Wise

Famous quotes containing the word wise:

“A wise doctor does not mutter incantations over a sore that needs the knife.”
—Sophocles (497–406/5 B.C.)

“To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself.”
—Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881)

“A wise man hears one word and understands two.”
—Yiddish proverb.