Top 100 Wisdom Wise Man Quotes
#1. The kind of man who always thinks that he is right, that his opinions, his pronouncements, are the final word, when once exposed shows nothing there. But a wise man has much to learn without a loss of dignity.
Sophocles
#2. When a wise man does not understand, he says: "I do not understand." The fool and the uncultured are ashamed of their ignorance. They remain silent when a question could bring them wisdom.
Frank Herbert
#3. A wise man nourishes his soul each morning with the word of God and enriches his day with God's wisdom. Psalm 19:7.
Felix Wantang
#4. Can you see a serene island in the middle of a stormy ocean? And the wise man is that calm island!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#5. Wisdom cannot be passed on. Wisdom which a wise man tries to pass on to someone always sounds like foolishness.
Hermann Hesse
#6. Man is wise only while in search of wisdom; when he imagines he has attained it, he is a fool.
Solomon Ibn Gabirol
#7. Ah! how little knowledge does a man acquire in his life. He gathers it up like water, but like water it runs between his fingers, and yet, if his hands be but wet as though with dew, behold a generation of fools call out, 'See, he is a wise man!' Is it not so?
H. Rider Haggard
#9. A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
Baltasar Gracian
#10. Man is wise and constantly in quest of more wisdom; but the ultimate wisdom, which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls forth faith rather than reason.
Hal Borland
#11. A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
Francis Bacon
#12. No man is born wise; but wisdom and virtue require a tutor; though we can easily learn to be vicious without a master.
Seneca The Younger
#13. A wise man thus seeks not a straight path, but one that is the shortest or most convenient. The idea is to reach your goal comfortably and quickly rather than wasting your time in finding 'Which is the straightest path?
Awdhesh Singh
#14. Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control.
Martin Luther
#15. The wise man is astonished by anything.
Andre Gide
#16. Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment is the treasurer of a wise man.
William Penn
#17. A wise man will always be a Christian, because the perfection of wisdom is to know where lies tranquillity of mind and how to attain it, which Christianity teaches.
Walter Savage Landor
#18. To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.
Plutarch
#19. The wise man is one who, knows, what he does not know.
Lao-Tzu
#20. A man remains ignorant because he loves ignorance, and chooses ignorant thoughts; a man becomes wise because he loves wisdom and chooses wise thoughts.
James Allen
#21. A wise system of education will at least teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn.
John Lubbock
#22. This is beyond understanding." said the king. "You are the wisest man alive. You know what is preparing. Why do you not make a plan to save yourself?"
And Merlin said quietly, "Because I am wise. In the combat between wisdom and feeling, wisdom never wins.
John Steinbeck
#23. The wise man hath his thoughts in his head; the fool, on his tongue.
Ivan Panin
#24. God has bestowed upon you intelligence and knowledge. Do not extinguish the lamp of Divine Grace and do not let the candle of wisdom die out in the darkness of lust and error. For a wise man approaches with his torch to light up the path of mankind.
Khalil Gibran
#25. True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance.
Akhenaton
#26. I've often heard it said, as the common proverb goes, that a fool can teach a wise man well.
Francois Rabelais
#27. Every nation, every woman and every man must work out their own salvation.
Abhijit Naskar
#29. 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
#30. Wisdom includes not getting angry unnecessarily. The Law ignores trifles and the wise man does, too.
Robert A. Heinlein
#31. One conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study in a public school.
D.B. Patterson
#33. We can be knowledgeable with another man's knowledge, but we can't be wise with another man's wisdom.
Michel De Montaigne
#34. He who seeks wisdom is a wise man; he who thinks he has found it is mad.
Seneca The Younger
#35. Union of the weakest develops strength not wisdom. Can all men, together, avenge one of the leaves that have fallen in autumn? But the wise man avenges by building his city in snow.
Wallace Stevens
#36. All the world's follies," he replied, "turn up in publishing houses sooner or later. But the world's follies may also contain flashes of the wisdom of the Most High, so the wise man observes folly with humility." Then
Umberto Eco
#37. The tongue of a fool is the key of his counsel, which, in a wise man, wisdom hath in keeping.
Socrates
#38. It is the part of a wise man, I say, to refresh and restore himself in moderation with pleasant food and drink, with scents, with the beauty of green plants, with decoration, music, sports, the theater, and other things of this kind, which anyone can use without injury to another.
Baruch Spinoza
#39. I have always considered David Hume as approaching as nearly the idea of a perfectly wise and virtuous man as perhaps the nature of human frailty will allow.
Adam Smith
#40. There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.
Patrick Rothfuss
#41. In his face there came to be a brooding peace that is seen most often in the faces of the very sorrowful or the very wise. But still he wandered through the streets of the town, always silent and alone.
Carson McCullers
#42. Wise kings generally have wise counselors; and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one.
Diogenes
#43. A man cannot be wise enough to be a great artist without being wise enough to wish to be a philosopher.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#44. Anger may glance into the breast of a wise man, but rests only in the bosom of fools.
David C. Stark
#45. Things are more like they are now ... than they have EVER been before!
Uncle Arnie Mamath
#46. We can always be human
Meeting each day a wise new man
But the Animal Kingdom to which we belong
Animals we are; this truth can't be wrong.
Munia Khan
#47. The life of a wise man is most of all extemporaneous, for he lives out of an eternity which includes all time.
Henry David Thoreau
#49. Offer a wise man to be the king of the world, he will refuse it because wisdom is already a kingdom and the king is the kingdom itself!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#50. A wise man, once he is past fifty, does not befuddle his senses with strong drink, nor make violent love in the cool spring night, nor dance on his hands.
Frans G. Bengtsson
#51. It seems to me that smart people seem to know things and wise people know how to use what they know. Smart is a big help to a man; wise is a big help to lots of men.
