Wise Man Quotes
557 quotes by 357 authors
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The non-action of the wise man is not inaction. It is not studied. It is not shaken by anything. The sage is quiet because he…
— Zhuangzi
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The silence of a wise man is always meaningful.
— Leo Strauss
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Who then is free? The wise man who can govern himself.
— Horace
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The wise man bridges the gap by laying out the path by means of which he can get from where he is to where he…
— J. P. Morgan
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The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.
— Herbert Spencer
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A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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Now, blessings light on him that first invented sleep!Ê It covers a man all over, thoughts and all, like a cloak; it is meat for…
— Miguel de Cervantes
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The wise man, the true friend, the finished character, we seek everywhere, and only find in fragments.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The wise man always throws himself on the side of his assailants. It is more his interest than it is theirs to find his weak…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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There are more fools than wise men, and even in a wise man there is more folly than wisdom.
— Nicolas Chamfort
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Fortune seldom troubles the wise man. Reason has controlled his greatest and most important affairs, controls them throughout his life, and will continue to control…
— Epicurus
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If you expect the wise man to be as angry as the baseness of crimes requires, then he must not only be angry but go…
— Seneca the Younger
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Where does a wise man kick a pebble? On the beach. Where does a wise man hide a leaf? In the forest.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.
— John Churton Collins
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A wise man will desire no more than what he may get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contently.
— Benjamin Franklin
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The wise man sees in the misfortune of others what he should avoid.
— Marcus Aurelius
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The wise man, after learning something new, is afraid to learn anything more until he has put his first lesson into practice.
— Laozi
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The wise man knows that it is better to sit on the banks of a remote mountain stream than to be emperor of the whole…
— Zhuangzi
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He is no wise man who will quit a certainty for an uncertainty.
— Samuel Johnson
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It takes a wise man to handle a lie, a fool had better remain honest.
— Norman Douglas
Who Wrote These Wise Man Quotes
357 authors contributed a total of 557 Wise Man Quotes, led by these top contributors: