Wise Quotes

Be quick to learn and wise to know.
George Burns

A wise man turns chance into good fortune.
Thomas Fuller

Good, Chance, Fortune

Teach a child what is wise, that is morality. Teach him what is wise and beautiful, that is religion!
Thomas Huxley

Religion, Beautiful, Him

It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents.
Samuel Butler

Music, Father, Parents

In Greece wise men speak and fools decide.
George Santayana

Men, Speak, Fools

Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay.
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Good, Men, Government

The wise musicians are those who play what they can master.
Duke Ellington

Play, Musicians, Master

A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
Michel de Montaigne

Wise are those who learn that the bottom line doesn't always have to be their top priority.
William Arthur Ward

Learn, Line, Top

It is not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.
William Hazlitt

Travel, Fool, Makes

I have not been that wise. Health I have taken for granted. Love I have demanded, perhaps too much and too often. As for money, I have only realized its true worth when I didn't have it.
Hedy Lamarr

Love, Health, Money

Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.
Samuel Johnson

Smile, Rich, Feed

Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men.
Thomas Huxley

Men, Logical, Fools

We can learn much from wise words, little from wisecracks, and less from wise guys.
William Arthur Ward

Words, Learn, Less

A wise traveler never despises his own country.
William Hazlitt

Country, Traveler, Despises

A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
Baltasar Gracian

Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others.
Edward Abbey

Men, Enough, Others

Who then is free? The wise man who can command himself.
Horace

Free, Himself, Command

A wise man should so write (though in words understood by all men) that wise men only should be able to commend him.
Thomas Hobbes

Men, Words, Him

He who would begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.
Horace

Done, Half, Begin

Thinking well to be wise: planning well, wiser: doing well wisest and best of all.
Malcolm Forbes

Best, Thinking, Wisest

We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.
Michel de Montaigne

Men, Knowledge, Wisdom

Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
Michel de Montaigne

Made, She, Lucky

A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
Michel de Montaigne

Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished from the public councils, because they dare to be honest, and the profligate are rewarded, because they flatter the people, in order to betray them.
Joseph Story

Honest, Betray, Public

He was a wise man who originated the idea of God.
Euripides

God, Idea, Originated

The good and the wise lead quiet lives.
Euripides

Good, Lives, Quiet

The fool wanders, a wise man travels.
Thomas Fuller

Fool, Travels, Wanders

My idea is always to reach my generation. The wise writer writes for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmasters of ever afterward.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Idea, Youth, Next

Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life.
Epicurus

Life, Greatest, Reason

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