Wise Quotes

It is wise to direct your anger towards problems - not people; to focus your energies on answers - not excuses.
William Arthur Ward

Anger, Focus, Problems

It is wise to persuade people to do things and make them think it was their own idea.
Nelson Mandela

He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
Epictetus

Grieve, Rejoices

The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.
Niccolo Machiavelli

Fool, Once, Finally

Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
Plato

Great, Understand, Themselves

It is impossible to love and to be wise.
Francis Bacon

Love, Impossible

The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.
Thomas Szasz

Stupid, Forget, Forgive

Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.
Voltaire

Religion, Mother, Long

An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight... the truly wise person is colorblind.
Albert Schweitzer

Person, Light, While

Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
H. G. Wells

Sad, Sorry, Sober

A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.
Samuel Johnson

Time, Pain, True

If you young fellows were wise, the devil couldn't do anything to you, but since you aren't wise, you need us who are old.
Martin Luther

Young, Old, Since

He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.
Voltaire

It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.
Epictetus

Nature, Foolish, Slave

Do not reveal what you have thought upon doing, but by wise council keep it secret being determined to carry it into execution.
Chanakya

Thought, Keep, Secret

It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and say the opposite.
Sam Levenson

Stupid, Simple, Opposite

He who is not just is severe, he who is not wise is sad.
Voltaire

Now the reason the enlightened prince and the wise general conquer the enemy whenever they move and their achievements surpass those of ordinary men is foreknowledge.
Sun Tzu

Men, Enemy, Reason

The man who can keep a secret may be wise, but he is not half as wise as the man with no secrets to keep.
E. W. Howe

May, Keep, Secret

A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Angry, Sick, Mad

A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Single, Study, Books

To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution.
Marcus Aurelius

Life, Fool, Problem

I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in either of them: Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden.
Saint Augustine

Beautiful, Read, Either

It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods.
H. L. Mencken

God, Impossible, Universe

The skilful employer of men will employ the wise man, the brave man, the covetous man, and the stupid man.
Sun Tzu

Men, Stupid, Brave

It is only the enlightened ruler and the wise general who will use the highest intelligence of the army for the purposes of spying, and thereby they achieve great results.
Sun Tzu

Great, Achieve, Results

The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.
Chanakya

Time, Knowledge, Place

Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.
H. L. Mencken

Good, Men, Giving

Every judgement of conscience, be it right or wrong, be it about things evil in themselves or morally indifferent, is obligatory, in such wise that he who acts against his conscience always sins.
Thomas Aquinas

Evil, Wrong, Against

No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.
H. L. Mencken

Long, Woman, Matter

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