Words Of A Wise Man Quotes

#1. The words of a wise man's mouth are gracious; but the lips of a fool will swallow up himself.

Doris Lessing

#2. What do I know of cultured ways, the gilt, the craft and the lie?
I, who was born in a naked land and bred in the open sky.
The subtle tongue, the sophist guile, they fail when the broadswords sing;
Rush in and die, dogs - I was a man before I was a king.

Robert E. Howard

#3. Pride leads to down fall o f man.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#4. Let the fools hold on to their treasured stupidity
Let yourself be safe in wisdom with much rapidity

Munia Khan

#5. If a man can save himself, there is no need for a Saviour.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#6. 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

#7. Facts are ventriloquist's dummies. Sitting on a wise man's knee they may be made to utter words of wisdom; elsewhere, they say nothing, or talk nonsense, or indulge in sheer diabolism.

Aldous Huxley

#8. Shall we accept the testimony of a man, yet reject the Truth of God.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#9. You know who you are, he said-
that intimidates boys but oneday a man will come along and value that exact part in you.

- Wise words from my best friend.

Nikki Rowe

#10. 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

#11. Not to discuss with a man worthy of conversation is to waste the man. To discuss with a man not worthy of conversation is to waste words. The wise waste neither men nor words.

Confucius

#12. Making some noise in the woods is a thing that one can forget. The sound of a man's voice on the other hand, is something else entirely.

Angelo Tsanatelis

#13. Now this relaxation of the mind from work consists on playful words or deeds. Therefore it becomes a wise and virtuous man to have recourse to such things at times.

Thomas Aquinas

#14. 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

#15. The graveyard is every man final resting place.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#16. There is a feeling of deep universalism, in the wake of the splendid words of Democritus: "To a wise man, the whole earth is open, because the true country of a virtuous soul is the entire universe.

Carlo Rovelli

#17. A man and a woman represent two heavenly beings.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#18. Can you see a serene island in the middle of a stormy ocean? And the wise man is that calm island!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#19. I whispered to him,
You'll regret it if you let me go.
I don't wait for a man, if he's not willing to grow'
He didn't believe me, he made his choice
&
That was the last time, he ever heard my voice.

Nikki Rowe

#20. Your father says a wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountaintop.

Deborah Harkness

#21. The eye of a man is never satisfied with seeing.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#22. The wine urges me on, the bewitching wine, which sets even a wise man to singing and to laughing gently and rouses him up to dance and brings forth words which were better unspoken.

Homer

#23. Hundreds of wise men cannot make the world a heaven, but one idiot is enough to turn it into a hell.

Raheel Farooq

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

Lailah Gifty Akita

#25. 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