Wisdom Wise Quotes

To know what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty... this knowledge, this feeling is at the center of true religiousness.

Look before you leap.

The wise may find in trifles light as atoms in the air, some useful lesson to enrich the mind.

A man is wise with the wisdom of his time only, and ignorant with its ignorance.

Fear is a natural reaction to moving closer to the truth

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.

A wise man will always be a Christian, because the perfection of wisdom is to know where lies tranquillity of mind and how to attain it, which Christianity teaches.

A sense of our own folly is a great step towards being wise, when it leads us to rely on the wisdom of the Lord.

Solitude is the audience-chamber of God.

A wise, joyous bookit unfolds the knowledge and the beauty of the two lives it embraces-old wisdom and young discover, intertwining like vines.

A wise man can and should stand above his times, not so the poet, but he should be their apex.

Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices.

For every problem, there exists a simple and elegant solution which is absolutely wrong.

There is no happiness where there is no wisdom; No wisdom but in submission to the gods. Big words are always punished, And proud men in old age learn to be wise.

How terrible is wisdom, when it brings no profit to the man that's wise

Owls are wise. They are careful and patient. Wisdom precludes boldness. That is why owls make poor heroes.

Solitude is an ocean with wonderful places hidden in its depths.

Truth seeks light, lies seek shadows.

Nine tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time.

What is the unmistakable mark of a wise man? It is Love, Love for all humanity.

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

It seems to me that it is the basic right of any human being to work.

A wise man who cultivates wisdom may sometimes drown in it.

True success does not always come in forms that are visible or measurable.

If we seek a positive outcome, we must begin with a positive attitude.

Not a single creature on earth has more or less right to be here.

Each step, each strain of the eye Opens out a new horizon; And every day throws in our way Something new, to grow more wise on.

Follow then the shining ones, the wise, the awakened, the loving, for they know how to work and forbear.

I long to be in the midst of the children, and have more pleasure in their little follies than in the wisdom of the wise.

Do you wish the world were better? Let me tell you what to do: Set a watch upon your actions, Keep them always straight and true.

The wise man knows nothing if he cannot benefit from his wisdom. Wisdom is not only to be acquired, but also to be utilized.

If you are what you eat, you are what you see and hear.

Be wise today; 'tis madness to defer. Next day the fatal precedent will plead; thus on, til wisdom is pushed our of life.

A wise physician, skill'd our wounds to heal, is more than armies to the public weal.

You cannot be wise without some basis of knowledge, but you may easily acquire knowledge and remain bare of wisdom.

A life all turbulence and noise may seem To him that leads it wise and to be praised, But wisdom is a pearl with most success Sought in still waters.

Those men that in their writings are most wise Own nothing but their blind, stupefied hearts.

When a king begins to act like a king, it is not long before someone else is king! Serving is a way we can place value on one another. A wise man is a server.

In an old time there was a king as wise as a dictionary.

Listen to the silence... it has much to say.

If the universe is so bad...how on earth did human beings ever come to attribute it to the activity of a wise and good Creator?

The wise man should withdraw his soul within, out of the crowd, and keep it in freedom and power to judge things freely; but as for externals, he should wholly follow the accepted fashions and forms.

Wise people may say what they will, but one passion is never cured by another.

Moderately wise each one should be, Not overwise, for a wise man's heart Is seldom glad (Norse Wisdom)

Being wise doth either make men our friends or discourage them from being our enemies.

It is not wise to be wiser than is necessary. [Fr., Ce n'est pas etre sage D'etre plus sage qu'il ne le faut.]

On every hand we observe a truly wise practice, in education, in morals, and in the arts of life, the embodied wisdom of many an ancient philosopher.

Observe the life like a wise tree by the side of a calm lake! Do not move; just sit and observe! Observe the Sun, observe the storms; observe the wisdom, observe the stupidities!

A wise man heedeth all things, and in his own eyes is a fool.

Lose no time to contradict her, Nor endeavor to convict her; Only take this rule along, Always to advise her wrong, And reprove her when she's right; She may then grow wise for spite.