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)
“Sorrow is better than laughter: for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better. The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning: but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth.”
—Bible: Hebrew Ecclesiastes, 7:3-4.
“O wise and upright judge!
How much more elder art thou than thy looks!”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)