Top 100 Quotes About A Wise Man
#1. A wise man should marry a virgin of a respectable family even if she is deformed. He should not marry one of a low-class family, through beauty. Marriage in a family of equal status is preferable.
Chanakya
#2. I once heard a wise man say there are no perfect men. Only perfect intentions.
Morgan Freeman
#3. 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
#4. Seek your own Reality, That is what a wise man should do.
Sathya Sai Baba
#5. There are always options. And a wise man always has more than one plan.
Christie Golden
#6. A wise man never asks what another man serves, for only his actions will speak the truth.
Seneca.
#7. A wise man neither suffers himself to be governed,
nor attempts to govern others.
Jean De La Bruyere
#8. A wise man in China asked his gardener to plant a shrub. The gardener objected that it only flowered once in a hundred years. "In that case," said the wise man, "plant it immediately." [On the importance of fundamental research.]
John Charles Polanyi
#9. It is a wise man that does know the contented man is never poor, whilst the discontented man is never rich.
Frank Herbert
#10. Where would a wise man hide a leaf? In the forest. If there were no forest, he would make a forest. And if he wished to hide a dead leaf, he would make a dead forest.
G.K. Chesterton
#11. A wise man, recognizing that the world is but an illusion, does not act as if it is real, so he escapes the suffering.
Gautama Buddha
#12. Ws 6:1 Wisdom is better than strength: and a wise man is better than a strong man.
Various
#14. A wise man once said all children are born knowing what the angels look like
Daniel Gottlieb
#15. If it be true that a man is rich who wants nothing, a wise man is a very rich man.
Jean De La Bruyere
#16. All knowledge is interesting to a wise man, and the knowledge of nature is interesting to all men.
Matthew Arnold
#17. He looked down at her. "Have you found that peace?"
Yes, she had. But it was so corny and cliched that she couldn't bring herself to admit it.
"A wise man once told me that peace has to come from within. We have to learn to like ourselves before we can find our place in the world.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#19. 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
#20. It is said that a wise man rules over the stars, but this does not mean that he rules over the influences which come from the stars in the sky. It means that he rules over the powers which exist in his own constitution.
Paracelsus
#21. The way to fight a woman is with your hat. Grab it and run.
The guy who said that was a wise man. He knew what most men don't - Women are powerful creatures who should be handled with care, or they can become very, very dangerous.
Christina Dodd
#22. In common discourse we denominate persons and things according to the major part of their character; he is to be called a wise man who has but few follies.
Isaac Watts
#23. A wise man can play the part of a clown, but a clown can't play the part of a wise man.
Malcolm X
#24. A wise man can and should stand above his times, not so the poet, but he should be their apex.
Franz Grillparzer
#26. Folly plots a fool's death from the moment they become friends. Wisdom bestows blessings upon a wise man from the moment they wed.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#27. Great wine requires a mad man to grow the vine, a wise man to watch over it, a lucid poet to make it, and a lover to drink it.
Salvador Dali
#28. I knew a wise man that had it for a by-word, when he saw men hasten to a conclusion, "Stay a little, that we may make an end the sooner."
Francis Bacon
#30. Logic is a large drawer, containing some useful instruments, and many more that are superfluous. A wise man will look into it for two purposes, to avail himself of those instruments that are really useful, and to admire the ingenuity with which those that are not so, are assorted and arranged.
Charles Caleb Colton
#31. The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man.
Euripides
#32. A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men.
Saadi
#33. For love, as he knew it, was an aberration, a form of temporary insanity, a shortlived state of autosuggestion.
Love was a state which a wise man would prudently avoid.
Robert Sheckley
#34. A wise man will be master of his mind, a fool will be its slave.
Publilius Syrus
#35. All places that the eye of heaven visits/ Are to a wise man ports and happy havens:/ Think not the king did banish thee:/ But thou the king.
Richard II
James Fenimore Cooper
#36. Always win fools first. They talk much, and what they have once uttered they will stick to; whereas there is always time, up to the last moment, to bring before a wise man arguments that may entirely change his opinion.
Arthur Helps
#37. A wise man told me don't argue with fools. Cause people from a distance can't tell who is who.
Jay-Z
#38. You see, Marcus, some things have value yet have no price, and a wise man learns them and their worth. So do not let the standard of the marketplace be your guide. A man goes there for flour and greens, but not for virtue.
Paul Waters
#39. A wise man is never less alone than when he is alone.
Jonathan Swift
#40. For if I claim to be a wise man, it surely means that I don't know."
Kansas
L.D. Jacobson
#41. A wise man once said that any human being is capable of infinite achievement, so long as it's not the work they're supposed to be doing.
K.J. Parker
#42. If you want to make an ordinary man happy, or think that he is happy, give him money, power, flattery, gifts, honours. If you want to make a wise man happy - improve yourself!
Idries Shah
#43. He was a wise man who invented beer.
Plato
#44. Every man whose character traits all lie in the mean is called a wise man.
Maimonides
#45. A wise man will not communicate his differing thoughts to unprepared minds, or in a disorderly manner.
Benjamin Whichcote
#46. In our reasonings concerning matter of fact, there are all imaginable degrees of assurance, from the highest certainty to the lowest species of moral evidence. A wise man, therefore, proportions his belief to the evidence.
David Hume
#47. A wise man once said NOTHING ... He just let her vent, nodded his head and live happily ever after!
