Wise Men Quotes

The wise man puts himself last and finds himself first.

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

We all suffer. If a man's wise, he learns from it.

A wise man, therefore, proportions his belief to the evidence.

The honor paid to a wise man is a great good for those who honor him.

The wise man of Miletus thus declared the first of things is water

Wise is the man who contents himself with the spectacle of the world.

Fools need advice most, but wise men only are the better for it.

For never, never, wicked man was wise.

Look deep into the hearts of men, and see what delights and disgusts the wise.

Whatever be the motives which induce men to write,--whether avarice or fame,--the country becomes more wise and happy in which they most serve for instructors.

The stubborn stops when finding a mistake, the wise man will not stop until finding the true.

Show is not substance; realities govern wise men.

Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

Those who are held Wise among men and who search the reasons of things, are those who bring the most sorrow on themselves.

Man must suffer to be wise.

The Errors of a Wise Man make your Rule Rather than the Perfections of a Fool.

If thou hast never been a fool, be sure thou wilt never be a wise man.

Being wise doth either make men our friends or discourage them from being our enemies.

Mr. Steven Bochco is a very wise man. After a many-monthed nationwide search to find a precocious teenage doctor, he hired me.

Men are never very wise and select in the exercise of a new power.

Men may be born free; they cannot be born wise; and it is the duty of the university to make the free wise.

Wise men say, only fools rush in. Wise men are so slow.

Where have all the good men gone, and where are all the gods? Where's the street-wise Hercules, to fight the rising odds?

The wise men were all fools, what to do?

Fools make news, and wise men carry it.

He who can properly summarize many ideas in a brief statement, is a wise man.

Action men are the unvoluntary slaves of wise men.

Hee commands enough that obeyes a wise man.

The life of a wise man is most of all extemporaneous, for he lives out of an eternity which includes all time.

Of themselves diseases come upon men continually by day and by night, bringing mischief to mortals silently; for wise Zeus took away speech from them. So is there no way to escape the will of Zeus

...he'll never lie - the man is far too wise.

A wise man neither suffers himself to be governed, nor attempts to govern others.

Fools learn nothing from wise men, but wise men learn much from fools.

The wise man doesn't compete; therefore nobody can compete with him.

Now we are expected to be as wise as men who have had generations of all the help there is, and we scarcely anything.

Forest is the best port of the wise man!

For to err in opinion, though it be not the part of wise men, is at least human.

When Eudæmonidas heard a philosopher arguing that only a wise man can be a good general, "This is a wonderful speech," said he; "but he that saith it never heard the sound of trumpets.

The wise man guards against the future as if it were the present.

The wise man thinks once before he speaks twice.

There are men who think themselves too wise to be religious.

When facts speak, the wise man listens.

Those men that in their writings are most wise Own nothing but their blind, stupefied hearts.

The assembled souls of all that men held wise.

Cunning to wise, is as an Ape to a Man.

We are braver and wiser because they existed, those strong women and strong men... We are who we are because they were who they were. It's wise to know where you come from, who called your name.

Please others and you please yourself

People think that whatever comes out of the mouth of a wise man is the choicest gem, sometime it's utter stupidity and rubbish

True freedom is in not having a master, but in making the master your slave