What could be more beautiful than a dear old lady growing wise with age? Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it.
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.
Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.
A wise man turns chance into good fortune.
Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away.
It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and say the opposite.
Search well and be wise, nor believe that self-willed pride will ever be better than good counsel.
No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.
No wise man ever wished to be younger.
The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.
'Tis folly to be wise.
Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.
God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.
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.
If you young fellows were wise, the devil couldn't do anything to you, but since you aren't wise, you need us who are old.
I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in either of them: Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden.
Your dear baby has died innocent and blameless, and has been called away by an all wise and merciful Creator, most probably from a life to misery and misfortune, and most certainly to one of happiness and bliss.
The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forbearing.
I'm considered wise, and sometimes I see myself as knowing. Most of the time, I see myself as wanting to know. And I see myself as a very interested person. I've never been bored in my life.
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.
That is a good question for you to ask, not a wise question for me to answer.
The wise man does not grow old, but ripens.
A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men.
He was a wise man who originated the idea of God.
I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise.
The American people may not be the best-educated, but they're very wise at heart.
A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.
Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots.
Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough.
Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.
It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it may happen that those who need sympathy the most often attract it the least.
We get wise by asking questions, and even if these are not answered, we get wise, for a well-packed question carries its answer on its back as a snail carries its shell.
To speak and to speak well, are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
Yet with great toil all that I can attain by long experience, and in learned schools, is for to know my knowledge is but vain, and those that think them wise, are greatest fools.
The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense.
Do not test out your mind on the grounds that you are examining what seductive and impure thoughts look like, imagining that, as you do this, you will not be overcome by them. Even the wise have in this way been thrown into confusion and become infatuated.