Wise Man Quotes

557 Wise Man quotes by 357 unique authors

The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can… — Euripides
Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go. — Jean de La Fontaine
Mr. Steven Bochco is a very wise man. After a many-monthed nationwide search to find a precocious teenage doctor, he hired me. — Neil Patrick Harris
The wise man regulates his conduct by the theories both of religion and science. But he regards these theories not as statements of ultimate fact… — John B. S. Haldane
It is not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse. — William Hazlitt
There is no one thoroughly despicable. We cannot descend much lower than an idiot; and an idiot has some advantages over a wise man. — William Hazlitt
The conqueror is regarded with awe; the wise man commands our respect; but it is only the benevolent man that wins our affection. — William Dean Howells
The wise man does not grow old, but ripens. — Victor Hugo
A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence. — David Hume
The only question which any wise man can ask himself, and which any honest man will ask himself, is whether a doctrine is true or… — Thomas Huxley
A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in… — Samuel Johnson
A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him. — Samuel Johnson
A wise man fights to win, but he is twice a fool who has no plan for possible defeat. — Louis L'Amour
A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer. — Bruce Lee
The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions. — Claude Levi-Strauss
A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The wise man does at once what the fool does finally. — Niccolo Machiavelli
A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation. — Moliere
A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself. — Michel de Montaigne
A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion. — Grantland Rice

Who Wrote These Wise Man Quotes

357 authors contributed a total of 557 Wise Man Quotes, led by these top contributors: