Wise men Quotes

“Fools talk, cowards silence , wise men listen”

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

The wise men were all fools, what to do?

— Bruce Springsteen

Fools rush in where wise men fear to trade.

— Laurence J. Peter

Wise men and gods are on the strongest side.

— Sir Charles Sedley, 5th Baronet

Fools give you reasons, wise men never try.

— Oscar Hammerstein II

In all superstition wise men follow fools.

— Francis Bacon

Fools rush in Where wise men never go.

— Johnny Mercer

Fools make feasts and wise men eat them.

— Benjamin Franklin

It is from books that wise men derive consolation in the troubles of life.

— Victor Hugo

May none but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof.

— David McCullough

Wise men say, only fools rush in. Wise men are so slow.

— Bob Saget

If you are wise, all men will be your friends and kindred, for you will be useful.

— Plato

There are more fools than wise men, and even in a wise man there is more folly than wisdom.

— Nicolas Chamfort

Think as wise men do, but speak as the common people do.

— Aristotle

Logical consequences are the scare-crows of fools and the beacons of wise men

— Thomas Henry Huxley

They obeyed, as wise men do when a woman puts her foot down . . .

— Terry Pratchett

Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent.

— Napoleon Hill

Our wise men flattered us into the adoption of the banking system under the idea that boundless wealth would result from the…

— John Tyler

“The wise men know what wicked things are written on the sky; They trim sad lamps, they touch sad strings, hearing the…

— G.K. Chesterton

Rivers and the inhabitants of the watery element were made for wise men to contemplate, and fools to pass by without consideration.

— Izaak Walton

“Well there is only one piece of advice I can give you’ said the wisest of the wise men. ‘The secret of…

— Paulo Coelho

One of the Seven [wise men of Greece] was wont to say: That laws were like cobwebs, where the small flies are…

— Francis Bacon

Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die?... Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But…

— Alan Paton

Though wise men at their end know dark is right, Because their words had forked no lightning they Do not go gentle…

— Dylan Thomas

“Firstly, by learning the great lesson of wise men: patience, the certainty that everything - both good and bad - is provisional…

— Paulo Coelho

The wise men of old have sent most of their morality down the stream of time in the light skiff of apothegm…

— Edwin Percy Whipple

“I thought how true it was that the world was a delightful place if it were not for the people, and how…

— Katherine Mansfield

“The wise men posit questions to which they may not always find immediate answers, but through their reflections God stimulates man in…

— University of Navarre

“True words aren't eloquent; eloquent words aren't true. Wise men don't need to prove their point; men who need to prove their…

— Lao Tzu

“When everyone feels free to tell you the truth, respect for you dwindles… A wise prince should take another course: choose wise…

— Niccolò Machiavelli

The wise men understood that this natural world is only an image and a copy of paradise. The existence of this world…

— Paulo Coelho

But wise men pierce this rotten diction and fasten words again to visible things; so that picturesque language is at once a…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“He had read much of things as they are, and talked with too many people. Well-meaning philosophers had taught him to look…

— Howard Phillips Lovecraft

“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

“Six Wisemen came to Jhaampe-town Climbed a hill, and never came down Found their flesh and lost their skins Flew away on…

— Robin Hobb

“Did you hear about the middle Eastern potentate?" he asked me. "This potentate called a meeting of the wise men in the…

— A.J. Jacobs

The good Education of Youth has been esteemed by wise Men in all Ages, as the surest Foundation of the Happiness both…

— Benjamin Franklin

“But one thing could not happen; it could not be that great and wise men of exalted soul who would raise lasting…

— Ivo Andrić

“The magi, as you know, were wise men — wonderfully wise men — who brought gifts to the Babe in the manger.…

— Charles Dickens

“There was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and…

— Anonymous