Wise Quotes - page 3

It is easier to be wise for others than for oneself. (François de La Rochefoucauld)
Fools talk, cowards are silent, wise men listen. View quote
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool. View quote
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Yesterday I was clever. That is why I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise. That is why I am changing myself. View quote
Sri Chinmoy
Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance. View quote
Isaac Asimov
A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence. View quote
David Hume
No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right. View quote
Helen Keller
The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier. View quote
Jonathan Swift
If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise. View quote
William Blake
A wise man loses nothing, if he but saves himself. View quote
Michel de Montaigne
Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go. (Jean de La Fontaine)
Nothing is as dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is to be preferred. View quote
Jean de La Fontaine
Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed. View quote
Edward Young
Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons. View quote
Robertson Davies
Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought. View quote
Matsuo Bashō
You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions. View quote
Naguib Mahfouz
For since the fabric of the universe is most perfect, and is the work of a most wise Creator, nothing whatsoever takes place in the universe in which some relation of maximum and minimum does not appear. View quote
Leonhard Euler
The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations. View quote
Benjamin Disraeli
Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth. View quote
Voltaire
Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him. View quote
Dwight D. Eisenhower
A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation. (Molière)
He who would begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin. View quote
Horace
It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and say the opposite. View quote
Sam Levenson
Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author? View quote
Philip Gilbert Hamerton
A word to the wise is not sufficient if it doesn't make sense. View quote
James Thurber
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