153 quotes found
“It is best for the wise man not to seem wise.”
“Being a good person begins with being a wise person. Then, when you follow your conscience, will you be headed in the right direction.”
“The good and the wise lead quiet lives.”
“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...”
“Wise and humane management of the patient is the best safeguard against infection.”
“Make men wise, and by that very operation you make them free. Civil liberty follows as a consequence of this; no usurped power can stand against the artillery of opinion.”
“Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.”
“Luck can be assisted. It is not all chance with the wise.”
“Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair the rest is in the hands of God.”
“He was a wise man who originated the idea of God.”
“Knowledge is the treasure of a wise man.”
“Call a man 'ignorant,' and you have license to show the world your vast fund of knowledge and wise him up.”
“Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance.”
“The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.”
“Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?”
“Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.”
“The monsters of our childhood do not fade away, neither are they ever wholly monstrous. But neither, in my experience, do we ever reach a plane of detachment regarding our parents, however wise and...”
“When the world lacks muscular and wise American leadership, it devolves into total chaos, which, in turn, produces unspeakable evils.”
“A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patien...”
“The foolish man conceives the idea of 'self.' The wise man sees there is no ground on which to build the idea of 'self;' thus, he has a right conception of the world and well concludes that all com...”
