Compass Quote by Thomas Carlyle

Wise is the man who contents himself with the spectacle of the world.

— Ricardo Reis

From that time forth he believed that the wise man is one who never sets himself apart from other living things, whether they have…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

The wisest man is he who can account for his actions.

— Umar

Wise is the man who says what needs to be said, but not all that could be said.

— Marvin J. Ashton

“For in this enlightened age, when men believe not even what they see, the doubting of wise men would be his greatest strength.”

— Bram Stoker

The wisest man is he who does not believe he is wise

— Proverb

“Wise men told him his simple fancies were inane and childish, and even more absurd because their actors persist in fancying them full of…

— H.P. Lovecraft

The follies of the wise man are known to himself, but hidden from the world.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The wisest man is he who does not fancy that he is so at all.

— Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

The wise man is one who knows what he does not know.

— Anonymous

The wise man tests before he talks. The critic but follows the fad of a cynical and apathetic age.

— L. Ron Hubbard

“A wise man is the one who is able to see the foolishness in his thought.”

— Kwesi Ackah