Tanya Masse
#48. The great Tibetan meditator Gungtang Jampelyang once asked
'What is the difference between a wise man and a fool?'
The difference lies in their intention. A wise person is someone who has a good intention, not someone who merely possesses knowledge.
Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
#49. The words of a wise man's mouth are gracious; but the lips of a fool will swallow up himself.
Doris Lessing
#50. A fool despises good counsel, but a wise man takes it to heart.
Confucius
#51. The best fights are the ones you don't have, a wise man once said to me.
Lee Child
#52. A wise man once said that next to losing its mother, there is nothing more healthy for a child than to lose its father.
Halldor Laxness
#53. A wise man alters his misconceptions when he learns the truth; a fool tries to beat the truth into the mold of his misconceptions.
Sarah A. Chrisman
#54. People should learn to see and so avoid all danger. Just as a wise man keeps away from mad dogs, so one should not make friends with evil men." - Buddha
Gavin De Becker
#55. Probabilities - the surest screen a wise man can place between himself and the truth.
George Eliot
#56. A wise man could not be insulted, since truth could not insult and untruth was not worthy of notice.
Robert A. Heinlein
#57. A wise man sings his joy in the closet of his heart.
Tibullus
#58. Even if a fool lived with a wise man all his life, he would still not recognise the truth, like a wooden spoon cannot recognise the flavour of the soup.
Gautama Buddha
#59. Wisdom is considered a sign of weakness by the powerful because a wise man can lead without power but only a powerful man can lead without wisdom.
Mark B. Cohen
#60. The service of love is the foolishest act a wise man commits in all his life, nor is there anything that will more deject his cool'd imagination, when he shall consider what an odd and unworthy piece of folly he hath committed.
Thomas Browne
#61. I suppose you can guess the whole story now? After all, it's a primitive story. A man had two enemies. He was a wise man. And so he discovered that two enemies are better than one.
G.K. Chesterton
#62. It takes a wise man to handle a lie, a fool had better remain honest.
Norman Douglas
#63. All things are filled full of signs, and it is a wise man who can learn about one thing from another.
Plotinus
#64. A wise man once said the fact that everyone lies is a universal truth, the only variable is about what.
Cameron Jace
#65. Even voting for the right is doing nothing for it. It is only expressing to men feebly your desire that it should prevail. A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority. There is but little virtue in the action of masses of men.
Henry David Thoreau
#67. A wise man lights a candle while fools are busy cursing the darkness
Seth Czerepak
#68. If by leaving a small pleasure one sees a great pleasure, let a wise man leave the small pleasure, and look to the great.
Gautama Buddha
#69. It takes more than a wise man to keep track of a foolish woman.
Minna Antrim
#70. A wise man once said the greatest trick the devil ever pulled was to convince the world he was someone else ...
Cameron Jace
#71. One conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study in a public school.
D.B. Patterson
#72. He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
Epictetus
#73. A smart man only believes half of what he hears, a wise man knows which half.
Jeff Cooper
#74. Only a wise man could see my people so clearly in so short a time. Only a ruthless one would say it all out loud. Your virtue and your flaw- we need them both.
Orson Scott Card
#75. A wise man differs from the ordinary;
in understanding, knowing and experiencing what Truth is all about.
Gian Kumar
#76. These are the signs of a wise man: to reprove nobody, to praise nobody, to blame nobody, nor even to speak of himself or his own merits.
Epictetus
#77. In peace, as a wise man, he should make suitable preparation for war.
Horace
#78. A wise man once told me that you can't change what's happened but you can damn sure change what's yet to come.
Vicki Green
#79. A wise man has doubts even in his best moments. Real truth is always accompanied by hesitations. If I could not hesitate, I could not believe.
Henry David Thoreau
#80. One great difference between a wise man and a fool is, the former only wishes for what he may possibly obtain; the latter desires impossibilities.
Democritus
#81. There is a feeling of deep universalism, in the wake of the splendid words of Democritus: "To a wise man, the whole earth is open, because the true country of a virtuous soul is the entire universe.
Carlo Rovelli
#83. The only thing history teaches us, a wise man once said, is that history doesn't teach us anything.
Michael Lewis
#85. Don't confess to being a fool or a wise man; let others decide for you
Nancy B. Brewer
#86. A wise man once said that a person is known by
the company he keeps, but could then also add that the character of the
company is known by the people it keeps for the longest days, especially
at the strategic decision making level.
Anuj
#87. Look, my dear Govinda, this is one of my thoughts, which I have found: wisdom cannot be passed on. Wisdom which a wise man tries to pass on to someone always sounds like foolishness." "Are
Hermann Hesse
#89. As a wise man once said: Wherever you go, there you are.
Mike Brady
#90. So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#91. The mind of a wise man is the safest custody of secrets; cheerfulness is the key to friendship; patience and forbearance will conceal many defects.
Bill Vaughan
#94. Any fool can carry on, but a wise man knows how to shorten sail in time.
Joseph Conrad
#96. A wise man who has the moment in his hand should not let that moment slip.
Louis Farrakhan
#99. Sapiens adjuvabit opus astrorum quemadmodum agricola terrae naturam": A wise man assisteth the work of the stars as the husbandman helpeth the nature of the soil.
Henry David Thoreau
#100. Space is a windless silent place, just like the mind of a wise man!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
