Quotes about Wise

Everyone has heard about your obedience, so I rejoice over you. But I want you to be wise about what is good and innocent about what is evil.

For it is written: “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise; the intelligence of the intelligent I will frustrate.”

For the wisdom of this world is foolishness in God’s sight. As it is written: “He catches the wise in their craftiness.”

Happiness is the secret of beauty. But who knows the secret of happiness? The wise woman keeps her cosmetics at hand.

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.

Advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill.

This scripture also did now most sweetly visit my soul; And him that cometh to Me, I will in no wise cast out.  Oh! the comfort that I had from this word, in no wise!  As who should say, By no means, for nothing whatever he hath done. 

The wise shall inherit glory, but shame shall be the promotion of fools.'" (Prov. 3:35)

Then I saw in my Dream, that when they were got out of the Wilderness, they presently saw a Town before them, and the name of that Town is Vanity; and at the Town there is a Fair kept, called Vanity Fair: it is kept all the year long; it beareth the name of Vanity Fair, because the Town where 'tis kept is lighter than Vanity; and also because all that is there sold, or that cometh thither, is Vanity. As is the saying of the wise, All that cometh is Vanity.

The faults of a man loved or honoured sometimes steal secretly and imperceptibly upon the wise and virtuous, but by injudicious fondness or thoughtless vanity are adopted with design.

The Word of God always speaks of two great divisions of mankind, and only two. It speaks of the living and the dead in sin, the believer and the unbeliever, the converted and the unconverted, the travelers in the narrow way and the travelers in the broad, the wise and the foolish, the children of God and the children of the devil.

a pattern of wise choices in the ordinary paves the road to a demonstration of wisdom in the extraordinary.