Top 100 Sayings About The Wise
#1. The Wise (Minstrel or Sage,) out of their books are clay; But in their books, as from their graves they rise. Angels
that, side by side, upon our way, Walk with and warn us!
Bill Vaughan
#2. O you virtuous owle,
The wise Minerva's only fowle.
Philip Sidney
#3. Therefore whenever his last day comes, the wise man will not hesitate to meet death with a firm step.
Seneca.
#4. It is for the wise people who delight in humanity, praise justice, despise their flatterers, and respect the truth.
Madame Roland
#5. The wise artist makes peace with the fact that he will understand less than he had anticipated.
Eric Maisel
#6. If you expect the wise man to be as angry as the baseness of crimes requires, then he must not only be angry but go insane.
Seneca The Younger
#7. Careless words stab like a sword, but the words of the wise bring healing. Proverbs 12:18 Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves, for the rescue of those who are crushed. Proverbs 31:8
Wendy Duke
#8. The wise are free from perplexities; the virtuous from anxiety; and the bold from fear.
Confucius
#9. Nature never deserts the wise and pure; no plot so narrow, be but nature there; no waste so vacant, but may well employ each faculty of sense, and keep the heart awake to love and beauty.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
#10. Every evil is some good spelt backwards, and in it the wise know how to read Wisdom.
Coventry Patmore
#11. Realizing the doctrine of dependent-arising, the wise do not at all partake of extreme views
Gautama Buddha
#12. 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
#13. Wine can of their wits the wise beguile, Make the sage frolic, and the serious smile
Homer
#14. The wise learn from the experience of others, and the creative know how to make a crumb of experience go a long way.
Eric Hoffer
#15. I long to be in the midst of the children, and have more pleasure in their little follies than in the wisdom of the wise.
Thomas Jefferson
#16. Chess teaches that actions have consequences and the wise man - or woman - will always look to the endgame ...
Tiffany Reisz
#17. Do not test out your mind on the grounds that you are examining what seductive and impure thoughts look like, imagining that, as you do this, you will not be overcome by them. Even the wise have in this way been thrown into confusion and become infatuated.
Isaac Of Nineveh
#18. advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill. But what would you? You have not told me all concerning yourself; and how then shall I choose better than you? But if you demand advice, I will for friendship's sake give it.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#19. What the wise seek is in themselves
Confucius
#21. God chooses the foolish and weak things of the world to shame the wise and the strong, to show his power and our weakness without him. God's power is perfect in our weakness,
Francine Rivers
#22. I do not seek to walk in the paths of the wise men of old, I seek what they sought.
Matsuo Basho
#23. The wise man's home is the universe.
Democritus
#24. This conflict between right and fact has endured since the origins of society. To bring the duel to an end, to consolidate the pure ideal with the human reality, to make the right peacefully interpenetrate the fact, and the fact the right, this is the work of the wise.
Victor Hugo
#25. History never recorded this phrase: 'The Mass of Wise.' Because the wise is not too abundant to form masses!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#26. At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time.
Ovid
#28. The wise learn from the mistakes of others, it's the fool that wants to make their own mistakes.
Tony Gaskins
#29. Yes, and shall do till the pangs of death shake him. Infirmity, that decays the wise, doth ever make the better fool.
William Shakespeare
#30. 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
#31. To the wise, a prick on the finger avoids a hole in the heart.
Donita K. Paul
#32. 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
#34. No professional Wall Street tipster or plausible promoter can turn a sane person into a stock gambler as easily as his next-door neighbor bragging about his winnings. If all men profited by experience, the world would be peopled exclusively by the wise....
Kenneth L. Fisher
#35. I hope the time is not far off when I shall be able to unite all the wise and educated men of all the countries and establish a uniform regime based on the principles of the Quran which alone are true and which alone can lead men to happiness.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#36. The wise soul feareth not death; rather she sometimes striveth for death, she goeth beyond to meet her. Yet eternity maintaineth her substance throughout time, immensity throughout space, universal form throughout motion.
Giordano Bruno
#37. For it has come about, by the wise economy of nature, that our modern spirit can almost dispense with language; the commonest expressions do, since no expressions do; hence the most ordinary conversation is often the most poetic, and the most poetic is precisely that which cannot be written down.
Virginia Woolf
#38. My father taught in the wise way which unfolds what lies in the child
Louisa May Alcott
#42. 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
#43. He who walks in the company of fools suffers much. Company with fools, as with an enemy, is always painful. Company with the wise is pleasure, like meeting with kinfolk.
Gautama Buddha
#44. 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
#45. Healers make the most dreadful enemies, Scion of the House of Strong-in-the-Arm. The knowledge that saves lives can be used to do exactly the opposite. Especially when they have the blood of the Wise Ones in their veins.
Stuart Hill
#46. Last night
I begged the Wise One to tell me
the secret of the world.
Gently, gently, he whispered,
"Be quiet,
the secret cannot be spoken,
It is wrapped in silence."
Rumi
#47. Mob rule and emasculation of the wise' and 'who will watch the guardians'?
