Wise Quotes

A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart.
Jonathan Swift

Money, Heart, Person

Wise to resolve, and patient to perform.
Homer

Patient, Resolve, Perform

Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.
Bertolt Brecht

Sad, Poverty, Makes

Look wise, say nothing, and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought.
William Osler

Nothing, Thought, Speech

The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.
Jonathan Swift

Life, Person, Opinions

I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn't lived that life.
Sonia Sotomayor

Life, Hope, Woman

The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world.
Charles Caleb Colton

Fool, Mistakes, Himself

A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.
David Hume

Belief, Evidence

At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time.
Ovid

Time, Everything, Times

The one knowing what is profitable, and not the man knowing many things, is wise.
Aeschylus

Knowing, Profitable

He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself at twenty.
Mary Wilson Little

Hard, May, Thought

Knowledge is the treasure of a wise man.
William Penn

Knowledge, Treasure

Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible.
Eric Hoffer

Good, Living, Few

The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored.
Jean de la Bruyere

Fear, Society, Person

The best books for a man are not always those which the wise recommend, but often those which meet the peculiar wants, the natural thirst of his mind, and therefore awaken interest and rivet thought.
William Ellery Channing

Best, Mind, Thought

A silent man is easily reputed wise. A man who suffers none to see him in the common jostle and undress of life, easily gathers round him a mysterious veil of unknown sanctity, and men honor him for a saint. The unknown is always wonderful.
Frederick William Robertson

Luck can be assisted. It is not all chance with the wise.
Baltasar Gracian

Chance, Luck, Assisted

Every man is wise when attacked by a mad dog; fewer when pursued by a mad woman; only the wisest survive when attacked by a mad notion.
Robertson Davies

Woman, Mad, Dog

I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise.
Charles de Montesquieu

Fool, Succeed, Seem

True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance.
Akhenaton

Wisdom, Fool, Ignorance

It's bad taste to be wise all the time, like being at a perpetual funeral.
David Herbert Lawrence

Time, Bad, Taste

It is wise for us to forget our troubles, there are always new ones to replace them.
Brigham Young

Forget, Troubles, Replace

Our greatest stupidities may be very wise.
Ludwig Wittgenstein

Nothing is as dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is to be preferred.
Jean de La Fontaine

Enemy, Nothing, Friend

For since the fabric of the universe is most perfect and the work of a most wise Creator, nothing at all takes place in the universe in which some rule of maximum or minimum does not appear.
Leonhard Euler

Work, Nothing, Perfect

Listening is such a simple act. It requires us to be present, and that takes practice, but we don't have to do anything else. We don't have to advise, or coach, or sound wise. We just have to be willing to sit there and listen.
Margaret J. Wheatley

Simple, Else, Act

The wisest of the wise may err.
Aeschylus

May, Wisest, Err

It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
Aeschylus

Foolish, Seem, Profitable

We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.
Georg C. Lichtenberg

Wisdom, Stupid, Words

A fool is wise in his eyes.
King Solomon

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