Nothing is more like a wise man than a fool who holds his tongue. — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
Intellectual is a parrot; wise man is a crow. One is repetitive; other is creative! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
A wise man builds a relationship with love and respect. A foolish man tears it down with his words. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“... wisdom cannot be passed on. Wisdom which a wise man tries to pass on to someone always sounds like foolishness.” — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
A wise man who has the moment in his hand should not let that moment slip. — Louis Farrakhan Copy Share Image
We cannot advance without new experiments in living, but no wise man tries every day what he has proved wrong the day… — James Truslow Adams Copy Share Image
It is said that only a fool learns from his own mistakes, a wise man from the mistakes of others. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
With children use force; with men reason; such is the natural order of things. The wise man requires no law. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
The wise man is but a clever infant, spelling letters from a hieroglyphical prophetic book, the lexicon of which lies in eternity. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Only a fool is interested in other people's guilt, since he cannot alter it. The wise man learns only from his own… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
“A wise man ought always to follow the paths beaten by great men, and to imitate those who have been supreme, so… — W.K. Marriott Copy Share Image
To educate the wise man, the State exists; and with the appearance of the wise man, the State expires. The appearance of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Ask a wise man to dinner and he'll upset everyone by his gloomy silence or tiresome questions. Invite him to a dance… — Desiderius Erasmus Copy Share Image
The wise man realistically accepts as part of life and builds a philosophy to meet them and make the most of them.… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
“the wise man is self-sufficient, that he can do without friends, not that he desires to do without them. When I say… — Seneca Copy Share Image
But for the wise, it says in the Bible: when a wise man hears wisdom, he reacts. When a fool hears it,… — RZA Copy Share Image
“HOW COULD anything originate out of its opposite? For example, truth out of error? or the Will to Truth out of the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“The tension between religion and science is an old problem. In the fourth century, Christians and scientists were deadlocked over the matter… — Ronald W. Dworkin Copy Share Image
The best-informed man is not necessarily the wisest. Indeed there is a danger that precisely in the multiplicity of his knowledge he… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“There is no escape. You can't be a vagabond and an artist and still be a solid citizen, a wholesome, upstanding man.… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
If the way which I have pointed out as leading to this result (i.e., power over the emotions by which the wise… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
“He was an old Drag man with his bit getting short. He was the first to attempt to teach me to control… — Iceberg Slim Copy Share Image
“Leaving Things Alone (excerpt) The wise man, then, when he must govern, knows how to do nothing. Letting things alone, he rests… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“use words that fit the context, to learn when to use high-flown language and when to use down-home words, and generally quit… — Kory Stamper Copy Share Image
“The little Otak was hiding in the rafters of the house, as it did when strangers entered. There it stayed while the… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
The way of a fool seems right to him, but a wise man listens to advice. — Karen Kingsbury Copy Share Image
When an argument flares up, the wise man quenches it with silence — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“keeping one’s distance from an ignorant person is equivalent to keeping company with a wise man.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A wise man once told me, if we were all fatter we would be closer together!.. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The wise man beholds all beings in the Self and the Self in all beings; for that reason he does not hate… — Isa Upanishad Copy Share Image
A wise man who stands firm is a statesman, a foolish man who stands firm is a catastrophe. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
