Wise Quotes - page 4

The way to get on in the world is to be neither more nor less wise, neither better nor worse than your neighbours. (William Hazlitt)
Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists. View quote
Blaise Pascal
It is a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals. View quote
Felix Frankfurter
If mankind had always been logical and wise, history would not be a long chronicle of folly and crime. View quote
James Frazer
A wise traveler never despises his own country. View quote
Carlo Goldoni
To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men. View quote
Edmund Burke
Hip is the sophistication of the wise primitive in a giant jungle. View quote
Norman Mailer
Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich. View quote
Samuel Johnson
No man is great enough or wise enough for any of us to surrender our destiny to. The only way in which anyone can lead us is to restore to us the belief in our own guidance. View quote
Henry Miller
Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful. (Seneca)
I am enormously wise and abysmally ignorant. View quote
William Saroyan
Be happy. It's one way of being wise. View quote
Colette
That's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over, lest you should think he never could recapture the first fine careless rapture! View quote
Robert Browning
It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone. View quote
François de La Rochefoucauld
In examinations the foolish ask questions that the wise cannot answer. View quote
Oscar Wilde
He that is not handsome at 20, nor strong at 30, nor rich at 40, nor wise at 50, will never be handsome, strong, rich or wise. View quote
George Herbert
Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time. View quote
Theodore Roosevelt
The first degree of folly is to conceit one's self wise the second to profess it the third to despise counsel. View quote
Benjamin Franklin
It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it may happen that those who need sympathy the most often attract it the least. View quote
F. H. Bradley
Wisdom is knowing when you can't be wise. (Muhammad Ali)
What could be more beautiful than a dear old lady growing wise with age? Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it. View quote
Brigitte Bardot
Defer not till tomorrow to be wise, Tomorrow's sun to thee may never rise. View quote
William Congreve
Be wise; Soar not too high to fall; but stoop, to rise. View quote
Philip Massinger
Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world. View quote
Helen Keller
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