Quotes on Wise

Wise people are in want of nothing, and yet need many things. On the other hand, nothing is needed by fools, for they do not understand how to use anything, but are in want of everything.

Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.

There is only a finger's difference between a wise man and a fool.

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

For to err in opinion, though it be not the part of wise men, is at least human.

Silence is an answer to a wise man.

For never, never, wicked man was wise.

Some wisdom you must learn from one who's wise

But do not despise the lore that has come down from distant years; for oft it may chance that old wives keep in memory word of things that once were needful for the wise to know.

Disguise our bondage as we will, 'Tis woman, woman, rules us still.

Could the straggling thoughts of individuals be collected, they would frequently form materials for wise and able men to improve into useful matter.

A word to the wise is sufficient

Weep not for me. Rather let your tears flow for the sorrows of the multitude. My work is done. Like a ripe fruit I admit the gathering. Death has no terrors for it is a wise law of nature. I am ready whenever the summons may come.

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

Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.

A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.

There are some persons in this world, who, unable to give better proof of being wise, take a strange delight in showing what they think they have sagaciously read in mankind by uncharitable suspicions of them.

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.

A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.

I hate crowds and making speeches. I hate facing cameras and having to answer to a crossfire of questions. Why popular fancy should seize upon me, a scientist, dealing in abstract things and happy if left alone, is a manifestation of mass psychology that is beyond me.

Those instrumental goods which should serve to maintain the life and health of all human beings should be produced by the least possible labour of all.