Wise quotes

“Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.” Blaise Pascal

“The commander in the field is always right and the rear echelon is wrong, unless proved otherwise.” Colin Powell

“Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.” Theodore Roosevelt

“Forgotten is forgiven.” Francis Scott Fitzgerald

“My idea is always to reach my generation. The wise writer writes for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmasters of ever afterward.” Francis Scott Fitzgerald

“The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.” Milton Friedman

“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” Anne Frank

“Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.” Anne Frank

“If I read a book that impresses me, I have to take myself firmly by the hand, before I mix with other people; otherwise they would think my mind rather queer.” Anne Frank

“I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.” Marlene Dietrich

“The weak are more likely to make the strong weak than the strong are likely to make the weak strong.” Marlene Dietrich

“I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted.” Frederick Douglass

“If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.” Princess Diana

“An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.” Charles Darwin

“Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.” Ellen DeGeneres

“The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.” Bertrand Russell

“A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones that need the advice.” Bill Cosby

“A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.” William Blake

“The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.” William Blake

“The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.” William Blake

“If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise.” William Blake

“It is impossible to love and to be wise.” Francis Bacon

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

“Wise men make more opportunities than they find.” Francis Bacon

“Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.” Francis Bacon

“The great end of life is not knowledge but action.” Francis Bacon

“Acorns were good until bread was found.” Francis Bacon

“There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.” Francis Bacon

“This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.” Francis Bacon

“Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people.” John Rockefeller