Kings may be judges of the earth, but wise men are the judges of kings. — Solomon Ibn Gabirol Copy Share Image
“Words are wise men's counters; they do but reckon by them; but they are the money of fools.” — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
It requires philosophy and heroism to rise above the opinion of the wise men of all nations and races. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
“Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools speak because they have to say something” — Plato Copy Share Image
“Many have been the wise speeches of fools, though not so many as the foolish speeches of wise men.” — Thomas Fuller Copy Share Image
Have you never heard what the wise men say: all of the future exists in the past. — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
Wise men will apply their remedies to vices, not to names; to the causes of evil which are permanent, not the occasional… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
“Some people have the license to sin: Soldiers, to kill; politicians, writers, priests, businessmen, married man and women, to lie; and married… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
“I would rather go through this valley to find the honor that true wise men seek than choose those things that this… — John Bunyan Copy Share Image
Speech was given to the ordinary sort or men, whereby to communicate their mind; but to wise men, whereby to conceal it. — Robert South Copy Share Image
“Crafty men condemn studies; Simple men admire them; And wise men use them: For they teach not their own use: but that… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Major actions by courageous and wise men will be necessary to avoid our continuing to blunder into the space age like unenlightened… — Fritz Zwicky Copy Share Image
“He may seem the fool who has given his all, by the wise men of the world; but it was the apparent… — Patrick Pearse Copy Share Image
In a bowl to sea went wise men three, On a brilliant night of June: They carried a net, and their hearts… — Thomas Love Peacock Copy Share Image
Is it possible Hanukkah doesn't inspire folksy songs? Plot lines may be a part. The Christmas story has a lot of material… — Matisyahu Copy Share Image
Noble and wise men once believed in the music of the spheres: noble and wise men still continue to believe in the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I am old, yet I look at wise men and see that I am very young. I look over those stars yonder,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
THERE are no wise few; for in all men rages the folly of the Fall. Take your strongest, happiest, handsomest, best born,… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“The wise have pitied the fool that hath striven to give a life In the world of time and space among the… — Pádraig Pearse Copy Share Image
Fools measure actions, after they are done, by the event; wise men beforehand, by the rules of reason and right. The former… — Joseph Hall Copy Share Image
“And babes are as capable of knowing these things as the wise and prudent; and they are often hid from these when… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
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 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
“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