Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go. — Jean de La Fontaine Copy Share Image
A wise man once told me if you're a man of your word, and you're smart, you don't say much. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Only a fool learns from his own mistakes. The wise man learns from the mistakes of others. — Otto von Bismarck Copy Share Image
The wise man will always reflect concerning the quality not the quantity of life. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
A wise man once said that you don't get rich at work. You get rich by doing your homework. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The fool's crime is the crime that is found out and the wise man's crime is the crime that is not found… — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
“Cardinal: You are a wise man. You will lead us well. Mortati: I am an old man. I would lead you briefly.” — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
Any one can give advice, such as it is, but only a wise man knows how to profit by it. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
When I was a boy, my own dad told me in a smiling and wistful way that it's a wise man that… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
I forget who it was that recommended men for their soul's good to do each day two things they disliked: it was… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
The foolish man conceives the idea of 'self.' The wise man sees there is no ground on which to build the idea… — Buddha Copy Share Image
“You want the light shine on you or you want to be the light itself? You want to get wisdom from a… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
One great difference between a wise man and a fool is, the former only wishes for what he may possibly obtain; the… — Democritus Copy Share Image
The wise man should keep the balance between love and power; he should keep the love in his nature ever increasing and… — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
“I am not a ‘wise man,’ nor . . . shall I ever be. And so require not from me that I… — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Copy Share Image
In common discourse we denominate persons and things according to the major part of their character; he is to be called a… — Isaac Watts Copy Share Image
“I've heard two ways of looking at it. One says the silent man is the wise man & the other that a… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
The malady of civilized man is his knowledge of death. The good artist, like the wise man, addresses himself to life and… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
“In old England the greatest lords think it great glory to be slapped by a queen, and made garter-knights of; but, be… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Everybody, one day will die, and be forgetton. Act and behave in a way that will make life interesting and fun, fuck… — Zyzz Copy Share Image
We find that at present the human race is divided politically into one wise man, nine knaves, and ninety fools out of… — T. H. White Copy Share Image
“Geologists search for the meaning to be read into the piled-up strata of the earth much as a historian might turn the… — Henry Eyring Copy Share Image
“There is no man, however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or even lived in a… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Not only were the Jews expecting the birth of a Great King, a Wise Man and a Saviour, but Plato and Socrates… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
At this time there was a wise man who was called Jesus. And his conduct was good, and [he] was known to… — Josephus Copy Share Image
The wise man will say I don't know and the unknowing fool will answer. — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image