Top 100 Quotes About Wise Men
#1. Grace! It's Christmas for goodness sake! Think about the baby Jesus. Up in that tower letting his hair down, so that the three wise men could climb up and spin the dreidel and see if there's six more weeks of winter!
Karen Walker
#2. Great men die and are forgotten,
Wise men speak; their words of wisdom
Perish in the ears that hear them,
Do not reach the generations
That, as yet unborn, are waiting
In the great, mysterious darkness
Of the speechless days that shall be!
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#3. A coquette is a young lady of more beauty than sense, more accomplishments than learning, more charms not person than graces of mind, more admirers than friends, mole fools than wise men for attendants.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#4. But wise men pierce this rotten diction and fasten words again to visible things; so that picturesque language is at once a commanding certificate that he who employs it, is a man in alliance with truth and God.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#5. Again, it is for the sake of the soul that goods external and goods of the body are eligible at all, and all wise men ought to choose them for the sake of the soul, and not the soul for the sake of them.
Aristotle.
#6. The Supreme Court has ruled that they cannot have a nativity scene in Washington, D.C. This wasn't for any religious reasons. They couldn't find three wise men and a virgin.
Jay Leno
#7. Good men and bad men differ radically. Bad men never appreciate kindness shown them, but wise men appreciate and are grateful. Wise men try to express their appreciation and gratitude by some return of kindness, not only to their benefactor, but to everyone else
Gautama Buddha
#8. Wise men are wise yet their actions always seem otherwise to others who always think of the otherwise
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#9. The star of Bethlehem was a star of hope that led the wise men to the fulfillment of their expectations, the success of their expedition. Nothing in this world is more fundamental for success in life than hope, and this star pointed to our only source for true hope: Jesus Christ.
D. James Kennedy
#10. Bob Seger song "Turn the Page." Life goes on, within you and without you, some other wise men said.
Peter Criss
#11. By reason of gifts and bribes the offices be given to rich men, which should rather have been executed by wise men.
Thomas More
#12. There is no accident so unfortunate but wise men will make some advantage of it, nor any so entirely fortunate but fools may turn it to their own prejudice.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#13. Even the severed branch grows again, and the sunken moon returns: wise men who ponder this are not troubled in adversity.
Bhartrhari
#14. Wise men may grow arrogant in their wisdom, but a maester must always remain humble.
George R R Martin
#15. Wise men mingle mirth with their cares, as a help either to forget or overcome them; but to resort to intoxication for the ease of one's mind is to cure melancholy by madness.
Pierre Charron
#16. The wise men are ashamed, they are dismayed and taken: lo, they have rejected the word of the Lord; and what wisdom is in them?
Jeremiah
#17. Crafty men condemn studies; Simple men admire them; And wise men use them: For they teach not their own use: but that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation.
Francis Bacon
#18. Heaven sends down its good and evil symbols and wise men act accordingly.
Confucius
#19. Rules were made for fools to follow and wise men to be guided by.
Winston Churchill
#20. For folly that he wisely shows is fit;
But wise men, folly-fallen, quite taint their wit.
William Shakespeare
#21. Fooles bite one another, but wise-men agree together.
George Herbert
#22. Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men.
Harry Day
#23. There are many questions which fools can ask that wise men cannot answer.
George Polya
#24. For that is the people's verdict, but wise men on the whole reject the people's decrees.
Seneca.
#25. The master of superstition, is the people; and in all superstition, wise men follow fools; and arguments are fitted to practice, in a reversed order.
Francis Bacon
#26. The wise men posit questions to which they may not always find immediate answers, but through their reflections God stimulates man in his search for truth - which in the last analysis is a search for God himself.
University Of Navarra
#27. Christmas is the time for celebration, so I'm not against decorating, putting on lights, buying gifts. In fact, the whole reason we give gifts is the wise men gave gifts to Jesus at the first Christmas, and that started the gift-giving process.
Rick Warren
#28. 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
#29. Whatever can be known of earth we know, Sneered Europe's wise men, in their snail shells curled; No! said one man in Genoa, and that No Out of the dark created the New World. - JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL CONTENTS
Mildred Stapley Byne
#30. Wise men never sit and wail their loss, but cheerily seek how to redress their harms.
