A Wise Man Knows Quotes

#1. A fool shouts charge when he should retreat, A coward shouts retreat when he should charge and a wise man knows the difference. I charge.

Tonny K. Brown

#2. Any one can give advice, such as it is, but only a wise man knows how to profit by it.

Charles Caleb Colton

#3. What a wise man knows is great,
what a fool knows is little,
and what God knows is infinite.
God does not condemn a man for not knowing,
but condemns a man for knowing and not doing.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#4. Even a wise man knows doubt from time to time, it is the fool who allows it to rule his judgement.

Jennifer Melzer

#5. Any fool can get into a fight, but a wise man knows how to stay out of them.

Ken Follett

#6. A wise man knows; learn from others, never get complacent and know where the classic old dangers come from.

Bear Grylls

#7. What a wise man knows, therefore, is how to construct a pattern that, given the human situation, is likely to lead to a good life.

H.W. Charles

#8. A foolish man thinks he knows everything. A wise man knows he doesn't," Finn replied absently, still looking down at the book.
"That's such a fortune-cookie answer," I said with a laugh, and even he smirked at me.

Amanda Hocking

#9. A smart man only believes half of what he hears, a wise man knows which half.

Jeff Cooper

#10. A Wise man knows that much of what he says and does is commonplace and trivial. His thoughts are not all solemn and sacred in his own eyes. He is able to laugh at himself and is not offended when others make him a subject whereon to exercise their wit.

John Lancaster Spalding

#11. A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.

William Shakespeare

#12. A wise man knows how little he knows and upon his death he drinks wisdom from an empty cup.

John Tarttelin

#13. A man must know when to retreat from a woman, but a wise man knows that sometimes he must stand and face her.

Robert Jordan

#14. Any fool can carry on, but a wise man knows how to shorten sail in time.

Joseph Conrad

#15. The wise man who has become accustomed to necessities knows better how to share with others than how to take from them, so great a treasure of self-sufficiency has he found.

Epicurus

#16. In Shakespeare's play As You Like It, Touchstone says to Audrey in the Forest of Arden "The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool." (Act V, Scene I).

Karolina Achirri

#17. The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.

William Shakespeare

#18. An enormously vast field lies between "God exists" and "there is no God." The truly wise man traverses it with great difficulty. A Russian knows one or the other of these two extremes, but is not interested in the middle ground. He usually knows nothing, or very little.

Anton Chekhov

#19. It is a terrifying thing when the animals laugh at the hunter. Take a tip from Harlequin and the Joker. If you imitate a fool well, you are not likely to be fooled by others. To be it bluntly, albeit unorginally: A fool who knows he is a fool is indeed a wise man.

Anton Szandor LaVey

#20. The wise man knows that every experience is to be viewed as a blessing.

Henry Miller

#21. To fear death, gentlemen, is no other than to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know. No one knows whether death may not be the greatest of all blessings for a man, yet men fear it as if they knew that it is the greatest of evils.

Socrates

#22. The wise man knows that it is better to sit on the banks of a remote mountain stream than to be emperor of the whole world.

Zhuangzi

#23. You're wrong," Lord Dudley said. "You've always been a fool."
"The fool thinks he is wise," G retorted. "But the wise man knows himself to be a fool."
That was a great line, he thought. He tried to remember where he'd stashed the quill and paper.

Cynthia Hand

#24. A wise man has more than he shows and tells less than he knows.

J. Helen Elza

#25. A man who is smart may have an abundance of knowledge, but a man who is wise knows where to find an abundance of knowledge. I myself chose the latter."---Backwoods

Backwoods

#26. Better be an old maid, a woman with herself as a husband, than the wife of a fool; and Solomon more than hints that all men are fools; and every wise man knows himself to be one.

Herman Melville

#27. Conceit is a privilege of the ignorant; the wise man is humble because he knows how little he knows.

Isabel Allende

#28. Any fool can wash himself, but every wise man knows that it is an unnecessary labour, for nature will quickly reduce him to a natural and healthy dirtiness again.

James Stephens

#29. 18 Then I hated all my labor in which I had toiled under the sun, because I must leave it to the man who will come after me. 19 And who knows whether he will be wise or a fool?

Anonymous

#30. When I was a boy, my own dad told me in a smiling and wistful way that it's a wise man that knows his own father.

Michael Leunig

#31. A wise man never dwells in the past because he knows he belongs to the future.

Debasish Mridha

#32. He Who Knows And Knows That He Knows Is A Wise Man - Follow Him;
He Who Knows Not And Knows Not That He Knows Not Is A Fool - Shun Him

Confucius

#33. A wise system of education will at least teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn.

John Lubbock

#34. It is a wise man who knows where courage ends and stupidity begins.

Jerome Cady

#35. A wise woman knows the importance of speaking life into her man. If you love him; believe in him, encourage him and be his peace.

Denzel Washington

#36. A wise man does not always admit to everything he knows. And sometimes an overly-credulous friend can be a source of mild amusement."
~Sherlock Holmes

Stephanie Osborn

#37. Sometimes Allah punishes and sometimes men have to do it, and it is a wise man who knows if it's Allah's turn or his own.

Zadie Smith

#38. Every fool knows you can't touch the stars, but it doesn't stop a wise man from trying.

Harry Anderson

#39. A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.

Samuel Johnson

#40. He who is certain he knows the ending of things when he is only beginning them is either extremely wise or extremely foolish; no matter which is true, he is certainly an unhappy man, for he has put a knife in the heart of wonder.

Tad Williams

#41. A wise man understands, an intelligent man knows, but a fool pretends to know.

Debasish Mridha

#42. This is the Modern Man, who cannot save himself but wants to save the world.
He is the Wise who knows not.
And his footsteps on the road click tic-tac, tic-tac

Cristiane Serruya