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The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.
Benjamin Disraeli
The fool wonders, the wise man asks.
Benjamin Disraeli
Don't follow any advice, no matter how good, until you feel as deeply in your spirit as you think in your mind that the counsel is wise.
Joan Rivers
Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.
Alexander Pope
How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!
Alexander Pope
Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
Samuel Johnson
Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.
Samuel Johnson
A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.
Samuel Johnson
Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.
Samuel Johnson
A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.
Samuel Johnson
To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself.
Thomas Carlyle
No man is great enough or wise enough for any of us to surrender our destiny to. The only way in which anyone can lead us is to restore to us the belief in our own guidance.
Henry Miller
That's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over, lest you should think he never could recapture the first fine careless rapture!
Robert Browning
A wise doctor does not mutter incantations over a sore that needs the knife.
Sophocles
A wise man does not chatter with one whose mind is sick.
Sophocles
Wise thinkers prevail everywhere.
Sophocles
Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.
Aesop
A wise person decides slowly but abides by these decisions.
Arthur Ashe
It takes a wise man to discover a wise man.
Diogenes
Wise kings generally have wise counselors; and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one.
Diogenes
