Wise Man Quotes
557 Wise Man quotes by 357 unique authors
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A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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The greatest misfortune of the wise man and the greatest unhappiness of the fool are based upon convention.
— Franz Schubert
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A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.
— William Shakespeare
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The Dalai Lama. He is a very wise man of great inner peace who believes that happiness is the purpose of our lives. Through his…
— Sidney Sheldon
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Life is a pilgrimage. The wise man does not rest by the roadside inns. He marches direct to the illimitable domain of eternal bliss, his…
— Sivananda
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A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
— Jonathan Swift
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No wise man ever wished to be younger.
— Jonathan Swift
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All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.
— Henry David Thoreau
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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
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Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
— William Butler Yeats
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The wise man reads both books and life itself.
— Lin Yutang
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A wise man can play the part of a clown, but a clown can't play the part of a wise man.
— Malcolm X
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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
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Any fool can paint a picture, but it takes a wise man to be able to sell it.
— Samuel Butler
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The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.
— Benjamin Franklin
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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
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The busy man is never wise and the wise man is never busy.
— Lin Yutang
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I believe that water is the only drink for a wise man.
— Henry David Thoreau
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The wise man tests before he talks. The critic but follows the fad of a cynical and apathetic age.
— L. Ron Hubbard
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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
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