Famous Smart Quotes
Knowledge is the treasure of a wise man.
Men are wise in proportion not to their experience but to their capacity for experience.
I am so clever that sometimes don’t understand a single word of what I am saying.
The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.
A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.
Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.
She was sensible and clever, but eager in everything; her sorrows, her joys, could have no moderation.
The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.
Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.
A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.
Be wise with speed . A fool at forty is a fool indeed.
A wise traveler never despises his own country.
He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.
If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour?
Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
It is a wise father that knows his own child.
A word to the wise is enough.
The fool wonders, the wise man asks.
People are getting smarter nowadays; they are letting lawyers, instead of their conscience, be their guide.
Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital. The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket.
No wise man ever wished to be younger.
Clever tyrants are never punished.
Cultivate the habit of early rising. It is unwise to keep the head long on a level with the feet.
One is wise to cultivate the tree that bears fruit in our soul.
I cannot conceive otherwise than that He, the Infinite Father, expects or requires no worship or praise from us, but that He is even infinitely above it.
The good and the wise lead quiet lives.
Indeed, I am very sorry to be right in this instance. I would much rather have been merry than wise.