Wise Men Quotes

207 quotes by 168 authors

When complaints are freely heard, deeply considered and speedily reformed, then is the utmost bound of civil liberty attained that wise men look for. — John Milton
Beauty makes idiots sad and wise men merry. — George Jean Nathan
In Greece wise men speak and fools decide. — George Santayana
Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course. — William Shakespeare
There was no division I could see between the essential teaching of all Prophets and wise men of religion. — Cat Stevens
Fools talk, cowards are silent, wise men listen. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence to be ever in view, and which should be… — Abraham Lincoln
The wise men understood that this natural world is only an image and a copy of paradise. The existence of this world is simply a… — Paulo Coelho
If this nation is to be wise as well as strong, if we are to achieve our destiny, then we need more new ideas for… — John F. Kennedy
I believe when I am in the mood that all nature is full of people whom we cannot see, and that some of these are… — William Butler Yeats
To the philosophers of India, however, Relativity is no new discovery, just as the concept of light years is no matter for astonishment to people… — Alan Watts
[Wise men] have tried to understand our state of being, by grasping at its stars, or its arts, or its economics. But, if there is… — Charles Fort
Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools. — Thomas Hobbes
Fools make feasts and wise men eat them. — Benjamin Franklin
Though wise men at their end know dark is right, Because their words had forked no lightning they Do not go gentle into that good… — Dylan Thomas
The small amount of foolery wise men have makes a great show. — William Shakespeare
Wise men put their trust in ideas and not in circumstances. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I realize that they giggle and I actually laugh, that they show their cleavage and I have none to show, but just so you know,… — John Green
Cast me into a dungeon;, burn me at the state, crown me king of kings, I can 'pursue happiness' as long as my brain lives… — Robert A. Heinlein
The more pity, that fools may not speak wisely what wise men do foolishly. — William Shakespeare

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