Top 100 The Wise Man Quotes

#1. The business conduct of the disciples of wise men is truthful and faithful ... He does not allow himself to be made a surety or a guarantor and does not accept the power of attorney ... He lends money and is gracious. He shall not take away business from his fellow man.

Maimonides

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#2. And Jasmine, royal princess and daughter of the sultan..." the little old religious man trailed off, confused. "I'm sorry, daughter. I don't remember all of your names. Rose of Agrabah? Twice Great-Granddaughter of Elisheba the Wise?"
"I think it was Elisheba," Jasmine said thoughtfully.

Liz Braswell

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#3. Some immemorial imbecilities have been added deliberately, on the ground that it is just as interesting to note how foolish men have been as to note how wise they have been.

H.L. Mencken

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#4. Who then is free? the wise man who is lord over himself;
Whom neither poverty nor death, nor chains alarm; strong to withstand his passions and despise honors, and who is completely finished and rounded off in himself.

Horace

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#5. A wise man had said that your Christian life is like a three-legged stool. The legs are doctrine, experience and practice, which is obedience; and you, will not stay upright unless all three are there. In recent years many Christians have not kept these three together.

J.I. Packer

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#6. If the choice is given to us of liberty or security, we must scorn the latter with the proper contempt of free man and the sound judgment of wise men who know that liberty and security are not incompatible in the lives of honest men.

James Farley

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#7. For the wise man, every day is a festival.

Plutarch

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#8. I could be content that we might procreate like trees, without conjunction, or that we were any way to perpetuate the world without this trivial and vulgar way of coition; it is the foolishest act a wise man commits in all his life.

Thomas Browne

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#9. Before man can be free, and equal, and truly wise, he must cast aside the chains of habit and superstition; he must strip sensuality of its pomp, and selfishness of its excuses, and contemplate actions and objects as they really are.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

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#10. Two things a wise man never discloses to the public; his money and his women.

Habeeb Akande

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#11. A person can be educated and still be stupid, and a wise man can have no education at all.

Jennifer A. Nielsen

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#12. The fool who recognizes his foolishness, is a wise man. But the fool who believes himself a wise man, he really is a fool.

Gautama Buddha

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#13. A wise man once said that the opposite of being alive is being boring, so for God's sake, don't be boring !

Cameron Jace

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#14. The silence of a wise man is always meaningful.

Leo Strauss

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#15. The Voice
There is a voice inside of you
That whispers all day long,
"I feel this is right for me,
I know that this is wrong."
No teacher, preacher, parent, friend
Or wise man can decide
What's right for you
just listen to
The voice that speaks inside.

Shel Silverstein

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#16. An intelligent person does not take part in the sources of misery which are due to contact with the material senses. O son of Kunti, such pleasures have a beginning and an end, and so the wise man does not delight in them.

Anonymous

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#17. I bet he also didn't mention that I stick pins into the eyes of everybody who annoys me. In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is the man who was wise enough to only annoy me once.

Sarah Rees Brennan

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#18. No man ever became wise by chance.

Seneca The Younger

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#19. No wonder the Prophet Muhammad said, "In this world take pity on three kinds of people. The rich man who has lost his fortune, the well-respected man who has lost his respectability, and the wise man who is surrounded by ignorants.

Elif Shafak

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#20. You bring the color and the life. It's a lucky man who is offered that color and life, and a wise one who values it.

Nora Roberts

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#21. It is the fool who is haunted by fears, dread of dangers, oppression of mind, not the wise man.

Gautama Buddha

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#22. The fool doth think he is wise, yet it is the wise man that knows himself to be the fool As You Like It, Act 5, Scene 1

Stephen Fry

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#23. According to the grace of God which is given unto me, as a wise masterbuilder, I have laid the foundation, and another buildeth thereon. But let every man take heed how he buildeth thereupon.

Anonymous

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#24. A word from the wise is better than a thesis from a fool.

Matshona Dhliwayo

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#25. Redefined soul anew, bow now with pride. Reborn from the darkness, a man now wise.

Tyler J. Hebert

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#26. The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.

Chanakya

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#27. If a man says that it is right to give every one his due, and therefore thinks within his own mind that injury is due from a just man to his enemies but kindness to his friends, he was not wise who said so, for he spoke not the truth, for in no case has it appeared to be just to injure any one.

Plato

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#28. To a wise man, the whole earth is open; for the native land of a good soul is the whole earth.

Democritus

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#29. 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

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#30. 'Without the help of mathematics,' the wise man continued, 'the art could not advance and all the sciences would perish.'

Julio Cesar De Mello E Souza

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#31. It's a wise man who profits by his own experience, but it's a good deal wiser one who lets the rattlesnake bite the other fellow.

Josh Billings

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#32. A wise man may be duped as well as a fool; but the fool publishes the triumph of the deceiver.