William Shakespeare
#31. I do not seek to walk in the paths of the wise men of old, I seek what they sought.
Matsuo Basho
#32. A President and his wise men can only propose; but Congress disposes. It is when President and Congress agree that American history marches forward.
Theodore White
#33. The marks of wise men - adherence to acts, worrying not of any praise be,
Rejection of what is blameable; in faith and reverence submerged absolutely.
[19] - 33 Mahatma Vidur
Munindra Misra
#34. And from that day to this, the wise men of Ishana say one to another secretly, "Is it not known, and has it not been said from of old, that Ishana is ruled by an enemy?"
-Khalil Gibran
Kahlil Gibran
#35. Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise.
Cato The Elder
#36. Wise men verifies the truth of what they heard, foolish men makes conclusion based on what they heard".
Abdulazeez Henry Musa
#37. The seven wise men of Greece, so famous for their wisdom all the world over, acquired all that fame, each of them, by a single sentence consisting of two or three words.
Robert South
#38. Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools.
Thomas Hobbes
#39. Wise men think all they say, fools say all they think.
Ashwin Sanghi
#40. Wise men will change their minds while the foolish stubbornly cling to their pride.
Terron James
#41. Wise men read books about history. Strong men write them.
Pierce Brown
#42. Fools rush in, where wise men never go,
But wise men never fall in love, so how are they to know?
Johnny Mercer
#43. Remember: there are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man. The
Patrick Rothfuss
#44. I am glad you are come. When I was in England I desired that some one would speak the Great Word to me. I will go up and speak to the wise men of our nation, and I hope they will hear.
Tomochichi
#45. He that walketh with wise men shall be wise.
Solomon
#46. Oppression makes wise men mad; but the distemper is still the madness of the wise, which is better than the sobriety of fools.
Edmund Burke
#47. It's the simple things in life that are the most extraordinary; only wise men are able to understand them
Paulo Coelho
#48. Houses" - so the Wise Men tell me
"Mansions"! Mansions must be warm!
Mansions cannot let the tears in,
Mansions must exclude the storm!
"Many Mansions," by "his Father,"
I don't know him; snugly built!
Could the Children find the way there
Some, would even trudge tonight!
Emily Dickinson
#49. It requires philosophy and heroism to rise above the opinion of the wise men of all nations and races.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
#50. Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
#52. All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes.
Winston Churchill
#53. Search for the secret stairs of the wise men; when you find them, lose no time to start ascending!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#54. 20. He that walketh with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed.
Anonymous
#55. For the wise men of old, the cardinal problem of human life was how to conform the soul to objective reality, and the solution was wisdom, self-discipline, and virtue. For the modern, the cardinal problem is how to conform reality to the wishes of man, and the solution is a technique.
Peter Kreeft
#56. A fool can throw a stone in a pond that 100 wise men can not get out.
Saul Bellow
#57. My lord, wise men ne'er wail their present woes, But presently prevent the ways to wail.174
William Shakespeare
#58. 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
#59. In the old legend the wise men finally boiled down the history of mortal affairs into a single phrase: 'This too will pass.'
Benjamin Graham
#60. I think a Play the best divertisement that wise men have: but I do also think them nothing so who do discourse so formallie about the rules of it, as if 'twere the grand affair of humane life.
Aphra Behn
#62. Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men?
Natalie Clifford Barney
#63. Why did I walk through crowds of fellow-beings with my eyes turned down, and never raise them to that blessed Star which led the Wise Men to a poor abode!
Charles Dickens
#64. They obeyed, as wise men do when a woman puts her foot down ...
Terry Pratchett
#65. A bad reader soon puts to flight both wise men and fools.
Horace
#66. A tyrant needs no real reason for what he does, Quellion said. He was a young man, but not foolish. At times, he sounded like other men Spook had known. Wise men. The difference, then, was one of extremity. Or, perhaps, timing?
Brandon Sanderson
#67. One idiot can shut 1000 wise men mouths, where as 1000 wise will fail to open the eyes of an idiot.
