All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Animals feed themselves; men eat; but only wise men know the art of eating — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Copy Share Image
Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men. — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Wise men appreciate all men, for they see the good in each and know how hard it is to make anything good. — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
Oppression makes wise men mad; but the distemper is still the madness of the wise, which is better than the sobriety of… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Great deeds give choice of many tales. Choose a slight tale, enrich it large, and then let wise men listen — Pindar Copy Share Image
“Yes! Practice-singular!' the wise men screamed in unison. Three index fingers, like punctuation marks, jumped to attention in the air to emphasize… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
The wise men of old have sent most of their morality down the stream of time in the light skiff of apothegm… — Edwin P Whipple Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, the miracles of my life were the Resurrection, a candlelight service on New Year's Eve, the Virgin… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
Even the severed branch grows again, and the sunken moon returns: wise men who ponder this are not troubled in adversity. — Bhartrhari Copy Share Image
Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Develop what you have. Project it to the world. God will put a star up there on you. Then the wise men… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon by them: but they are the money of fools, that value them by… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
“Among other possibilities, money was invented to make it possible for a foolish man to control wise men; a weak man, strong… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“There are many men who deserve to die, but they live. I can’t see the end, the purpose. Even wise men can’t.… — Cate Campbell Beatty Copy Share Image
Man has but little heeded the advice of the wise men. He has been - fatefully, if not willingly - less virtuous,… — Ralph Bunche Copy Share Image
Rich men are to bear the infirmities of the poor. Wise men are to bear the mistakes of the ignorant. Strong men… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
The example of changing a constitution by assembling the wise men of the state, instead of assembling armies, will be worth as… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Those wise men knew God to be in things, and Divinity to be latent in Nature, working and glowing differently in different… — Giordano Bruno Copy Share Image
“You shall see rude and sturdy, experienced and wise men, keeping their castles, or teaming up their summer’s wood, or chopping alone… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
What I build upon I shall be told is a folly that wise men are not guilty of: I own it; but… — Sylvester Graham Copy Share Image
“And it did certainly appear that the prophets had put the people (engaged in the old game of Cheat the Prophet) in… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“In the first ages they were wise men; in the middle age, madmen; in these latter ages, cunning men: in the earliest… — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
You must not say that this cannot be, or that that is contrary to nature. You do not know what Nature is,… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
“Plato taught us that, “Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.” The sages… — Bohdi Sanders Copy Share Image
“Who indeed knows the secret of the earthly pilgrimage? Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die? Who knows what… — Alan Paton Copy Share Image
“It is not all books that are as dull as their readers. There are probably words addressed to our condition exactly, which,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
