If you want to marry wisely, marry your equal.
It is, indeed, difficult to conceive how men who have entirely given up the habit of self-government should succeed in making a proper choice of those by whom they are to be governed; and no one will ever believe that a liberal, wise, and energetic g...
When we looked at the life cycle in our 40s, we looked to old people for wisdom. At 80, though, we look at other 80-year-olds to see who got wise and who not. Lots of old people don't get wise, but you don't get wise unless you age.
In honesty you have to admit to a wise man that prayer is not for the wise, not for the prudent, not for the sophisticated. Instead it is for those who recognize that in face of their deepest needs, all their wisdom is quite helpless. It is for those...
When someone studies well, has a successful career, or deals with difficulties well, people think he is a wise man. However, such successes do not mean that one is wise. True wisdom is to know with the consciousness of God.
Make the wise man within you your living ideal.
Who is the wise man? He who sees what's going to be born.
A wise woman wishes to be no one's enemy; a wise woman refuses to be anyone's victim.
A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
A wise teacher learns in the midst of teaching; a wise student teaches in the midst of learning.
Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.
It behoves thee to love God wisely; and that may thou not do but if thou be wise.
He was a wise man who originated the idea of God.
A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.
No evil being was ever wise: they are all against every wise man's critics.
There is only a finger's difference between a wise man and a fool.
A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.
Travel makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.
It is not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.
The conqueror is regarded with awe; the wise man commands our respect; but it is only the benevolent man that wins our affection.
The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love.
