Wise Man Quotes

557 Wise Man quotes by 357 unique authors

The lust of fame is the last that a wise man shakes off. — Tacitus
A wise man may be duped as well as a fool; but the fool publishes the triumph of the deceiver. — Charles Caleb Colton
The wise man, the sage, is hostile to the new. Disabused, he abdicates: that is his form of protest. — Emile M. Cioran
Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. There is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more a man has, the… — Benjamin Franklin
It's the wise man who stays home when he's drunk. — Euripides
Give a wise man an honest brief to plead and his eloquence is no remarkable achievement. — Euripides
The honor paid to a wise man is a great good for those who honor him. — Epicurus
A foolish man tells a woman to stop talking, but a wise man tells her that her mouth is extremely beautiful when her lips are… — Robert Bloch
The only loser who walks away from a wise man is the one who walks away. — Frederick Lenz
A good book is a lighthouse; a wise man is a lighthouse; conscience is a lighthouse; compassion is a lighthouse; science is a lighthouse! They… — Mehmet Murat Ildan
Let there be wealth without tears; enough for the wise man who will ask no further. — Aeschylus
A wise man sings his joy in the closet of his heart. — Tibullus
Say oh wise man how you have come to such knowledge? Because I was never ashamed to confess my ignorance and ask others. — Johann Gottfried Herder
A wise man in China asked his gardener to plant a shrub. The gardener objected that it only flowered once in a hundred years. "In… — John Charles Polanyi
His eyes drifted leisurely back up to my face and he smiled at me appreciatively, "Kelsey, when a man spends time with a beautiful woman,… — Colleen Houck
Sometimes Allah punishes and sometimes men have to do it, and it is a wise man who knows if it's Allah's turn or his own. — Zadie Smith
Wisdom includes not getting angry unnecessarily. The Law ignores trifles and the wise man does, too. — Robert A. Heinlein
Since, therefore, no man is born without faults, and he is esteemed the best whose errors are the least, let the wise man consider everything… — Gerald of Wales
More often than not, in order to find truth, a wise man must suffer the ravings of the insane. There is no undiscovered truth to… — Derek R. Audette
The errors of a wise man are literally more instructive than the truths of a fool. The wise man travels in lofty, far-seeing regions; the… — Thomas Carlyle

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