A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.
The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.
They would need to be already wise, in order to love wisdom.
If a wise man behaves prudently, how can he be overcome by his enemies? Even a single man, by right action, can overcome a host of foes.
A wise man fights to win, but he is twice a fool who has no plan for possible defeat.
It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.
Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.
To despise no opportunity of usefulness is a leading rule with those who are wise to win souls.
It is best for the wise man not to seem wise.
Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital. The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket.
Emotion is always the enemy of wise statesmanship.
A wise woman puts a grain of sugar into everything she says to a man, and takes a grain of salt with everything he says to her.
Religious ideas about good and evil tend to focus on how to achieve well-being in the next life, and this makes them terrible guides to securing it in this one. Of course, there are a few gems to be found in every religious tradition, but insofar as these precepts are wise and useful they are not, in principle, religious.
A fool is wise in his eyes.
A wise person decides slowly but abides by these decisions.
Extreme nationalism and Bolshevism have broken up the old world, a new world is in the making. It is literally true that old things are passing away; all things may become new, granted we have wise, unselfish, and determined guides.
Be happy. It's one way of being wise.
It's been very nice. I haven't gotten out too much because we've been working a lot but other wise the people have been very nice and I've had a good time.
My mother went to university, my father didn't. But they are very educated, very wise people. My father went to the military, so he's worldly.
For to err in opinion, though it be not the part of wise men, is at least human.
It is wise for us to forget our troubles, there are always new ones to replace them.
That was my choice at that time, and I still say Nixon was a great president. A very beautiful and wise man.
I'd like to be wise. You have to go through a lot to get there, but I'm willing to go through a lot.
And, hey, I'm not under the illusion that everything's just going to be hunky-dory work wise forever. I've never been under that illusion. Things could go away tomorrow.
Some of the wise boys who say my music is loud, blatant and that's all should see the faces of the kids who have driven a hundred miles through the snow to see the band... to stand in front of the bandstand in an ecstasy all their own.
The care of a wise and good man for his only son is inferior to the regard of the great Parent of the universe for his creatures.
We want a state wise in its contemplation - just in its actions - and moderate in the reach of government into our lives.
Why should I ask the wise men: Whence is my beginning? I am busy with the thought: Where will be my end?
Thinking well to be wise: planning well, wiser: doing well wisest and best of all.
Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.
From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.
For the wise man looks into space and he knows there is no limited dimensions.
Some deemed him wondrous wise, and some believed him mad.
A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart.
A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.
He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.
