Wise Men Quotes

207 Wise Men quotes by 168 unique authors

Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men. — Douglas Bader
Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men? — Natalie Clifford Barney
At Athens, wise men propose, and fools dispose. — Alcuin
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
Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them. — Samuel Palmer
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
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
Fools need advice most, but wise men only are the better for it. — Benjamin Franklin
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
Wise men learn by others' harms, fools scarcely by their own. — Benjamin Franklin
There are more fools than wise men, and even in a wise man there is more folly than wisdom. — Nicolas Chamfort
Wise men are not wise at all times. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Down in their hearts, wise men know this truth: the only way to help yourself is to help others. — Elbert Hubbard
Law is nothing else but the best reason of wise men applied for ages to the transactions and business of mankind. — Abraham Lincoln
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
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
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
Martyrs have been sincere. And so have tyrants. Wise men have been sincere. And so have fools. — E. Haldeman-Julius
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
Zeal is fit for wise men, but flourishes chiefly among fools. — John Tillotson
He that will write well in any tongue must follow this counsel of Aristotle: to speak as the common people do, to think as wise… — Roger Ascham
Cato used to assert that wise men profited more by fools than fools by wise men; for that wise men avoided the faults of fools,… — Plutarch
That wise Men have in all Ages thought Government necessary for the Good of Mankind; and, that wise Governments have always thought Religion necessary for… — Benjamin Franklin
Wise men are not wise at all hours, and will speak five times from their taste or their humor, to once from their reason. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The example of changing a constitution by assembling the wise men of the state, instead of assembling armies, will be worth as much to the… — Thomas Jefferson

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