Quotes about Wise
The fool wonders, the wise man asks.
- Benjamin Disraeli
It is better to speak wisdom foolishly like the saints than to speak folly wisely like the deans.
- GK Chesterton
I told you that your dream was a difficult one. It's the simple things in life that are the most extraordinary; only wise men are able to understand them.
- Paulo Coelho
I reckon silence more profitable than speech, for? in the words of the Preacher, 'The words of wise men are heard in quiet' (Eccles. 9:17).
- St. Basil
Let us be poised, wise and our own today.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It's the same struggle for each of us, and the same path out: the utterly simple, infinitely wise, ultimately defiant act of loving one thing and then another, loving our way back to life.
- Barbara Kingsolver
For other things mild Heav'n a time ordains, And disapproves that care, though wise in show, That with superfluous burden loads the day, And when God sends a cheerful hour, refrains.
- John Milton
Consistency is not a habit of mind which it is wise to practice or to expect of the human race.
- Ayn Rand
The love of fame is a passion natural and universal, which no man, however high or mean, however wise or ignorant, was yet able to despise.
- Samuel Johnson
Be very careful, then, how you live—not as unwise but as wise, making the most of every opportunity, because the days are evil. Ephesians 5:15—16 NIV
- Max Lucado
He often uses the foolish things of this world to confound the wise (see 1 Cor. 1:28).
- Beth Moore
The gate is small because truth guards the entrance. The way is narrow because the Lord protects us with wise boundaries.
- Charles Stanley