1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7 - 8 - 9 - 10 - 11 - 12 - 13 - 14
Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.
Plato
He was a wise man who invented beer.
Plato
Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.
Plato
We ought to fly away from earth to heaven as quickly as we can; and to fly away is to become like God, as far as this is possible; and to become like him is to become holy, just, and wise.
Plato
The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.
Plato
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
Plato
A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones that need the advice.
Bill Cosby
Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.
Helen Keller
No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.
Helen Keller
All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.
Henry David Thoreau
I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born.
Henry David Thoreau
No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
Hunter S. Thompson
Now the reason the enlightened prince and the wise general conquer the enemy whenever they move and their achievements surpass those of ordinary men is foreknowledge.
Sun Tzu
It is only the enlightened ruler and the wise general who will use the highest intelligence of the army for the purposes of spying, and thereby they achieve great results.
Sun Tzu
The skilful employer of men will employ the wise man, the brave man, the covetous man, and the stupid man.
Sun Tzu
He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.
Lao Tzu
The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.
Lao Tzu
Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?
Voltaire
Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.
Voltaire
He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.
Voltaire