Dan Groat
#52. It's a wise man who isn't afraid to make a fool of himself every now and then.
Benita J. Prins
#53. Talk is free but the wise man chooses when to spend his words.
Neil Gaiman
#54. Death is the destiny of every man.
Every man must know this to live wisely.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#55. Every man, however wise, who begins by worshipping success, must end in mere mediocrity. This strange and paradoxical fate is involved, not in the individual, but in the philosophy, in the point of view. It is not the folly of the man which brings about this necessary fall; it is his wisdom.
G.K. Chesterton
#56. Sweet songs of youth, the wise, the meeting of all wisdom To believe in the good in man.
Jon Anderson
#57. He who is certain he knows the ending of things when he is only beginning them is either extremely wise or extremely foolish; no matter which is true, he is certainly an unhappy man, for he has put a knife in the heart of wonder.
Tad Williams
#59. Hundreds of wise men cannot make the world a heaven, but one idiot is enough to turn it into a hell.
Raheel Farooq
#60. A wise man will cultivate a servant's spirit, for that particular attribute attracts people like no other. As I humbly serve others, their wisdom will be freely shared with me. Often, the person who develops a servant's spirit becomes wealthy beyond measure.
Andy Andrews
#61. Why a wise man is wise? The answer is simple: Because he has left his own shore!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#62. A foolish man enjoys the company of prostitutes;
a wise man enjoys the company of his wife.
The mother of a prudent son will rejoice;
the father of a mindless son will groan.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#63. Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable.
John Patrick
#64. A wise man knows how little he knows and upon his death he drinks wisdom from an empty cup.
John Tarttelin
#65. A famously wise old man in a village was once asked how he came by his wisdom. "I got it from my good judgment," he answered. And where did his good judgment come from? "I got it from my bad judgment."
Sydney J. Harris
#68. A wise man is able to differentiate between humility and weakness, he does not mistake courage for pride.
Newton Gatambia
#69. A man is wise with the wisdom of his time only, and ignorant with its ignorance.
Henry David Thoreau
#70. 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
#71. For one word a man is often deemed to be wise, and for one word he is often deemed to be foolish. We should be careful indeed what we say.
Confucius
#72. 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
#73. Though a man be wise it is no shame for him to live and learn.
Sophocles
#74. Redefined soul anew, bow now with pride. Reborn from the darkness, a man now wise.
Tyler J. Hebert
#75. An ignorant man is always able to say yes or no immediately to any proposition. To a wise man, comparatively few things can be propounded which do not require a response with qualifications, with discriminations, with proportion.
Horace Mann
#76. To educate the wise man, the State exists; and with the appearance of the wise man, the State expires. The appearance of charactermakes the state unnecessary. The wise man is the State.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#77. I am no wise man. Every day shows me how little I know about life, and how wrong I can be. But there are things I know to be true. I know I will die. And I know that the only sane response to such a horror is to love.
Nando Parrado
#78. A man is not called wise because he talks and talks again; but if he is peaceful, loving and fearless then he is in truth called wise.
Gautama Buddha
#79. Moderately wise each one should be, Not overwise, for a wise man's heart Is seldom glad (Norse Wisdom)
Edith Hamilton
#80. Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness to someone else ... Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.
Hermann Hesse
#81. This is what the LORD says: 'Let not the wise man boast of his wisdom or the strong man boast of his strength or the rich man boast of his riches, but let him who boasts boast about this: that he understands and knows me"' (Jer 9:23-24).
J.I. Packer
#82. A wise man's goal shouldn't be to say something profound, but to say something useful.
Criss Jami
#83. I am not a 'wise man,' nor . . . shall I ever be. And so require not from me that I should be equal to the best, but that I should be better than the wicked. It is enough for me if every day I reduce the number of my vices, and blame my mistakes.
Seneca.
#84. A wise man hears one word and understands two.
Anonymous
#86. The Virtue and unpretentiousness of the wise man, which I am talking about, goes unnoticed because of its transparent ordinariness.
Alan Jacobs
#87. ASK any wise man what he most desires and he will, more than likely, say more wisdom.
Napoleon Hill
#88. One should follow a man of wisdom who rebukes one for one's faults, as one would follow a guide to some buried treasure. To one who follows such a wise man, it will be an advantage and not a disadvantage.
Gautama Buddha
#89. To become wise you have to want to experience certain experiences, and so to run into their open jaws. This is very dangerous, tobe sure; many a "wise man" has been eaten up in doing so.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#90. Fortune seldom troubles the wise man. Reason has controlled his greatest and most important affairs, controls them throughout his life, and will continue to control them.
Epicurus
#91. He who despises a poor man's wisdom has turned away great riches.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#92. That man is best who sees the truth himself. Good too is he who listens to wise counsel. But who is neither wise himself nor willing to ponder wisdom is not worth a straw.
Hesiod
#93. If man had the wisdom of age in youth and the vitality of youth in age, then he would be an eternally wise young man. (Feb 2003)
James King
#95. Hope makes the wise stronger and the unwise weaker.
Raheel Farooq
#96. Liars corrupt knowledge,
and fools pervert wisdom,
but the wise hallow both.
Knowledge holds the truth.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#97. Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.
Benjamin Franklin
#98. Ideals belong in a world only the wise man can understand, Marron said quietly.
Veronica Rossi
#99. The anthropologists got it wrong when they named our species Homo sapiens ('wise man'). In any case it's an arrogant and bigheaded thing to say, wisdom being one of our least evident features. In reality, we are Pan narrans, the storytelling chimpanzee.
Terry Pratchett
#100. Is there not
A tongue in every star that talks with man,
And wooes him to be wise? nor wooes in vain;
This dead of midnight is the noon of thought,
And wisdom mounts her zenith with the stars.
Anna Laetitia Barbauld
