He who can properly summarize many ideas in a brief…

I have barely time to give you a brief statement of facts as I find them.

— John White Geary

Give a wise man an honest brief to plead and his eloquence is no remarkable achievement.

— Euripides

It is the wise man's part to leave in darkness everything that is ugly.

— Euripides

Always win fools first. They talk much, and what they have once uttered they will stick to; whereas there is always time, up to…

— Arthur Helps

It is better to be nothing than a follower of other painters. The wise man has said when one follows another one is always…

— Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot

The malady of civilized man is his knowledge of death. The good artist, like the wise man, addresses himself to life and invests with…

— Gore Vidal

The community has no bribe that will tempt a wise man.

— Henry David Thoreau

Only fools use their mouth to speak. A smart man uses his brain, and a wise man uses his heart.

— Jack Ma

Ale is meat, drink and cloth; it will make a cat speak and a wise man dumb.

— Jonathan Swift

The wise man does not permit himself to set up even in his own mind any comparisons of his friends. His friendship is capable…

— Charles Dudley Warner

A wise man listens no matter how stupidly someone is

— Anonymous

“You are what you believe”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

“He was a wise man who invented God.”

— Plato

“A wise man once said nothing.”

— Anonymous

When Eudæmonidas heard a philosopher arguing that only a wise man can be a good general, "This is a wonderful speech," said he; "but…

— Plutarch