Wise Man Quotes

557 Wise Man quotes by 357 unique authors

The wise man will want to be ever with him who is better than himself. — Plato
In honesty you have to admit to a wise man that prayer is not for the wise, not for the prudent, not for the sophisticated.… — Frederick Buechner
Do not use your energy except for a cause more noble than yourself. Such a cause cannot be found except in Almighty God Himself: to… — Ibn Hazm
Three things a wise man will not trust, The wind, the sunshine of an April day, And woman's plighted faith. — Robert Southey
The sot drinks, and is drunken: the coward drinks not, and shivers: the wise man, brave and free, drinks, and gives glory to the Most… — Aleister Crowley
The Wise Man is square but not sharp, honest but not not malign, straight but not severe, bright but not dazzling. — Laozi
The only thing history teaches us, a wise man once said, is that history doesnâ€™t teach us anything. — Michael Lewis
To comprehend a man's life, it is necessary to know not merely what he does but also what he purposely leaves undone. There is a… — John Hall Gladstone
A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks. — Heinrich Heine
Go where he will, the wise man is at home, His hearth the earth, his hall the azure dome. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Machiavel, discoursing on these matters, finds virtue to be so essentially necessary to the establishment and preservation of liberty, that he thinks it impossible for… — Algernon Sidney
A fool will study for twenty or thirty years and learn how to do something, but a wise man will study for twenty or thirty… — Barry Hughart
Every wise man lives in an observatory. — Augustus William Hare
The wise man looks back into the past, and does not grieve over what is far off, nor rejoice over what is near; for he… — Laozi
When a king speaks, the armies move. But when a wise man speaks, only the beard shakes. — Vinoba Bhave
When it's time to get dressed, put on your clothes. When you must walk, then walk. When you must sit, then sit. Just be your… — Linji Yixuan
He who seeks wisdom is a wise man; he who thinks he has found it is mad. — Seneca the Younger
God has bestowed upon you intelligence and knowledge. Do not extinguish the lamp of Divine Grace and do not let the candle of wisdom die… — Khalil Gibran
The wise man can pick up a grain of sand and envision a whole universe. But the stupid man will just lay down on some… — Jack Handey
The wise man should keep the balance between love and power; he should keep the love in his nature ever increasing and expanding, and at… — Hazrat Inayat Khan

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