Wise Quotes

The common and continual mischiefs of the spirit of party are sufficient to make it the interest and duty of a wise people to discourage and restrain it.

Our people expect their President and the Congress to find essential agreement on issues of great moment, the wise resolution of which will better shape the future of the Nation.

For the kind of America in which we believe is too strong ever to acknowledge fear and too wise ever to fear knowledge. This is the kind of America - and the kind of Republican Party - in which I believe.

Neither a wise man or a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.

I hope the time is not far off when I shall be able to unite all the wise and educated men of all the countries and establish a uniform regime based on the principles of the Quran which alone are true and which alone can lead men to happiness.

The stupid speak of the past, the wise of the present, and fools of the future.

Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools. Wise people create opportunities for themselves and make everything possible.

A wise Government seeks to provide the opportunity through which the best of individual achievement can be obtained, while at the same time it seeks to remove such obstruction, such unfairness as springs from selfish human motives.

No wise man has any intention of destroying what is known as the profit motive; because by the profit motive we mean the right by work to earn a decent livelihood for ourselves and for our families.

Wise and prudent men - intelligent conservatives - have long known that in a changing world worthy institutions can be conserved only by adjusting them to the changing time.

It is wise to persuade people to do things and make them think it was their own idea.

Fools multiply when wise men are silent.

It is sometimes wise to allow natural processes to work, and crimes and follies to be paid in coin from their own mint.

It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look further than you can see.

How little can we foresee the consequences either of wise or unwise action, of virtue or of malice. Without this measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of human life would be destroyed.

When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.

Everyone can recognize history when it happens. Everyone can recognize history after is has happened; but only the wise man knows at the moment what is vital and permanent, what is lasting and memorable.

But on the whole it is wise in human affairs, and in the government of men, to separate pomp from power.

I do not admire people who are wise after the event. I would rather be impaled on the other horn of the dilemma and be called one of the "I told you so's."

Don't you think it's sometimes wise not to grow up.