Wise Men Quotes

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A wise man speaks because he has something to say; a fool because he has to say something.

I once heard a wise man say there are no perfect men. Only perfect intentions.

All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes.

No Man is wise at all Times, or is without his blind Side.

Animals feed themselves; men eat; but only wise men know the art of eating

Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men.

Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men?

A fool despises good counsel, but a wise man takes it to heart.

A woman is a mystery to guide a wise and open man.

Oppression makes a wise man mad.

For the wise man, every day is a festival.

At Athens, wise men propose, and fools dispose.

The skilful employer of men will employ the wise man, the brave man, the covetous man, and the stupid man.

Wise man is a good Sherpa; he takes you to the highest places!

A truly wise man does not play leapfrog with a unicorn.

Wise man is the rooster of the universe: He awakens the unawake!

Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.

In Greece wise men speak and fools decide.

Beware of a man of one book.

The busy man is never wise and the wise man is never busy.

Everyday is a new life to a wise man.

Many's the man/ who thought himself wise/ but what he needed/ he did not know.

The cunning man steals a horse, the wise man lets him alone.

Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.

Fools call wise men fools. A wise man never calls any man a fool.

The man who walks with wise men becomes wise himself.

Men are not intelligent when it comes to cheating, but they're wise enough to choose a woman who will put up with it.

Wise men have more to learn of fools than fools of wise men.

A wise man seeks much counsel...a fool listens to all of it.

As a wise man once said, 'If not us, then who; if not now, then when?'

I don't fancy colors of the face, I'm always attracted to colors of the brain.

The fool wanders, a wise man travels.

Quietude, which some men cannot abide because it reveals their inward poverty, is as a palace of cedar to the wise, for along its hallowed courts the King in his beauty deigns to walk.

It is much easier to make good men wise, than to make bad men good.

Let men be wise by instinct if they can, but when this fails be wise by good advice.

The best fights are the ones you don't have", a wise man once said to me.

As a wise man once said: Wherever you go, there you are.

The wind in a man's face makes him wise.

I am wise enough to know that there are some perils from which a man must flee.

But wise is the man who disdains no character, but with searching glance explores him to the root and cause of all.

Ah, on what little things does happiness depend! I have read all that the wise men have written, and all the secrets of philosophy are mine, yet for want of a red rose is my life made wretched.

There is no one thoroughly despicable. We cannot descend much lower than an idiot; and an idiot has some advantages over a wise man.

Wise Man: One who sees the storm coming before the clouds appear.

The proper study of a wise man is not how to die but how to live.

Though wise men at their end know dark is right, Because their words had forked no lightning they Do not go gentle into that good night.

We must have passed through life unobservantly, if we have never perceived that a man is very much himself what he thinks of others.

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

Experience makes more timid men than it does wise ones.

No man was more foolish when he had not a pen in his hand, or more wise when he had

Wise men say nothing in dangerous times