Charles Caleb Colton

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#33. Would that the majority could inflict the greatest evils, for they would then be capable of the greatest good, and that would be fine, but now they cannot do either. They cannot make a man either wise or foolish, but they inflict things haphazardly.

Socrates

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#34. Love is a volcano, the crater of which no wise man will approach too nearly, lest ... he should be swallowed up.

Charles Caleb Colton

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#35. The wise man will always reflect concerning the quality not the quantity of life.

Seneca The Younger

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#36. Whether religion be true or false, it must be necessarily granted to be the only wise principle and safe hypothesis for a man to live and die by.

John Tillotson

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#37. When the wise man opens his mouth, the beauties of his soul present themselves to the view, like the statues in a temple.

Pythagoras

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#38. The most hopelessly stupid man is he who is not aware he is wise.

Isaac Asimov

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#39. The scripture says "oppression makes it even a wise man mad" ...

Harriet Jacobs

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#40. The wise man avoids evil by anticipating it.

Publilius Syrus

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#41. Common men talk bagfuls of religion but do not practise even a grain of it. The wise man speaks a little, even though his whole life is religion expressed in action.

Ramakrishna

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#42. The wise man does not discriminate; he gathers all the shreds of light, from wherever they may come ...

Umberto Eco

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#43. Man, being not only a religious, but also a social being, requires for the promotion of his rational happiness religious institutions, which, while they give a proper direction to devotion, at the same time make a wise and profitable improvement of his social feelings.

Hosea Ballou

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#44. The wise man contents himself with what he has, until such time as he invents something better.

Jose Saramago

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#45. The wise man knows nothing if he cannot benefit from his wisdom. Wisdom is not only to be acquired, but also to be utilized.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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#46. A wise man lays up treasures in the Kingdom of our Father, so as to live a happy eternal life

Sunday Adelaja

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#47. The deepest words
of the wise man teach us
the same as the whistle of the wind when it blows
or the sound of the water when it is flowing.

Antonio Machado

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#48. It's a wise man who understands that every day is a new beginning, because boy, how many mistakes do you make in a day? I don't know about you, but I make plenty. You can't turn the clock back, so you have to look ahead.

Mel Gibson

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#49. Here again is one grand element of a preacher's success. He must labour by all means to be understood. It was a wise saying of Archbishop Usher, To make easy things seem hard is every man's work; but to make hard things easy is the work of a great preacher.

J.C. Ryle

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#50. I'm not trying to sound like I turned into some kind of wise man, but it's nice to realize that your little pocket of the world isn't the whole world.

Chris Kattan

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#51. He was a wise man who originated the idea of God.

Euripides

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#52. Have you never heard what the wise man say : all of the future exists in the past.

Truman Capote

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#53. The best books for a man are not always those which the wise recommend, but often those which meet the peculiar wants, the natural thirst of his mind, and therefore awaken interest and rivet thought.

William Ellery Channing

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#54. the wise man regards the reason for all his actions, but not the results.

Seneca.

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#55. I am just another blind man. I do not get the whole picture of what transpires in all places. I am blind and limited. I would be a fool to think myself wise. And so, not knowing what the universe means, I can only try to be responsible with the knowledge, the strength, and the time given to me.

Jim Butcher

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#56. Fashion is a tyrant from which nothing frees us. We must suit ourselves to its fantastic tastes. But being compelled to live under its foolish laws, the wise man is never the first to follow, nor the last to keep it.

Blaise Pascal

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#57. Where two discourse, if the anger of one rises, he is the wise man who lets the contest fall.

Plutarch

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#58. It is little the sign of a wise or good man, to suffer temperance to be transgressed in order to purchase the repute of a generous entertainer.

Francis Atterbury

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#59. From this state also will he flee. If I should attempt to enumerate them one by one, I should not find a single one which could tolerate the wise man or which the wise man could tolerate.

Seneca.

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#60. Patience is heavenly, obedience is noble, forgiveness is merciful, and exaltation is godly; and he that holds out faithful to the end shall in no wise lose his reward. A good man will endure all things to honor Christ.

Joseph Smith Jr.

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#61. Vir prudens non contra ventum mingit. (A wise man does not urinate against the wind.) Roman proverb

L. Michael Hall

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#62. Philosophers of genius, children, and the people are equally wise - because they ask equally foolish questions. Foolish to a civilized man who has a well-furnished European apartment, with an excellent toilet, and a well-furnished dogma.

Yevgeny Zamyatin

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#63. The wise man can change his mind; the stubborn one, never.

Immanuel Kant

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#64. No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.

H.L. Mencken

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#65. Kindness can turn the bad man's heart, and fools convert to wise, Make poison into nectar-juice, and friends of enemies.

Bhartrhari

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#66. 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

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#67. The wise man applauds he who he thinks most virtuous; the rest of the world applauds the wealthy.

