Top 1200 Wise Proverbs Quotes & Sayings

Many of the historical proverbs have a doubtful paternity.

Far best is he who is himself all-wise, and he, too, good who listens to wise words; But whoso is not wise or lays to hear another's wisdom is a useless man.

My favorite book in the Bible is always Proverbs because it's where you can find wisdom for no matter what you're going through. It hits me every time I read it. I've always read Proverbs regularly because it helps me deal with what's happening every day in real life.

Patch grief with proverbs.

Wise kings generally have wise counselors; and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one.

Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.

We have been counseled to "seek . . . out of the best books words of wisdom." It is pointed out in Proverbs, "Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom." (Proverbs 4:7.) But in getting wisdom and getting knowledge, above all we should "get understanding." It is important to learn a profession, learn a trade. That applies not only to the young men, but it applies to you young women as well. You girls should place yourselves in a position to be self-supporting and independent in the event that tragedy or an emergency comes, for emergencies have come and will continue to come.

I'm always looking for ways to explore the politics of the everyday. For me, the proverbs were a way of bringing in this ancient wisdom that in Arabic culture is often quoted. Those proverbs are such a huge part of the language and parts of people's every day. This is the wisdom that we use in our everyday life but we're not always listening to.

Proverbs were bright shafts in the Greek and Latin quivers.

Proverbs are, for the most part, rules of morals, and as such are often effective.

Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise.

The wise men of old have sent most of their morality down the stream of time in the light skiff of apothegm or epigram; and the proverbs of nations, which embody the commonsense of nations, have the brisk concussion of the most sparkling wit.

Sadly, God mentions no crowned nags in Proverbs.

Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.

I like the old wisdom--puns, riddles, spells, proverbs.

Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.

I quit being a VS model to be a Proverbs 31 wife.

The wisdom of nations lies in their proverbs, which are brief and pithy.

Proverbs should be sold in pairs, a single one being but a half truth.

In Proverbs we read: 'He that winneth souls is wise.' If any man, women, or child by a godly life and example can win one soul to God, his life will not have been a failure. He will have outshone all the mighty men of his day, because he will have set a stream in motion that will flow on and on forever and ever.

Witty inspirations are the proverbs of the educated.

All a Jew has to do is recite a few proverbs or anecdotes to consider himself an expert on 'Jewishness.'

I always think it is kind of funny when it comes to wisdom, and I say God has a sense of humor, because my middle name is Solomon, and I love the Book of Proverbs which is written by Solomon, and I have read from the Book of Proverbs to start and end every day since I was 14.

I got so tired of hearing those proverbs when I was a child. Now I use them all the time. Sometimes they are the best way to say what needs to be said. I teach them to my students. I have a collection of proverbs for class discussion and writing assignments.

Proverbs, like the sacred books of each nation, are the sanctuary of the intuitions. That which the droning world, chained to appearances, will not allow the realist to say in his own words, it will suffer him to say in proverbs without contradiction.

The wise make proverbs, and fools repeat them.

Proverbs may be said to be the abridgment of wisdom.

A wise quote can only change a wise man! Therefore, wise sayings are for the wise men, not for the fools! The sunflowers turn their face toward the Sun, the fools, toward the darkness!

Proverbs, and the wisdom literature in general, counter the idea that being spiritual means handing all decisions over to the leading of the Lord. The opposite is true. Proverbs reveals that God does not make all people’s decisions for them, but rather expects them to use his gift of reason to interpret the circumstances and events of life within the framework of revelation that he has given. Yet when they have exercised their responsibility in decision-making, they can look back and see that the sovereign God has guided.

One of my favorite Japanese proverbs is "Fall down 7 times, stand up 8".

There is a lot of territory out there still to explore TV-wise, show-wise, movie-wise, everything.

I'm very positive - music-wise, production-wise and life-wise.

The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.

Cato used to assert that wise men profited more by fools than fools by wise men; for that wise men avoided the faults of fools, but that fools would not imitate the good examples of wise men.

The wise man is wise in vain who cannot be wise to his own advantage. [Lat., Nequicquam sapere sapientem, qui ipse sibi prodesse non quiret.]

He that writeth in blood and proverbs doth not want to be read, but learnt by heart.

Much has seen said of the wisdom of old age. Old age is wise, I grant, for itself, but not wise for the community. It is wise in declining new enterprises, for it has not the power nor the time to execute them; wise in shrinking from difficulty, for it has not the strength to overcome it; wise in avoiding danger, for it lacks the faculty of ready and swift action, by which dangers are parried and converted into advantages. But this is not wisdom for mankind at large, by whom new enterprises must be undertaken, dangers met, and difficulties surmounted.

Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

Proverbs embody the current and practical philosophy of an age or nation.

Proverbs 31 is God's definition of Evelyn Roberts.

He mocks proud mockers but gives grace to the humble. from the Book of Proverbs

It is ignorance that is at times incomprehensible to the wise; for instance, he may not see 'the positive person' or 'the negative person' in a black and white way as many people do. A wise man may not understand it because, as a catalyst of wisdom, but not wise in his own eyes, even he can learn from and give back to fools. To think that an individual has absolutely nothing to offer to the table is counter-intuitively what the wise man considers to be 'the ignorance of hopelessness'.

Those that cannot produce ideas often speak with the old proverbs!

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations.

He that winneth souls is wise (Proverbs 11:30) - Those are the best educated ministers, who win the most souls.

The strength of Ray Ortlund's study of Proverbs is its Christ-centeredness. The wisdom of Proverbs loses none of its practical value, but rather is given its ultimate fulfillment as an expression of the wisdom of Christ.

We are the wise. Do not envy us— We who are too wise to draw near the fire Lest we get burned; We who are too wise to love Lest love should vanish and we be hurt. We are the wise. Do not envy us our wisdom— We who are too wise to live Lest we should die.

Proverbs may not improperly be called the philosophy of the common people.

Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond districts of the mind.

Whoever would be wise should read the Proverbs; whoever would be holy should read the Psalms.

Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond fields of the mind.

Proverbs contradict each other. That is the wisdom of a nation.

Proverbs are potted wisdom.

I find that with period pieces, you're sort of able to really take advantage of what's around you because prop-wise, wardrobe-wise and location-wise, it's all so specific due to that time.

Poets are like proverbs: you can always find one to contradict another.

Gnomic wisdom, however, is notoriously polychrome, and proverbs depend for their truth entirely on the occasion they are applied to. Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.

I was born wise. Street-wise, people-wise, self-wise. This wisdom was my birthright.

If you want to follow some good steps, it would Proverbs, all over.

Be wise, because the world needs more wisdom. And if you cannot be wise, pretend to be someone who is wise, and then just behave like they would.

[Proverbs] are short sayings made out of long experience.