Wise Quotes - page 3

Many receive advice, but the wise profit from it. (Publilius Syrus)
The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations. View quote
Benjamin Disraeli
I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should appear like a fool but be wise. View quote
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
It is easier to be wise for others than for oneself. View quote
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. (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
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
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. (Leonhard Euler)
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 son makes a glad father, But a foolish son is the grief of his mother. View quote
King Solomon
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. View quote
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