Quotes About Wise

Thank God, men that art greatly guilty are never wise.

One of the Seven [wise men of Greece] was wont to say: That laws were like cobwebs, where the small flies are caught and the great break through.

To educate the wise man, the State exists; and with the appearance of the wise man, the State expires. The appearance of charactermakes the state unnecessary. The wise man is the State.

Love in fools is better than hate in the wise.

When fortune favors fools, it is to punish them for the sake of the wise.

Her shut-eyed smile transformed itself into something else: the smile of someone brave and knowing, someone whose pain had made her wise.

Knowledge is air to the wise.Wisdom is poison to a fool.

The shrewd may gain temporarily, but the wise gain permanently.

The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice, and he that begetteth a wise child shall have joy in him. Proverbs 23:24

I will love to be called a foolish man of peace, than to be named a wise man of war. Show me your weapons of war and I will show you my Bible of peace!

Unconsciously, I had doubts about everything around me, and all I had to do is to act selfish, and to walk through everything like a wise lady. So I attracted their eyes and I haunted their thoughts.

An old fool is worse than a young one: For the young may always grow wise. (Zohair)

The unexpectedness of life, waiting round every corner, catches even wise women unawares (...) To avoid corners altogether is, after all, to refuse to live.

The more pity, that fools may not speak wisely what wise men do foolishly.

It has always been the opinion and judgment of wise men that nothing can be so uncertain as fame or power not founded on its own strength.

All things and all people in life have to sink or swim on their own merits, not their reputation; that just as a wise man can say a foolish thing, a fool can say something wise.

A fool marvels at rare things, but a wise man at common ones.

Fools make researches and wise men exploit them.

Great deeds give choice of many tales. Choose a slight tale, enrich it large, and then let wise men listen

The magi, as you know, were wise men wonderfully wise men who brought gifts to the Babe in the manger. They invented the art of giving Christmas presents.

Rules were made for fools to follow and wise men to be guided by.

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

To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself.

Conceit is a privilege of the ignorant; the wise man is humble because he knows how little he knows.