Famous quotes containing the word wise:
“Wisdom is like electricity. There is no permanently wise man, but men capable of wisdom, who, being put into certain company, or other favorable conditions, become wise for a short time, as glasses rubbed acquire electric power for a while.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Even a wise person can be wrong one time in a thousand.”
—Chinese proverb.
“A wise child makes a glad father, but a foolish child is a mother’s grief.”
—Bible: Hebrew, Proverbs 10:1.