Quotes About Wise

The god, O men, seems to me to be really wise; and by his oracle to mean this, that the wisdom of this world is foolishness and of none effect.

The fool wonders, the wise man asks.

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.

It is one thing to be clever and another to be wise.

The tongue of a fool is the key of his counsel, which, in a wise man, wisdom hath in keeping.

Some wisdom you must learn from one who's wise

The good want power, but to weep barren tears. The powerful goodness want: worse need for them. The wise want love; and those who love want wisdom.

It is better to speak wisdom foolishly like the saints than to speak folly wisely like the deans.

You must not think me necessarily foolish because I am facetious, nor will I consider you necessarily wise because you are grave.

Human nature will not change," Lincoln said in response to a serenade in 1864. "In any future great national trial," he predicted, Americans would find people who were exactly "as weak and as strong, as silly and as wise, as bad and as good" as those who lived in his day.

Biblical laws and standards sound oppressive and restrictive in our lawless, arrogant twenty-first century culture. But the psalmists rhapsodize about the law of God as sweet, precious, life-giving, wise, pure, enlightening, liberating and good. In our homes, we follow the absolutes and principles of Scripture and apply them to the "stuff" of family life. The church supports our love of the law of God as satisfying and necessary for an edifying and productive life.

Proverbs 12:15–16 says: "The way of a fool seems right to him, but a wise man listens to advice. A fool shows his annoyance at once, but a prudent man overlooks an insult.

I'm frugal. I've always been this way. When I was young, my mom would give me my allowance, and I'd peel off a little each week and have some to spare.

Wise men change, fools stay the same.

Great wine requires a mad man to grow the vine, a wise man to watch over it, a lucid poet to make it, and a lover to drink it.

Intellectual is a parrot; wise man is a crow. One is repetitive; other is creative!

Fools talk, cowards are silent, wise men listen.

Seamen three! what men be ye? Gotham's three Wise Men we be. Whither in your bowl so free? To rake the moon from out the sea. The bowl goes trim. The moon doth shine, And our ballast is old wine.

Fools rush in, where wise men never go, But wise men never fall in love, so how are they to know?

The sot drinks, and is drunken: the coward drinks not, and shivers: the wise man, brave and free, drinks, and gives glory to the Most High God.

Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men.

A fool can throw a stone in a pond that 100 wise men can not get out.

At Athens, wise men propose, and fools dispose.

Cabbage: a familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head.