Wise Men Quotes
207 quotes by 169 authors
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Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men.
— Douglas Bader
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Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men?
— Natalie Clifford Barney
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At Athens, wise men propose, and fools dispose.
— Alcuin
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Throughout all history, the great wise men and teachers, philosophers, and prophets have disagreed with one another on many different things. It is only on…
— Earl Nightingale
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Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
— Samuel Palmer
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What all the wise men promised has not happened and what all the dammed fools said would happen has come to pass.
— William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne
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Think not silence the wisdom of fools; but, if rightly timed, the honor of wise men, who have not the infirmity, but the virtue of…
— Thomas Browne
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Fools need advice most, but wise men only are the better for it.
— Benjamin Franklin
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We must be careful how we flatter fools too little, or wise men too much, for the flatterer must act the very reverse of the…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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Wise men learn by others' harms, fools scarcely by their own.
— Benjamin Franklin
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There are more fools than wise men, and even in a wise man there is more folly than wisdom.
— Nicolas Chamfort
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Wise men are not wise at all times.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Down in their hearts, wise men know this truth: the only way to help yourself is to help others.
— Elbert Hubbard
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Law is nothing else but the best reason of wise men applied for ages to the transactions and business of mankind.
— Abraham Lincoln
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The good Education of Youth has been esteemed by wise Men in all Ages, as the surest Foundation of the Happiness both of private Families…
— Benjamin Franklin
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Man has but little heeded the advice of the wise men. He has been - fatefully, if not willingly - less virtuous, less constant, less…
— Ralph Bunche
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If we Christians would join the Wise Men, we must close our eyes to all that glitters before the world and look rather on the…
— Martin Luther
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Martyrs have been sincere. And so have tyrants. Wise men have been sincere. And so have fools.
— E. Haldeman-Julius
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Happiness itself is sufficient excuse. Beautiful things are right and true; so beautiful actions are those pleasing to the gods. Wise men have an inward…
— Aristotle
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Zeal is fit for wise men, but flourishes chiefly among fools.
— John Tillotson
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