Wise Man Quotes

557 Wise Man quotes by 357 unique authors

A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart. — Jonathan Swift
No wise man ever wished to be younger. — Jonathan Swift
All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man. — Henry David Thoreau
The shallow consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise man sees in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of… — Walt Whitman
Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people. — William Butler Yeats
The wise man reads both books and life itself. — Lin Yutang
A wise man can play the part of a clown, but a clown can't play the part of a wise man. — Malcolm X
Each of our passions, even love, has a stomach that must not be overloaded. We must in everything write the word 'finis' in time; we… — Victor Hugo
Any fool can paint a picture, but it takes a wise man to be able to sell it. — Samuel Butler
The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart. — Benjamin Franklin
Whoever can't see the whole in every part plays at blind man's bluff. A wise man tastes the entire Tigris in every sip. — Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib
The busy man is never wise and the wise man is never busy. — Lin Yutang
I believe that water is the only drink for a wise man. — Henry David Thoreau
The wise man tests before he talks. The critic but follows the fad of a cynical and apathetic age. — L. Ron Hubbard
Facts are ventriloquist’s dummies. Sitting on a wise man’s knee they may be made to utter words of wisdom; elsewhere, they say nothing, or talk… — Aldous Huxley
That is the hardest thing of all. It is much harder to judge yourself than to judge others. If you succeed in judging yourself, it's… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
A wise man once remarked that we can count how many seeds are in the apple, but not how many apples are in the seed. — Wendy Mass
Have you never heard what the wise man say : all of the future exists in the past. — Truman Capote
I forget who it was that recommended men for their soul's good to do each day two things they disliked: it was a wise man,… — W. Somerset Maugham
A wise man once said, never discuss philosophy or politics in a disco environment. — Frank Zappa
The Voice There is a voice inside of you That whispers all day long, "I feel this is right for me, I know that this… — Shel Silverstein
To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man. — Aristotle
Therefore, since the world has still Much good, but much less good than ill, And while the sun and moon endure Luck's a chance, but… — A. E. Housman
Even voting for the right is doing nothing for it. It is only expressing to men feebly your desire that it should prevail. A wise… — Henry David Thoreau
Ten thousand fools proclaim themselves into obscurity, while one wise man forgets himself into immortality. — Martin Luther King, Jr.

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