benjamin Franklin
It is impossible to love and to be wise. View quote
Francis Bacon
You can't be wise and in love at the same time. View quote
Bob Dylan
It is never too late to be wise. View quote
Daniel Defoe
A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart. View quote
Jonathan Swift
Every man is wise when attacked by a mad dog; fewer when pursued by a mad woman; only the wisest survive when attacked by a mad notion. View quote
Robertson Davies
Our greatest stupidities may be very wise. View quote
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Many receive advice, but the wise profit from it. View quote
Publilius Syrus
I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should appear like a fool but be wise. (Montesquieu)
Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men. View quote
Thomas Henry Huxley
Experience is the only prophecy of wise men. View quote
Alphonse de Lamartine
Cabbage: a familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
He who lives without committing any folly is not so wise as he thinks. View quote
François de La Rochefoucauld
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