Yssubramanyam
#68. The man who walks with wise men becomes wise himself.
Solomon
#69. Hush," said January. "We may be old, but we're not silly. Satan is a catchall term. It gives identity to our theory of a centralized leadership. Call him what you want, a maximum leader, a caudillo. A Genghis Khan or Sitting Bull. Or a council of wise men, or warlords. The concept is sound. Logical.
Jeff Long
#70. But tell me, I beseech you, what man is that would submit his neck to the noose of wedlock, if, as wise men should, he did but first truly weigh the inconvenience of the thing? Or
Erasmus
#72. He that will write well in any tongue, must follow this counsel of Aristotle, to speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do: and so should every man understand him, and the judgment of wise men allow him.
Roger Ascham
#73. It is a pity that, commonly, more care is had
yea, and that among very wise men
to find out rather a cunning man for their horse than a cunning man for their children.
Roger Ascham
#74. The simple shepherds heard the voice of an angel and found their Lamb; the wise men saw the light of a star and found their Wisdom.
Fulton J. Sheen
#75. Wise men say, only fools rush in. Wise men are so slow.
Bob Saget
#76. At Athens, wise men propose, and fools dispose.
Alcuin
#77. No doubt but there is none other beeste comparable to the mightie dragon in awesome power and majestie, and few so worthie of the diligent studies of wise men. -Gildas Magnus, Ars Draconis, 1465
Dugald Steer
#79. First Citizen Come, come, we fear the worst; all shall be well. Third Citizen When clouds appear, wise men put on their cloaks;
William Shakespeare
#80. Our history is every human history; a black and gory business, with more scoundrels than wise men at the lead, and more louts than both put together to cheer and follow.
Philip Wylie
#81. Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.
Cato The Elder
#82. Truth is one, but the wise men know it as many; God is one, but we can approach Him in many ways.
Anonymous
#83. Water and our necessary food are the only things that wise men must fight for.
Plutarch
#84. Wise men read books about history, Pliny. Strong men write them.
Pierce Brown
#87. Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon by them: but they are the money of fools, that value them by the authority of an Aristotle, a Cicero, or a Thomas, or any other doctor whatsoever, if but a man.
Thomas Hobbes
#88. The wise men of old have sent most of their morality down the stream of time in the light skiff of apothegm or epigram; and the proverbs of nations, which embody the commonsense of nations, have the brisk concussion of the most sparkling wit.
Edwin Percy Whipple
#90. Wise men will apply their remedies to vices, not to names; to the causes of evil which are permanent, not to occasional organs by which they act, and the transitory modes in which they appear.
Edmund Burke
#91. Law is nothing else but the best reason of wise men applied for ages to the transactions and business of mankind.
Abraham Lincoln
#92. Your thief looks Exactly like the rest, or rather better; 'Tis only at the bar, and in the dungeon, That wise men know your felon by his features.
Lord Byron
#93. Wise men appreciate all men, for they see the good in each and know how hard it is to make anything good.
Baltasar Gracian
#94. At this time of the rolling year," the specter said, "I suffer most. Why did I walk through crowds of fellow-beings with my eyes turned down, and never raise them to that blessed Star which led the Wise Men to a poor abode? Were there no poor homes to which its light would have conducted me?
Charles Dickens
#95. Wise men hear and see as little children do.
Laozi
#96. Questions upon points wherein Scripture is silent; upon mysteries which belong to God alone; upon prophecies of doubtful interpretation; and upon mere modes of observing human ceremonials, are all foolish, and wise men avoid them.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#97. What is wrong with priests and popes is that instead of being apostles and saints, they are nothing but empirics who say I know instead of I am learning, and pray for credulity and inertia as wise men pray for skepticism and activity.
George Bernard Shaw
#98. Wise men say, only fools rush in. But I can't help, falling in love with you.
Elvis Presley
#99. Think not silence the wisdom of fools; but, if rightly timed, the honor of wise men, who have not the infirmity, but the virtue of taciturnity.
Thomas Browne
#100. Show is not substance; realities govern wise men.
William Penn