Plato
#49. The wise man knows of all things, as far as possible, although he has no knowledge of each of them in detail
Aristotle.
#50. The faults of women, of children, of the feeble, the indigent, and the ignorant, are the fault of the husbands, the fathers, the masters, the strong, the rich, and the wise.
Victor Hugo
#51. He who thinks with difficulty believes with alacrity. A fool is a natural proselyte, but he must be caught young, for his convictions, unlike those of the wise, harden with age.
Ambrose Bierce
#52. Small-minded people blame others. Average people blame themselves. The wise see all blame as foolishness
Epictetus
#54. Farsi Couplet:
Naala-e zanjeer-e Majnun arghanoon-e aashiqanast
Zauq-e aan andaza-e gosh-e ulul-albaab neest
English Translation:
The creaking of the chain of Majnun is the orchestra of the lovers,
To appreciate its music is quite beyond the ears of the wise.
Amir Khusrau
#55. The immature think that knowledge and action are different, but the wise see them as the same.
Anonymous
#56. He shall rise up and shut the door, it will be in vain for mere professors to knock, and cry Lord, Lord open unto us, for that same door which shuts in the wise virgins will shut out the foolish for ever. Lord, shut me in by Thy grace.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#57. 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
#58. As a bee gathering nectar does not harm or disturb the color & fragrance of the flower; so do the wise move through the world.
Gautama Buddha
#59. The wise treat self-respect as non-negotiable, and will not trade it for health or wealth or anything else.
Thomas Szasz
#60. Said one of the wise: the wrath of you did not do evil in you, "Go for it authors of" you, anger exposes quality of human beings
Undefined
#61. During times like these, the wise are influential.
Joni Mitchell
#62. The wise teacher appears, not for the structure of the student; but for the freedom of the people.
Nikki Rowe
#63. Everything perishes except the world itself and its keepers ... But while life lasts everything on earth has its use. The wise seek ways to be helpful to the world, for the helpful ones are sure to live again.
L. Frank Baum
#64. It became the country's official language in the 13th century under the reign of Alfonso X el Sabio (the wise one) as he tried to unify a country that was housing a number of languages, including arabic, hebrew and latin.
Pilar Orti
#65. There is much to be learned from the world around us - far more than we normally comprehend. The Ancient Ones knew this well - most particularly the wise teachers among them - those who, in the Navajo tongue, were called "Anasazi.
Anasazi Foundation
#66. Among all the wise people of the nations and among all their kingdoms, there is no one like You. Jeremiah 10:7
Beth Moore
#67. No matter the barbs of fate that frustrate you, no matter how stacked against you the cards of fortune ... There is a liberating law in the universe, and you can become the highest of the high, wisest of the wise.
Uell Stanley Andersen
#69. Clean of officious fence or hedge, Half-wild and wholly tame, The wise turf cloaks the white cliff-edge As when the Romans came.
Helen Simonson
#70. The wise do not argue therefrom, that the desires of the woman, as long as she is young and strong, are not as real and urgent of those of the man.
Richard Francis Burton
#71. 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
#72. Thus we play the fool with the time and the spirits of the wise sit in the clouds and mock us.
William Shakespeare
#74. Search for the secret stairs of the wise men; when you find them, lose no time to start ascending!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#76. In the house of the wise are stores of choice food and oil, but a foolish man devours all he has" (Proverbs 21:20, NIV).
Gary Chapman
#77. Therefore, do not eat meat which will cause terror among people, because it hinders the truth of emancipation; not to eat meat? this is the mark of the wise.
Gautama Buddha
#79. 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
#80. Mortals seldom know how greatly they are influenced by fairies, knooks and ryls, who often put thoughts into their heads that only the wise little immortals could have conceived.
L. Frank Baum
#81. The fool who traveled is better off than the wise man who stayed home.
Rashi
#82. 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
#83. The wise man knows that every experience is to be viewed as a blessing.
Henry Miller
#85. When the wise man points at the Moon, the idiot looks at the finger.
Confucius
#86. Look at the body as a royal chariot to which the ignorant cling, while the wise let go.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#88. There is one safeguard known generally to the wise, which is an advantage and security to all, but especially to democracies as against despots - suspicion.
Demosthenes
#89. 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
#90. 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
#91. Still glides the stream
and shall forever glide
its form remains its function never dies
while we the brave and the mighty and the wise
we men who in our youth defied the elements
must vanish-
be it so
William Wordsworth
#92. But the work of the wise is one thing and the work of the merely clever is another.
Victor Hugo
#94. the wise man never assumes anything, never regrets anything, is never wrong, never changes his mind.
Robert Harris
#95. The wind cannot shake a mountain. Neither praise nor blame moves the wise man.
Gautama Buddha
#96. 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
#97. The wise teach, the righteous learn from them; the foolish disregard any knowledge handed to them.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#98. The weak have remedies, the wise have joys; superior wisdom is superior bliss.
Edward Young
#99. Follow me, the wise man said, but he walked behind.
Leonard Cohen
#100. Be wise among the wise, but pretend to be dull among fools.
Thiruvalluvar
