Top 100 Quotes About Wise Man
#2. A wise man sings his joy in the closet of his heart.
Tibullus
#3. Intellect is a magnitude of intensity, not a magnitude of extension: which is why in this respect one man can confidently take on ten thousand, and a thousand fools do not make one wise man.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#4. Behold, the fool saith, "Put not all thine eggs in the one basket" - which is but a matter of saying, "Scatter your money and your attention"; but the wise man saith, "Pull all your eggs in the one basket and - WATCH THAT BASKET." - Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar
Mark Twain
#5. Chess teaches that actions have consequences and the wise man - or woman - will always look to the endgame ...
Tiffany Reisz
#6. A wise man could not be insulted, since truth could not insult and untruth was not worthy of notice.
Robert A. Heinlein
#7. Probabilities - the surest screen a wise man can place between himself and the truth.
George Eliot
#8. 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
#9. 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
#10. 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
#11. Jesus would be another wise man or philosopher like Socrates if it were not for three words. With the declaration of these words the message of the good news of Jesus Christ changed from "fanatical audacity", to the fantastic reality of a reconciled relationship and eternal hope. "HE IS RISEN!
Tom Barton
#12. The wise man's home is the universe.
Democritus
#13. The best fights are the ones you don't have, a wise man once said to me.
Lee Child
#14. A fool despises good counsel, but a wise man takes it to heart.
Confucius
#15. The words of a wise man's mouth are gracious; but the lips of a fool will swallow up himself.
Doris Lessing
#16. A certain wise man once said that God didn't play dice with the universe, but that man was wrong. Sometimes I think He must even try Russian roulette.
Daina Chaviano
#17. I do not know who I am, said the wise man, and went his way of knowledge unto the end of days.
Kristian Goldmund Aumann
#18. The wise man lacked nothing but needed a great number of things, whereas the fool, on the other hand, needs nothing (for he does not know how to use anything) but lacks everything.
Seneca The Younger
#20. 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
#21. A wise man once said NOTHING ... He just let her vent, nodded his head and live happily ever after!
Tanya Masse
#22. To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself.
Thomas Carlyle
#23. 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
#25. A wise man will not communicate his differing thoughts to unprepared minds, or in a disorderly manner.
Benjamin Whichcote
#26. Every man whose character traits all lie in the mean is called a wise man.
Maimonides
#28. He was a wise man who invented beer.
Plato
#29. 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
#30. 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
#31. The wise man knows of all things, as far as possible, although he has no knowledge of each of them in detail
Aristotle.
#32. For if I claim to be a wise man, it surely means that I don't know."
Kansas
L.D. Jacobson
#34. A wise man is never less alone than when he is alone.
Jonathan Swift
#35. 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
#36. A wise man told me don't argue with fools. Cause people from a distance can't tell who is who.
Jay-Z
#37. O wise man! Give your wealth only to the worthy and never to others. The water of the sea received by the clouds is always sweet.
Chanakya
#38. The wise man then followed a simple way of life-which is hardly surprising when you consider how even in this modern age he seeks to be as little encumbered as he possibly can.
Seneca The Younger
#39. 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
#40. A wealthy and wise man doesn't shake hands with people, he gives an helping hand.
Michael Bassey
#41. 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
#42. A wise man will be master of his mind, a fool will be its slave.
Publilius Syrus
#43. 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
#44. Wise Man: One who sees the storm coming before the clouds appear.
Elbert Hubbard
#45. O wise man, wash your hands of that friend who associates with your enemies.
Saadi
#46. A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men.
Saadi
#47. 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
#48. 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
#50. The wise man is he who knows the relative value of things.
Dean Inge
#51. The wise man, by vigor, mindfulness, restraint, and self-control, creates for himself an island which no flood can submerge.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#52. 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
#53. 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
#54. 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
#55. Zedd had taught him that the creator was simply another name for the force of balance in all things, and not some wise man sitting in judgment.
Terry Goodkind
#56. 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
#57. The malady of civilized man is his knowledge of death. The good artist, like the wise man, addresses himself to life and invests with his private vision the deeds and thoughts of men. The creation of a work of art, like an act of love, is our one small yes at the center of a vast no.
Gore Vidal
#59. A wise man feareth, and departeth from evil: but the fool rageth, and is confident.
Anonymous
#60. 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
#63. There is nothing more becoming any wise man, than to make choice of friends, for by them thou shalt be judged what thou art: let them therefore be wise and virtuous, and none of those that follow thee for gain; but make election rather of thy betters, than thy inferiors.
Walter Raleigh
#64. A wise man once remarked that we can count how many seeds are in the apple, but not how many apples are in the seed.
Wendy Mass
#65. Life is full of surprises, a wise man said, and would not be worth having if it were not.
Richard Ford
#66. the wise man never assumes anything, never regrets anything, is never wrong, never changes his mind.
Robert Harris
#67. The wind cannot shake a mountain. Neither praise nor blame moves the wise man.
Gautama Buddha
#68. Proverbs 12:15 says, "The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, but a wise man listens to advice." The
Matt Chandler
#69. The disease of philosophy. - Philosophy is itself the disease for which it pretends to be the cure: the wise man does not pursue wisdom but lives his life, and therein precisely does his wisdom lie.
Bruce Lee
#70. Few things are needful to make the wise man happy, but nothing satisfies the fool; - and this is the reason why so many of mankind are miserable.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#71. Follow me, the wise man said, but he walked behind.
Leonard Cohen
#72. Ragan gave him a guarded look that said he agreed with every word but strongly doubted Uno's wisdom in voicing them. Ragan, it seemed, had the makings of a wise man in him.
Robert Jordan
#73. I remeber asking a wise man, once ... 'Why do Men fear the dark?' ... 'Because darkness' he told me, 'is ignorance made visable.' 'And do Men despise ignorance?' I asked. 'No,' he said, 'they prize it above all things
all things!
but only so long as it remains invisible.
R. Scott Bakker
#74. Euripides was wont to say, silence was an answer to a wise man; but we seem to have greater occasion for it in our dealing with fools and unreasonable persons; for men of breeding and sense will be satisfied with reason and fair words.
Plutarch
#75. I once heard a wise man say there are no perfect men. Only perfect intentions.
Morgan Freeman
#76. 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
#77. When the wise man points at the Moon, the idiot looks at the finger.
Confucius
#78. Seek your own Reality, That is what a wise man should do.
Sathya Sai Baba
#79. There are always options. And a wise man always has more than one plan.
Christie Golden
#80. A wise man never asks what another man serves, for only his actions will speak the truth.
Seneca.
#81. The wise man knows that every experience is to be viewed as a blessing.
Henry Miller
#82. A wise man neither suffers himself to be governed,
nor attempts to govern others.
Jean De La Bruyere
#83. All knowledge is interesting to a wise man, and the knowledge of nature is interesting to all men.
Matthew Arnold
#84. No evil being was ever wise: they are all against every wise man's critics.
A Gentlemen
#85. To me this is the first principle of life, the foundational principle, and a lesson you can't learn at the foot of any wise man: Get up! The art of living is simply getting up after you've been knocked down.
Joe Biden
#86. A wise man can and should stand above his times, not so the poet, but he should be their apex.
Franz Grillparzer
#87. A wise man can play the part of a clown, but a clown can't play the part of a wise man.
Malcolm X
#88. 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
#89. 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
#92. 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
#93. The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.
Herbert Spencer
#94. 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
#96. 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
#97. Ws 6:1 Wisdom is better than strength: and a wise man is better than a strong man.
Various
#98. 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
#99. The fool who traveled is better off than the wise man who stayed home.
Rashi
