Wise Quotes

Yet with great toil all that I can attain by long experience, and in learned schools, is for to know my knowledge is but vain, and those that think them wise, are greatest fools.
William Alexander

Great, Experience, Knowledge

Libraries keep the records on behalf of all humanity. the unique and the absurd, the wise and the fragments of stupidity.
Vartan Gregorian

Stupidity, Humanity, Keep

A wise man looks upon men as he does on horses; all their comparisons of title, wealth, and place, he consider but as harness.
Robert Cecil

Men, Place, Wealth

My mother went to a school called 'The Club of the Three Wise Monkeys'. And my grandmother, my father's mother, had a gold charm for her made with the speak no, see no, hear no evil monkeys. And I was fascinated by that charm. I'd sit in my mother's lap and play with it all the time.
Mackenzie Phillips

Time, Mother, School

I became fascinated with the concept of speak no, see no, hear no evil. And - and the actual depiction of three wise monkeys. And I began collecting it over the years. And I kind of figured that I might be the - the fourth monkey, the feel no evil monkey.
Mackenzie Phillips

Evil, Speak, Three

Clever people master life; the wise illuminate it and create fresh difficulties.
Emil Nolde

Life, Create, Fresh

Extreme nationalism and Bolshevism have broken up the old world, a new world is in the making. It is literally true that old things are passing away; all things may become new, granted we have wise, unselfish, and determined guides.
John Raleigh Mott

It behoves thee to love God wisely; and that may thou not do but if thou be wise.
Richard Rolle

A little too wise, they say, do ne'er live long.
Thomas Middleton

I endeavor to be wise when I cannot be merry, easy when I cannot be glad, content with what cannot be mended and patient when there be no redress.
Elizabeth Montagu

Cannot, Easy, Patient

A society that does not use the intellectual power of its female population fully is not a wise society. Most women are not as tainted by mistakes in the conduct of the economy as the male population, and now they deserve an opportunity.
Johanna Siguroardottir

Women, Power, Society

God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.
Pierre Charron

Nature, God, Him

The truly generous is the truly wise, and he who loves not others lives unblest!
Henry Home

Others, Lives, Truly

The fool inherits, but the wise must get.
William Cartwright

I'd like to be very wise.
Duffy

Some of the wise boys who say my music is loud, blatant and that's all should see the faces of the kids who have driven a hundred miles through the snow to see the band... to stand in front of the bandstand in an ecstasy all their own.
Stan Kenton

Music, Snow, Through

True conservation provides for wise use by the general public. The American people do not want our resources preserved for the exclusive use of the wealthy. These land and water resources belong to the people, and people of all income levels should have easy access to them.
George D. Aiken

True, American, Easy

You must be wise, but not too wise.
Alexander Turney Stewart

Sad and sweet and wise Here a child reposes; Dust is on his eyes, Quietly he lies - Satan, strew Roses.
Robert Williams Buchanan

Sad, Eyes, Here

We were young, we were merry, we were very, very wise, And the door stood open at our feast, When there passed us a woman with the West in her eyes, And a man with his back to the East.
Mary Elizabeth Coleridge

Woman, Eyes, Young

It is not wise to be wiser than is necessary.
Philippe Quinault

Necessary, Wiser

At what point does CNN wise up and rein in 'Larry King Live' to save itself?
Phil Rosenthal

Live, Point, King

Consider the birds. Be wise as serpents.
Hilda Doolittle

Consider, Birds

I'm not very wise to many things.
Charles Manson

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