Wise Quotes

A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones that need the advice.
Bill Cosby

Stupid, Advice, Word

Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.
Sholom Aleichem

Life, Fool, Game

A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.
William Shakespeare

Fool, Himself, Knows

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.
Moliere

Best, Patience, Him

Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
Albert Einstein

God, Before, Foolish

A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circlue of our felicities.
Thomas Jefferson

Good, Men, Government

The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.
Khalil Gibran

Teacher, Wisdom, Mind

A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Fool, Himself, Flatters

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Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.
Plato

Men, Speak, Fools

To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.
Buddha

Life, Death, Short

A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.
Bruce Lee

Fool, Learn, Question

Life's Tragedy is that we get old to soon and wise too late.
Benjamin Franklin

Life, Old, Late

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.
Helen Keller

Enemy, Worst, Yield

The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve.
Buddha

Through, Thought, Speech

Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart.
Alan Alda

Smart, Remember

Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.
Benjamin Franklin

Powerful, Rich, Everyone

It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look further than you can see.
Winston Churchill

Difficult, Ahead, Further

We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
George Bernard Shaw

It is a wise father that knows his own child.
William Shakespeare

Father, Child, Knows

When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.
Winston Churchill

War, Winning, Almost

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.
Plato

Men, Hero, Might

Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.
Benjamin Franklin

Men, Advice, Won

He was a wise man who invented beer.
Plato

I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.
Edgar Allan Poe

Faith, Happy, Human

A smart man makes a mistake, learns from it, and never makes that mistake again. But a wise man finds a smart man and learns from him how to avoid the mistake altogether.
Roy H. Williams

Smart, Him, Again

No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.
Helen Keller

Happiness, Mean, Matter

Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.
William Shakespeare

Men, Adversity, Wisest

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From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus

Others, Errors, Corrects

The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.
Oscar Wilde

Themselves, Contradict, Bred

The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
Aristotle

Pain, Aim, Pleasure

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