Wise Quotes

Life is a pilgrimage. The wise man does not rest by the roadside inns. He marches direct to the illimitable domain of eternal bliss, his ultimate destination.
Swami Sivananda

Life, Rest, Bliss

Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots.
Karl Kraus

Education, Idiots, Foolish

Every wise, just, and mild government, by rendering the condition of its subjects easy and secure, will always abound most in people, as well as in commodities and riches.
David Hume

Government, Easy, Condition

I never think of myself as wise. I think of myself as possessing a critical intelligence which I intend to allow to operate.
Harold Pinter

Critical, Possessing, Allow

Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable.
John Patrick

Life, Wisdom, Pain

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations.
William Feather

Experience, Wisdom, Nation

The two big advantages I had at birth were to have been born wise and to have been born in poverty.
Sophia Loren

Two, Big, Poverty

For this is the mark of a wise and upright man, not to rail against the gods in misfortune.
Aeschylus

Against, Gods, Mark

There are some persons in this world, who, unable to give better proof of being wise, take a strange delight in showing what they think they have sagaciously read in mankind by uncharitable suspicions of them.
Herman Melville

Give, Strange, Read

I resolved to stop accumulating and begin the infinitely more serious and difficult task of wise distribution.
Andrew Carnegie

Serious, Difficult, Stop

It is often wise to reveal that which cannot be concealed for long.
Friedrich Schiller

Long, Cannot, Often

They would need to be already wise, in order to love wisdom.
Friedrich Schiller

Love, Wisdom, Order

It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanism of friendship.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Friendship, Oil, Politeness

Wise kings generally have wise counselors; and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one.
Diogenes

Himself, Capable, Kings

A word to the wise is not sufficient if it doesn't make sense.
James Thurber

Sense, Word, Sufficient

I clearly understood the concept of wise use before I ever heard the actual words, for my father wouldn't allow us to waste anything.
Ted Nugent

Father, Words, Before

A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn.
John Lubbock

Education, Learn, Last

Nothing wise was ever printed upon an apron.
Demetri Martin

Nothing, Printed

A wise woman knows how to summon her courage and do what is right, rather than what is easy.
Suze Orman

Courage, Woman, Her

A wise nation should cultivate a political spirit that allows opponents to cooperate without fearing an automatic execution from their core supporters. Who knew that the real rogues in American politics would be the ones who dare to get along?
Jon Meacham

Politics, Political, Real

Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons.
Robertson Davies

Same, Lovable, Quiet

When complaints are freely heard, deeply considered and speedily reformed, then is the utmost bound of civil liberty attained that wise men look for.
John Milton

Men, Liberty, Heard

The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.
Herodotus

Human, Influence, Hateful

Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough.
Lord Chesterfield

Men, Enough, Young

Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die? Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom.
Alan Paton

Men, Wisdom, Live

Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.
Alphonse de Lamartine

Men, Experience, Prophecy

Where wise actions are the fruit of life, wise discourse is the pollination.
Bryant H. McGill

Life, Actions, Fruit

There has never been any country at every moment so virtuous and so wise that it has not sometimes needed to be saved from itself.
Havelock Ellis

Country, Moment, Sometimes

But I think I have done right to save the vision in this way, even though I may die sooner because I did it; for I know the meaning of the vision is wise and beautiful and good; and you can see that I am only a pitiful old man after all.
Black Elk

Good, Beautiful, May

'How do you know so much about everything?' was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was 'By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.'
John Abbott

Everything, Afraid, Ignorant

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