Famous quotes containing the word wise:
“If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one, but the wise man is foolish to give them the lie.”
—W. Somerset Maugham (1874–1966)
“Big heart,
wide as a watermelon,
but wise as birth,
there is so much abundance
in the people I have....”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)
“Every human being has, like Socrates, an attendant spirit; and wise are they who obey its signals. If it does not always tell us what to do, it always cautions us what not to do.”
—Lydia M. Child (1802–1880)