Wise men read very sharply all of your private history in your look and gait and behavior. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“You cannot skip the beginning and hope to reach the end. You will fall as soon as you get there” — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
The fewer blows, the better. Brave men fight if they must; wise men never fight if they can help it. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
“My lord, wise men ne’er wail their present woes, But presently prevent the ways to wail.174” — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“You can have some, but not all. Wanting to have it all is a sure recipe for disaster” — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Too austere a philosophy makes few wise men; too rigorous politics, few good subjects; too hard a religion, few persons whose devotion… — Charles De Saint-Evremond Copy Share Image
There's a strange something, which without a brain Fools feel, and which e'en wise men can't explain, Planted in man, to bind… — Charles Churchill Copy Share Image
We are placed in the genus of Homo, which is Latin for man - Homo sapiens: supposedly wise men. I sometimes think… — Donald Johanson Copy Share Image
There was no division I could see between the essential teaching of all Prophets and wise men of religion. — Cat Stevens Copy Share Image
“Again, it is for the sake of the soul that goods external and goods of the body are eligible at all, and… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Rivers and the inhabitants of the watery elements are made for wise men to contemplate and for fools to pass by without… — Izaak Walton Copy Share Image
“A good man can be destroyed by the association with men of evil character. A wise man can learn from them” — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
Even the wisest men make fools of themselves about women, and even the most foolish women are wise about men — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One rabbi compared wise men studying the law to children tossing a ball to one another: a first sage said the meaning… — Israel Shenker Copy Share Image
The Bible is to us what the star was to the wise men; but if we spend all our time in gazing… — Thomas Adams Copy Share Image
“Wise men never grow up, because the spirit of youthfulness is a bed fellow of optimism that is the only reality in… — Qamar Rafiq Copy Share Image
Good men and bad men differ radically. Bad men never appreciate kindness shown them, but wise men appreciate and are grateful. Wise… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“But so long as power remains by itself on one side, and enlightenment and wisdom isolated on the other, wise men will… — Jean Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
This fellow is wise enough to play the fool; And to do that well craves a kind of wit: He must observe… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Jasnah raised an eyebrow. “You will find wise men in any religion, Shallan, and good men in every nation. Those who truly… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
“This mundus tenebrosus, this shaddowy world of Mankind, is sunk into Night; there is not a Field without its Spirits, nor a… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
“They wonder much to hear that gold which in itself is so useless a thing, should be everywhere so much esteemed, that… — Thomas More Copy Share Image
“The good must be clearly good but not wholly clear. If it is wholly clear it is too easy to reject. What… — Walter Kaufmann Copy Share Image
“He read me another poem, and another one - and he explained the true history of poetry, which is a kind of… — Aravind Adiga Copy Share Image
“And then there's another snag you keep coming across: such decent and sensible people keep appearing in life, such wise men, and… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Wise men have regarded the earth as a tragedy, a farce, even an illusionist's trick; but all, if they are truly wise,… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
“The magi, as you know, were wise men — wonderfully wise men — who brought gifts to the Babe in the manger.… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“But one thing could not happen; it could not be that great and wise men of exalted soul who would raise lasting… — Ivo Andrić Copy Share Image
The good Education of Youth has been esteemed by wise Men in all Ages, as the surest Foundation of the Happiness both… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
