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“Plays round the head, but comes not to the heart. One self-approving hour whole years outweighs Of stupid starers and of loud huzzas; And more true joy Marcellus exil'd feels Than Cæsar with a senate at his heels. In parts superior what advantage lies? Tell (for you can) what is it to be wise? 'T is but to know how little can be known; To see all others' faults, and feel our own.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Who combats bravely is not therefore brave, He dreads a death-bed like the meanest slave: Who reasons wisely is not therefore wise,-- His pride in reasoning, not in acting lies.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Coffee, which makes the politician wise, And see through all things with his half-shut eyes.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Words that wise Bacon or brave Raleigh spoke.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Chiefs who no more in bloody fights engage, But wise through time, and narrative with age, In summer-days like grasshoppers rejoice,-- A bloodless race, that send a feeble voice.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“It is not strength, but art, obtains the prize, And to be swift is less than to be wise. 'T is more by art than force of num'rous strokes.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Fly, dotard, fly! With thy wise dreams and fables of the sky.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“For never, never, wicked man was wise.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Wise to resolve, and patient to perform.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“And wine can of their wits the wise beguile, Make the sage frolic, and the serious smile.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Early to bed and early to rise, Makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.”
Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790) said by 1790 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Of Dr. Goldsmith he said, "No man was more foolish when he had not a pen in his hand, or more wise when he had.”
Samuel Johnson (1709–1784) said by 1784 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“To each his suff'rings; all are men, Condemn'd alike to groan,-- The tender for another's pain, Th' unfeeling for his own. Yet ah! why should they know their fate, Since sorrow never comes too late, And happiness too swiftly flies? Thought would destroy their paradise. No more; where ignorance is bliss, 'T is folly to be wise.”
Thomas Gray (1716–1771) said by 1771 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“When love could teach a monarch to be wise, And gospel-light first dawn'd from Bullen's eyes. Too poor for a bribe, and too proud to importune; He had not the method of making a fortune.”
Thomas Gray (1716–1771) said by 1771 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“A wise and salutary neglect.”
Edmund Burke (1729–1797) said by 1797 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“But war 's a game which were their subjects wise Kings would not play at.”
William Cowper (1731–1800) said by 1800 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“I love tranquil solitude And such society As is quiet, wise, and good.”
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) said by 1822 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Curse away! And let me tell thee, Beausant, a wise proverb The Arabs have,--"Curses are like young chickens, And still come home to roost.”
Edward Bulwer Lytton (1805–1873) said by 1873 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“A wise scepticism is the first attribute of a good critic.”
James Russell Lowell (1819–1891) said by 1891 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“I would far rather be ignorant than wise in the foreboding of evil.”
Theognis (570–490 BC) said by 490 BC at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“A wise player ought to accept his throws and score them, not bewail his luck.”
Sophocles (496–406 BC) said by 406 BC at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“This is a wise maxim, "to take warning from others of what may be to your own advantage.”
Terence (185–159 BC) said by 159 BC at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“In peace, as a wise man, he should make suitable preparation for war.”
Horace (65–8 BC) said by 8 BC at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“A god could hardly love and be wise.”
Publius Syrus (active around 42 BC) bartlett, Public domain source
“A wise man never refuses anything to necessity.”
Publius Syrus (active around 42 BC) bartlett, Public domain source
“He bids fair to grow wise who has discovered that he is not so.”
Publius Syrus (active around 42 BC) bartlett, Public domain source
“'T is a wise saying, Drive on your own track.”
Plutarch (40–120) said by 120 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Euripides was wont to say, "Silence is an answer to a wise man.”
Plutarch (40–120) said by 120 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“For to err in opinion, though it be not the part of wise men, is at least human.”
Plutarch (40–120) said by 120 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Appearances to the mind are of four kinds. Things either are what they appear to be; or they neither are, nor appear to be; or they are, and do not appear to be; or they are not, and yet appear to be. Rightly to aim in all these cases is the wise man's task.”
Plutarch (40–120) said by 120 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“It is the part of a wise man to keep himself to-day for to-morrow, and not to venture all his eggs in one basket.”
Miguel De Cervantes (1547–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Time ripens all things. No man is born wise.”
Miguel De Cervantes (1547–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“He taketh the wise in their own craftiness.”
The Bible (active around 812) bartlett, Public domain source
“Great men are not always wise.”
The Bible (active around 812) bartlett, Public domain source
“Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise.”
The Bible (active around 812) bartlett, Public domain source
“A wise son maketh a glad father.”
The Bible (active around 812) bartlett, Public domain source
“A wise man is strong; yea, a man of knowledge increaseth strength.”
The Bible (active around 812) bartlett, Public domain source
“The words of the wise are as goads, and as nails fastened by the masters of assemblies.”
The Bible (active around 812) bartlett, Public domain source
“Be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.”
The Bible (active around 812) bartlett, Public domain source
“Be not wise in your own conceits.”
The Bible (active around 812) bartlett, Public domain source
“God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things that are mighty.”
The Bible (active around 812) bartlett, Public domain source
“Books give not wisdom where was none before, But where some is, there reading makes it more.”
John Harington (writer) first seen 1737 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Epigram in Muses Library (1737), p. 310.
“'Tis thou alone who, with thy mystic fan, Work'st more than wisdom, art, or nature can To rouse the sacred madness and awake The frost-bound blood and spirits, and to make Them frantic with thy raptures flashing through The soul like lightning, and as active too.”
Robert Herrick (poet) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Of nothing comes nothing: springs rise not above Their source in the far-hidden heart of the mountains: Whence then have descended the Wisdom and Love That in man leap to light in intelligent fountains?”
John Townsend Trowbridge (1827–1916) said by 1916 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If thou couldst trust, poor soul! In Him who rules the whole, Thou wouldst find peace and rest; Wisdom and sight are well, but trust is best.”
Adelaide Anne Procter (1825–1864) said by 1864 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Press on! If Fortune play thee false To-day, tomorrow she'll be true; Whom now she sinks she now exalts, Taking old gifts and granting new, The wisdom of the present hour Makes up the follies past and gone; To weakness, strength succeeds, and power From frailty springs! Press on, press on!”
Park Benjamin Sr. (1809–1864) said by 1864 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The delusion of having wisdom creates the dangerous delusion of having power, leading to disaster.”
Vernon Howard (1918–1992) said by 1992 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“...and for human beings on this planet it isn't wisdom that guides, it's wants.”
Guy Finley (born 1949) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Life on the earth is a school of Wisdom and Realisation of the Self. God is the unseen Teacher who through His great sons, through Nature herself, teaches man the secret and source of the attainment of Life Immortal. Thus, life abounds in lessons. He who heeds them, heeds towards freedom and Light; he who neglects, dooms himself: in darkness in which the world to-day is steeped.”
Swami Sivananda (1887–1963) said by 1963 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source