Wise Men Quotes

207 Wise Men quotes by 168 unique authors

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
There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man. — Patrick Rothfuss
Man is not by any means of fixed and enduring form (this, in spite of suspicions to the contrary on the part of their wise… — Hermann Hesse
Strange star-like object over Oslo right before Obama arrives. A gift of a golden medal given by a group of wise men... Nah. — Craig Ferguson
I have since often observed, how incongruous and irrational the common temper of mankind is, especially of youth ... that they are not ashamed to… — Daniel Defoe
Wise men say nothing in dangerous times — Aesop
You have no sense of your true duty, which is to be a man and preserve humanity. You imitate wise men so badly and bandits… — Wilhelm Reich
This fellow is wise enough to play the fool; And to do that well craves a kind of wit: He must observe their mood on… — William Shakespeare
The most intelligent people disguise the fact that they are intelligent. Wise men do not wear name tags. The more people talk about their own… — Tsugumi Ohba
Why does Samuel Butler say, 'Wise men never say what they think of women'? Wise men never say anything else apparently. — Virginia Woolf
In the days of Moses and the prophets such a man would have been counted among the wise men of the land; in the Middle… — Hans Christian Andersen

Who Wrote These Wise Men Quotes

168 authors contributed a total of 207 Wise Men Quotes, led by these top contributors: