Famous quotes containing the word wise:
“A wise man can and should stand above his times, not so the poet, but he should be their apex.”
—Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)
“A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.”
—Bible: Hebrew, Proverbs 10:1.
“But the wise know that foolish legislation is a rope of sand, which perishes in the twisting; that the State must follow, and not lead the character and progress of the citizen; the strongest usurper is quickly got rid of; and they only who build on Ideas, build for eternity; and that the form of government which prevails, is the expression of what cultivation exists in the population which permits it.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)