Famous quotes containing the word wise:
“If it is asserted that civilization is a real advance in the condition of man,—and I think that it is, though only the wise improve their advantages,—it must be shown that it has produced better dwellings without making them more costly; and the cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Well, thus we play the fools with the time, and the spirits of
the wise sit in the clouds and mock us.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“Listening not to me but to reason [logos], it is wise to agree that all is one.”
—Heraclitus (c. 535–475 B.C.)