The Wise Quotes

Wise people do not claim to know it all, they always choose to learn from others.

The enemies cannot destroy the king who has at his service the respect and friendship of the wise men who can find fault, disagree, and correct him.

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

A smart man makes a mistake, learns from it, and never makes that mistake again. But a wise man finds a smart man and learns from him how to avoid the mistake altogether.

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

Women desire six things: They want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous, obedient to wife, and lively in bed.

Wise and humane management of the patient is the best safeguard against infection.

Being a good person begins with being a wise person. Then, when you follow your conscience, will you be headed in the right direction.

Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.

Call a man 'ignorant, ' and you have license to show the world your vast fund of knowledge and wise him up.

The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.

Travel makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.

Senator Tester is wise enough to make sure his voice is heard in a positive manner to get things done.

In design as in life, smart can also mean wise, kind, inspiring - and cost-effective. And that has a charm all its own.

The stupid neither forgive nor forget the naive forgive and forget the wise forgive but do not forget.

In seeking wisdom thou art wise in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool.

It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanism of friendship.

They would need to be already wise, in order to love wisdom.

Some wisdom you must learn from one who's wise.

'Swan, ' by Mary Oliver. Poems and prose. Reading from this book is as if visiting a very wise friend. There is wisdom and welcoming kindness on every page.

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

Conservation means the wise use of the earth and its resources for the lasting good of men.

Men become wise just as they become rich, more by what they save than by what they receive.

I've always said that at the end of the day, on a legal issue, I think a wise old woman and a wise old man are going to reach the same conclusion.

When I was a boy, my own dad told me in a smiling and wistful way that it's a wise man that knows his own father.