Wise Quotes

Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

History, Future, Him

Tell me I'm clever, Tell me I'm kind, Tell me I'm talented, Tell me I'm cute, Tell me I'm sensitive, Graceful and wise, Tell me I'm perfect - But tell me the truth.
Shel Silverstein

Truth, Perfect, Tell

No man was ever wise by chance.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had.
Margaret Mead

Enough, While, Believing

A wise woman recognizes when her life is out of balance and summons the courage to act to correct it, she knows the meaning of true generosity, happiness is the reward for a life lived in harmony, with a courage and grace.
Suze Orman

Life, Happiness, Courage

The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
Baltasar Gracian

Fool, Last, Once

A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
Jonathan Swift

Money, Heart, Head

If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.
Joseph Addison

Life, Hope, Experience

Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.
Aesop

A smart man only believes half of what he hears, a wise man knows which half.
Jeff Cooper

Smart, Knows, Half

A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests.
Niccolo Machiavelli

Faith, Keep, Against

The wise man does not grow old, but ripens.
Victor Hugo

A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.
William Blake

Fool, Same, Tree

The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man.
Euripides

Life, Great, Best

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
Francis Bacon

Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.
Baltasar Gracian

Alone, Mad, Rest

I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Love, Patience, Alone

Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away.
Arthur Helps

Away, Often, Word

To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.
Plutarch

Good, Power, Future

In our friendships we have to be wise that we choose godly people to be our friends. Somebody might say, well does that mean that you should never have a lost person as your friend? No, I wouldn't say that. But you can't have the same intimacy with a lost person that you can with a godly person in whom the Holy Spirit is living.
Charles Stanley

Friend, Person, Lost

Dogs are wise. They crawl away into a quiet corner and lick their wounds and do not rejoin the world until they are whole once more.
Agatha Christie

Away, Whole, Once

Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Life, Men, Both

Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance.
Isaac Asimov

Knowledge, Learning, Ignorance

It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.
Victor Hugo

Life, Books, Troubles

Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
Ambrose Bierce

Education, Foolish, Lack

Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.
Charles Caleb Colton

Silence, Foolish

It's not wise to violate rules until you know how to observe them.
T. S. Eliot

Until, Rules, Observe

Study how water flows in a valley stream, smoothly and freely between the rocks. Also learn from holy books and wise people. Everything - even mountains, rivers, plants and trees - should be your teacher.
Morihei Ueshiba

Teacher, Everything, Study

The intellect of the wise is like glass; it admits the light of heaven and reflects it.
Augustus Hare

Light, Heaven, Intellect

The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.
William Blake

Fool, Become, Folly

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