Wise Quotes

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
William James

Art, Knowing, Overlook

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

Pain, Aim, Pleasure

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

Themselves, Contradict, Bred

Be happy. It's one way of being wise.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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

Others, Errors, Corrects

Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the rest is in the hands of God.
George Washington

God, Honest, Rest

The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life - knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.
Aristotle

Life, Great, Live

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.
Plato

Love, Good, Joy

He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.
Lao Tzu

Others, Himself, Knows

All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.
Henry David Thoreau

Wisdom, Once, Worldly

For the wise man looks into space and he knows there is no limited dimensions.
Lao Tzu

Knows, Space, Looks

Don't follow any advice, no matter how good, until you feel as deeply in your spirit as you think in your mind that the counsel is wise.
Joan Rivers

Good, Mind, Advice

The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.
Lao Tzu

Others, Treasures, Gives

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Religion, True, Common

The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love.
Paulo Coelho

Love, Fool, Understand

The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Experience, Stupid, Reason

Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Men, Ignorant, Questions

Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent.
Napoleon Hill

Men, Doubt, Give

The Supreme Court has ruled that they cannot have a nativity scene in Washington, D.C. This wasn't for any religious reasons. They couldn't find three wise men and a virgin.
Jay Leno

Men, Find, Cannot

I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born.
Henry David Thoreau

Born, Regretting

Divide and rule, the politician cries; unite and lead, is watchword of the wise.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Lead, Rule, Politician

A word to the wise is infuriating.
Hunter S. Thompson

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.
George Bernard Shaw

Men, Experience, Capacity

Christmas in Bethlehem. The ancient dream: a cold, clear night made brilliant by a glorious star, the smell of incense, shepherds and wise men falling to their knees in adoration of the sweet baby, the incarnation of perfect love.
Lucinda Franks

Love, Men, Christmas

Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.
Theodore Roosevelt

Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.
Charles Spurgeon

Great, Men, Knowledge

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Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?
Voltaire

Experience, Others, Learn

The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.
Plato

Men, Government, Live

O wise man! Give your wealth only to the worthy and never to others. The water of the sea received by the clouds is always sweet.
Chanakya

Give, Others, Sea

We ought to fly away from earth to heaven as quickly as we can; and to fly away is to become like God, as far as this is possible; and to become like him is to become holy, just, and wise.
Plato

God, Him, Become

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