Words matter. These are the best Wise Man Quotes from famous people such as Roy H. Williams, Solomon Burke, Jonathan Swift, Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, Baron Vaughn, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
A smart man makes a mistake, learns from it, and never makes that mistake again. But a wise man finds a smart man and learns from him how to avoid the mistake altogether.
That was my choice at that time, and I still say Nixon was a great president. A very beautiful and wise man.
No wise man ever wished to be younger.
A wise man will live as much within his wit as within his income.
In New Mexico, my local church did a nativity play, and I was cast as Wise Man #3. Of course, Wise Man #3 had no damn lines. Wise Man #1 had all the lines! I stood there thinking, ‘I could do that role so much better!’ From that moment on, I knew I wanted to be an actor.
Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.
For the wise man looks into space and he knows there is no limited dimensions.
He was a wise man who invented beer.
Nothing can confound a wise man more than laughter from a dunce.
The shallow consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise man sees in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws.
A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
The wise man doesn’t give the right answers, he poses the right questions.
The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.
A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.
The wise man regulates his conduct by the theories both of religion and science. But he regards these theories not as statements of ultimate fact but as art-forms.
A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses.
Keep to the middle if you wish to keep moderation. The mid way is the safe way. Moderation abides in the mean, and moderation is virtue. Every abiding place outside the bounds of moderation is only exile to the wise man.
Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.
Any fool can wash himself, but every wise man knows that it is an unnecessary labour, for nature will quickly reduce him to a natural and healthy dirtiness again.
Who then is free? The wise man who can command himself.
The man who has sufficient power over himself to wait until his nature has recovered its even balance is the truly wise man, but such beings are seldom met with.
The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forbearing.
Wise kings generally have wise counselors; and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one.
I myself think that the wise man meddles little or not at all in affairs and does his own things.
The Dalai Lama. He is a very wise man of great inner peace who believes that happiness is the purpose of our lives. Through his teachings and leadership, he continues to make this world a better place in which to live.
A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant.
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.
A smart man only believes half of what he hears, a wise man knows which half.
Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital. The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket.
A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.
Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life.
The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.
If a wise man behaves prudently, how can he be overcome by his enemies? Even a single man, by right action, can overcome a host of foes.
Since, therefore, no man is born without faults, and he is esteemed the best whose errors are the least, let the wise man consider everything human as connected with himself; for in worldly affairs there is no perfect happiness under heaven.
The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world.
All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.
Putting is not an art, it’s a dreaded evil. No wise man ever said that.
Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.
A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
The fool wanders, a wise man travels.
Mr. Steven Bochco is a very wise man. After a many-monthed nationwide search to find a precocious teenage doctor, he hired me.
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.
He was a wise man who originated the idea of God.
To speak and to speak well, are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
The wise man does not grow old, but ripens.
A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men.
A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.
A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.
Life is a pilgrimage. The wise man does not rest by the roadside inns. He marches direct to the illimitable domain of eternal bliss, his ultimate destination.
It is a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals.
A wise man has to always listen to the peers he surrounds around himself. That’s why you surround yourself with other smart people. Captain Kirk keep Mr. Spock right beside him.
The conqueror is regarded with awe; the wise man commands our respect; but it is only the benevolent man that wins our affection.
A wise man does not chatter with one whose mind is sick.
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.
The wise man knows how to run his life so that contemplation is Possible.
It takes a very wise man to act the fool.
