Wise Men Quotes

207 quotes by 168 authors

Fools make researches and wise men exploit them. — H.G. Wells
Good men and bad men differ radically. Bad men never appreciate kindness shown them, but wise men appreciate and are grateful. Wise men try to… — Gautama Buddha
When hungry, eat your rice; when tired, close your eyes. Fools may laugh at me, but wise men will know what I mean. — Linji Yixuan
Wise men say, and not without reason, that whosoever wished to foresee the future might consult the past. — Niccolo Machiavelli
Believe nothing because it is written in books. Believe nothing because wise men say it is so. Believe nothing because it is religious doctrine. Believe… — Gautama Buddha
A wise man should so write (though in words understood by all men) that wise men only should be able to commend him. — Thomas Hobbes
Fools call wise men fools. A wise man never calls any man a fool. — Thomas A. Edison
For if the mystery concealed of old is made manifest to the Apostles through the prophetic writings, and if the prophets, being wise men, understood… — Origen
Clever men are impressed in their differences from their fellows. Wise men are conscious of their resemblance to them. — R. H. Tawney
This life of yours which you are living is not merely a piece of this entire existence, but in a certain sense the whole; only… — Erwin Schrodinger
Smart men walked on the moon, daring men walked on the ocean floor, but wise men walk with God. — Leonard Ravenhill
Animals feed themselves; men eat; but only wise men know the art of eating — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
The simple shepherds heard the voice of an angel and found their Lamb; the wise men saw the light of a star and found their… — Fulton J. Sheen
Rivers and the inhabitants of the watery elements are made for wise men to contemplate and for fools to pass by without consideration. — Izaak Walton
Wise men still seek Him today. — Daniel Bell
Speech was given to the ordinary sort of men, whereby to communicate their mind; but to wise men, whereby to conceal it. — Robert South
Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both;… — Seneca the Younger
The child who dwells inside us trusts that there are wise men somewhere who know the truth. — Czeslaw Milosz
Politics is like navigation in a sea without charts, and wise men live the lives of pilgrims. — Joyce Cary
For the wise men of old, the cardinal problem of human life was how to conform the soul to objective reality, and the solution was… — Peter Kreeft

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