The wise man lives as long as he ought, not so long as he can. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“We all have a cross to carry but the wise man carries the lightest.” — Tamerlan Kuzgov Copy Share Image
A wise man will be the master of his mind. A fool will be it's slave. — Publilius Syrus Copy Share Image
The words of a wise man's mouth are gracious; but the lips of a fool will swallow up himself. — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
“A wise man—Neil Gaiman—says, “Google can bring you back 100,000 answers. A librarian can bring you back the right one.” — Angela Pepper Copy Share Image
“Talk is free,” said Odd, “but the wise man chooses when to spend his words.” It was something his father used to… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The wise man belongs to all countries, for the home of a great soul is the whole world — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Wrong decisions, Jakob, are never inevitable. A wise man can always turn back from a precipice.” — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital. The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket. — Andrew Carnegie Copy Share Image
“One conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study in a public school.” — The Dragon King of Beijing Copy Share Image
The wise man in the storm prays God not for safety from danger but for deliverance from fear. It is the storm… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
“Let [love] come in. We think we don’t deserve love, we think if we let it in we’ll become to soft. But… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
I care not whether a man is good or evil; all that I care / Is whether he is a wise man… — William Blake Copy Share Image
If you want to make an ordinary man happy, or think that he is happy, give him money, power, flattery, gifts, honours.… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
“I will love to be called a foolish man of peace, than to be named a wise man of war. Show me… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
I could be content that we might procreate like trees, without conjunction, or that we were any way to perpetuate the world… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
A wise man has said: 'Only a Christian can live wholly in the present, for to him the past is pardoned and… — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share Image
“You are a wise man, Major, and I will consider your advice with great care—and humility." He finished his tea and rose… — Helen Simonson Copy Share Image
[Heraclitus] did not require humans or their sort of knowledge, since everything into which one may inquire he despises [as being] in… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“There was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Lesson in life: A wise man sat in the audience and cracked a joke. Everybody laughs like crazy. After a moment, he… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Bombino's a super modest guy, very nice. His whole crew is a bunch of characters and he's definitely the Grand Poobah. I… — Dan Auerbach Copy Share Image
“The soul is no traveller; the wise man stays at home, and when his necessities, his duties, on any occasion call him… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“a wise man should always enter those paths trodden by great men, and imitate those who have been most excellent, so that… — Niccolò Machiavelli Copy Share Image
“Fanaticism is the opposite of love,’ I said, recalling one of Khaderbhai’s lectures. A wise man once told me—he’s a Muslim, by… — Gregory David Roberts Copy Share Image
A wise man heedeth all things, and in his own eyes is a fool. — Martin Farquhar Tupper Copy Share Image