In seeking wisdom thou art wise in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool.
~ Philip Stanhope
There can be no wise politics without thought beforehand.
~ Annie Besant
Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship.
~ James Russell Lowell
Where is instruction in relationships, in the management of career, in the raising of children, in the pursuit of friendship, in the wise approach to anxiety and death? All this sort of stuff I craved to learn about when I was a student and down to this day.
~ Alain De Botton
It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanism of friendship.
~ Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
~ H. G. Wells
I often feel like I have this spirit living inside of me, always dressing in like short mini skirts... but then I start to discover myself. So there are eight spirits, mischievous ones, sad ones, handsome ones, wise ones, and crazy ones.
~ Bai Ling
He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.
~ Voltaire
He who is not just is severe, he who is not wise is sad.
Yes, as an oppressed people, American Indians have this epic burden, but first and foremost, they're human: sometimes a mess, sometimes funny or sad, at times very wise, and other times not wise at all - a lot like me.
~ Alexandra Fuller
Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.
~ Bertolt Brecht
The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
~ Baltasar Gracián
A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Every wise, just, and mild government, by rendering the condition of its subjects easy and secure, will always abound most in people, as well as in commodities and riches.
~ David Hume
Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.
~ Plato
If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.
~ Frank Herbert
A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
~ Jonathan Swift
Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
~ Ambrose Bierce
Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
~ George Bernard Shaw
It is impossible to love and to be wise.
~ Francis Bacon
True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance.
~ Akhenaton
Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.
~ Aesop
Wise men make more opportunities than they find.
Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.
~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away.
~ Arthur Helps
Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die? Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom.
~ Alan Paton
They would need to be already wise, in order to love wisdom.
~ Friedrich Schiller
A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.
~ Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
I will give you a definition of a proud man: he is a man who has neither vanity nor wisdom one filled with hatreds cannot be vain, neither can he be wise.
~ John Keats
Be happy. It's one way of being wise.
If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.
~ William Butler Yeats
Wisdom is knowing when you can't be wise.
~ Paul Engle
Who is wise in love, love most, say least.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.
All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.
~ Henry David Thoreau
It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.
~ François De La Rochefoucauld
Don't follow any advice, no matter how good, until you feel as deeply in your spirit as you think in your mind that the counsel is wise.
~ Joan Rivers
Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.
~ George Santayana