Samuel Johnson

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#68. Doctor. The word for healer and wise man throughout the universe. We get that word from you, you know?' River Song, A Good Man Goes to War

Cavan Scott

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#69. All histories do show, and wise politicians do hold it necessary that, for the well-governing of every Commonweal, it behoveth man to presuppose that all men are evil, and will declare themselves so to be when occasion is offered.

Walter Raleigh

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#70. A man is wise with the wisdom of his time only, and ignorant with its ignorance.

Henry David Thoreau

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#71. A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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#72. The exaltation and happiness of any community, goes hand in hand with the knowledge possessed by the people, when applied to laudable ends; whereupon we can exclaim like the wise man; righteousness exalteth a nation; for righteousness embraces knowledge and knowledge is power.

Joseph Smith Jr.

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#73. The mirror gives a true reflection of a man.

Lailah Gifty Akita

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#74. A wise man was once asked what was the most difficult truth in life to uncover. His reply was: 'to know thyself'.

Jean Sasson

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#75. Have you not noticed that the wild flowers are becoming scarcer every year? It may be that their wise men have told them to depart till man becomes more human. Perhaps they have migrated to heaven.

Okakura Kakuzo

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#76. The wise man should keep the balance between love and power; he should keep the love in his nature ever increasing and expanding, and at the same time strengthen the will so that the heart may not easily be broken.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

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#77. We live in succession, in division, in parts and particles. Meantime, within man, is the soul of the whole; the wise silence; the universal beauty to which every part and particle is equally related; the eternal One.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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#78. Wise is the man who does not disdain any character and instead, examining him with a searching look, plumbs him to the very main-springs of his being.

Nikolai Gogol

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#79. The wise and honorable and Christian thing to do is to treat each black man and each white man (or any person) on his merits as a man, giving him no more and no less than he is worthy to have.

Theodore Roosevelt

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#80. We are only here below as in an inn on a journey. Let us, then have the feelings of travelers. We should think a man very strange who attached himself much to his inn. The wise Christian will not do this.

Eugenie De Guerin

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#81. Too many are not willing to give the Gospel a fair trial. They are too ignorant to speak wisely but not wise enough to speak ignorantly. A man is not a sinner because he is a skeptic; he is a skeptic because he is a sinner.

Vance Havner

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#82. Wise man's mind is always very clear. When asked anything, he gives the answer directly almost without any thinking!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

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#83. Pitiful are those who, acting, are attached to their action's fruits. The wise man lets go of all results, whether good or bad, and is focused on the action alone. ~ Bhagavad Gita, c. 400 BCE ~ 2:49-50

Larry Chang

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#84. The wise man knoweth where to stop, as he runneth in the race of fortune, For experience of old hath taught him, that happiness lingered midway; And many in hot pursuit have hasted to the goal of wealth, But have lost, as they ran, those apples of gold
the mind and the power to enjoy it.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

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#85. May I deem the wise man rich, and may I have such a portion of gold as none but a prudent man can either bear or employ.

Plato

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#86. The difference between a wise man and a fool is a wise man learns his lessons from other people's mistakes and a fool only learns from his own.

Duane "Dog" Chapman

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#87. For the wise man delights in establishing his merit, the brave man likes to show his courage in action, the covetous man is quick at seizing advantages, and the stupid man has no fear of death.

Sun Tzu

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#88. Where there is no experience the wise man is silent.

Barack Obama

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#89. If you can judge a wise man by the color of his skin
Then mister you're a better man than I

Steven Tyler

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#90. When faced with your imminent death, the wise man reaches into the depths of his soul, grabs his sword, and does what is proper. The gods have a way of treating you like a two-penny whore on payday, but at least you might face the experience with the faintest bit of dignity.

Terry Mancour

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#91. It is always wise, as it is also fair, to test a man by the standards of his own day, and not by those of another.

Odell Shepard

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#92. It is said that heaven does not create one man above or below another man. Any existing distinction between the wise and the stupid, between the rich and the poor, comes down to a matter of education.

Fukuzawa Yukichi

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#93. Money is the wise man's religion.

Euripides

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#94. ... the wise Man that holds his Tongue, says more than the Fool who speaks.

Thomas Fuller

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#95. A wise man watches his faults more closely than his virtues; fools reverse the order.

Napoleon Hill

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#96. Where does a wise man kick a pebble? On the beach. Where does a wise man hide a leaf? In the forest.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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#97. The first
sign of greatness is when a man does not attempt to look and act
great. Before you can call yourself a man at all, Kipling assures
us, you must not look too good nor talk too wise.

Dale Carnegie

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#98. To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man.

Aristotle.

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#99. Run for the hills. The Bible commands us to "flee immorality" (1 Corinthians 6:18). Only a fool says, "I can handle temptation without sinning." The wise man says, "I'm not going anywhere near it.

Stephen Kendrick

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#100. Whensoever God's truth is defaced or when any man turns away from the pure simplicity of the Gospel, we must not in any wise spare him, but although the whole world should set itself against us, yet must we maintain the case with invincible constancy, without bending for any creature.

John Calvin

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