Wise Quotes

There was no division I could see between the essential teaching of all Prophets and wise men of religion.
Cat Stevens

Religion, Men, Between

A vain man finds it wise to speak good or ill of himself; a modest man does not talk of himself.
Jean de la Bruyere

Good, Talk, Speak

What could be more beautiful than a dear old lady growing wise with age? Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it.
Brigitte Bardot

Age, Beautiful, Live

A wise unselfishness is not a surrender of yourself to the wishes of anyone, but only to the best discoverable course of action.
David Seabury

Best, Yourself, Action

How do you know antiquity was foolish? How do you know the present is wise? Who made it foolish? Who made it wise?
Francois Rabelais

Made, Present, Foolish

In quiet moments when you think about it, you recognize what is critically important in life and what isn't. Be wise and don't let good things crowd out those that are essential.
Richard G. Scott

Life, Good, Important

Sotomayor's vainglorious lecture bromide about herself as 'a wise Latina' trumping white men is a vulgar embarrassment - a vestige of the bad old days of male-bashing feminism.
Camille Paglia

Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.
Will Durant

Money, History, Last

One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.
Amos Bronson Alcott

Reader, Wisely, Quote

People can do all kinds of things that maybe aren't wise in hindsight because of jealousy.
Kristin Bauer van Straten

Jealousy, Maybe, Kinds

Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.
Matsuo Basho

Follow, Seek, Footsteps

Why should I ask the wise men: Whence is my beginning? I am busy with the thought: Where will be my end?
Muhammad Iqbal

You ask: what is the meaning or purpose of life? I can only answer with another question: do you think we are wise enough to read God's mind?
Freeman Dyson

Life, God, Mind

During a negotiation, it would be wise not to take anything personally. If you leave personalities out of it, you will be able to see opportunities more objectively.
Brian Koslow

Able, Leave, Personally

If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.
Frank Herbert

Government, Sense, Create

Poverty makes you wise but it's a curse.
Bertolt Brecht

Poverty, Makes, Curse

Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.
Plautus

Life, Friend, Advice

The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.
Miguel de Cervantes

Found, Wealth, Possession

Time ripens all things; no man is born wise.
Miguel de Cervantes

A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times.
Lord Acton

Fool, Person, Different

Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.
Andre Breton

Nature, Writing, Arts

The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.
Herbert Spencer

Future, Past, Remember

Great deeds give choice of many tales. Choose a slight tale, enrich it large, and then let wise men listen.
Pindar

Great, Men, Give

The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense.
Dean Inge

Wisdom, Sense, Common

Who is the wise man? He who sees what's going to be born.
King Solomon

No man is wise enough by himself.
Plautus

Enough, Himself

A word to the wise is enough.
Plautus

To withdraw is not to run away, and to stay is no wise action, when there's more reason to fear than to hope.
Miguel de Cervantes

Hope, Fear, Away

Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise... specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine.
Allan Bloom

Success, Children, Lost

A fool can throw a stone in a pond that 100 wise men can not get out.
Saul Bellow

Men, Fool, Throw

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