Famous quotes containing the word wise:
“O wise and upright judge!
How much more elder art thou than thy looks!”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“The wise in every age conclude,
What Pyrrho taught and Hume renewed,
That dogmatists are fools.”
—Thomas Blacklock (1721–1791)
“Go where he will, the wise man is at home,
His hearth the earth,—his hall the azure dome;
Where his clear spirit leads him, there’s his road,
By God’s own light illumined and foreshadowed.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)