Wise Quotes – Sayings About Wisdom

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“Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.”
– Edward Young

“It seems to me that it is the basic right of any human being to work.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt

“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt

“Think before you speak. Read before you think.”
– Fran Lebowitz

“A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.”
– Francis Bacon

“Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.”
– Frank Lloyd Wright

“The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche

“We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“Nature gave men two ends one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man’s success or failure has been dependent on the one he used most.”
– George R. Kirkpatrick

“Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the rest is in the hands of God.”
– George Washington

“The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.”
– Gibran Khalil Gibran

“I AM IGNORANT of absolute truth. But I am humble before my ignorance and therein lies my honor and my reward.”
– Gibran Khalil Gibran

“Learn from the mistakes of others. You can never live long enough to make them all yourself.”
– Groucho Marx

“The older I grow, the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.”
– H.L. Mencken

“A fool’s mind is at the mercy of his tongue and a wise man’s tongue is under the control of his mind.”
– Hazrat Ali

“The wiser a man is, the less talkative will he be.”
– Hazrat Ali

“A wise man first thinks and then speaks and a fool speaks first and then thinks.”
– Hazrat Ali

“Be afraid of a gentleman when he is hungry, and of a mean person when his stomach is full.”
– Hazrat Ali

“He who is greedy is disgraced; he who discloses his hardship will always be humiliated; he who has no control over his tongue will often have to face discomfort.”
– Hazrat Ali

“I wonder at a man who loses hope of salvation when the door of repentance is open for him.”
– Hazrat Ali

“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 one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no one can be perfectly happy till all are happy.”
– Herbert Spencer

“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

“A word to the wise is infuriating.”
– Hunter S. Thompson

“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”
– Isaac Asimov

“I’m not young enough to know everything.”
– J.M. Barrie

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