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.
- Heinrich Heine
A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times.
- Lord Acton
The best fights are the ones you don't have, a wise man once said to me.
- Lee Child
For this is the mark of a wise and upright man, not to rail against the gods in misfortune.
- Aeschylus
From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.
- Publilius Syrus
The truth is, part of me is every age. I'm a three-year-old, I'm a five-year-old, I'm a thirty-seven-year-old, I'm a fifty-year-old. I've been through all of them, and I know what it's like. I delight in being a child when it's appropriate to be a child. I delight in being a wise old man when it's appropriate to be a wise old man. Think of all I can be! I am every age, up to my own.
- Mitch Albom
One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.
- Amos Bronson Alcott
She began to see that character is a better possession than money, rank, intellect, or beauty, and to feel that if greatness is what a wise man has defined it to be, 'truth, reverence, and good will,' then her friend Friedrich Bhaer was not only good, but great.
- Louisa May Alcott
Clary grinned. "A picnic? It's a little late for Central Park, don't you think? It's full of-"
He waved a hand. "Faeries. I know."
"I was going to say muggers," said Clary. "Though I pity the mugger who goes after you."
"That is a wise attitude, and I commend you for it," said Jace, looking gratified.
- Cassandra Clare
there is an imbalance of power. It is an imbalance that is easy to exploit, but it is not a wise course. Where there is love, there is often also hate. They can exist side by side. - jace
- Cassandra Clare
It is a wiser, more generous, more noble thing to remember and point out the perfect words, than to invent poorer ones, wherewith to encumber temporarily the world.
- John Ruskin
The only competition worthy of a wise man is with himself.
- Washington Allston
We need books...because we are all, in the private kingdoms of our hearts, desperate for the company of a wise, true friend.
- Steve Almond
His grandfather had often told him that he tried too hard to move trees when a wiser man would walk around them.
- Patricia Briggs
A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circlue of our felicities.
- Thomas Jefferson
A beautiful woman delights the eye; a wise woman, the understanding; a pure one, the soul.
- Minna Antrim
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.
- Plato
He was a wise man who invented beer.
- Plato
To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man.
- Aristotle
A wise person decides slowly but abides by these decisions.
- Arthur Ashe
A wise man has tolerance for such people. A wise man walks away or finds a means of changing the way they think.
- Melina Marchetta
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
- Francis Bacon
Daisy said boldly. "Nothing
ventured, nothing gained."
"Yes, but it is a wise man who understands his limits."
"Who said that?" Daisy asked.
"I did," Honoria answered impatiently
- Julia Quinn
I remeber asking a wise man, once... 'Why do Men fear the dark?'... 'Because darkness' he told me, 'is ignorance made visable.' 'And do Men despise ignorance?' I asked. 'No,' he said, 'they prize it above all things--all things!--but only so long as it remains invisible.
- R Scott Bakker
Perhaps a wiser eye than hers would be able to read tomorrow in tonight's stars, but where was the fun in that? It was better not to know. Better to be alive in the Here and the Now--in this bright, laughing moment--and let the Hours to come take care of themselves.
- Clive Barker
You know, I met a wise man centuries ago in China who said to me, 'He who lets fear rule him, has fear for a master. (Acheron)
Confucius? (Talon)
No, Minh-Quan. He was a fisherman who used to sell what I'm told was the best zong zi ever made. (Acheron)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
You know, it's amazing to me the wounds we carry for eternity. But what has fascinated me most these last few years is how the right person can heal them. I remember a wise man once said to me that everyone deserves to be loved. Even you. (Zarek)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
He looked down at her. "Have you found that peace?"
Yes, she had. But it was so corny and cliched that she couldn't bring herself to admit it.
"A wise man once told me that peace has to come from within. We have to learn to like ourselves before we can find our place in the world.
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.
- Diogenes Of Sinope
There is only a finger's difference between a wise man and a fool.
- Diogenes Of Sinope
Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.
- Blaise Pascal
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
We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more mystical concept of animals. In a world older and more complete than ours they move finished and complete, gifted with extensions of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear. They are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendour and travail of the earth.
- Henry Beston
You won't be a wiser man if you always
keep away from bad people or poor ones.
- Toba Beta
Smartass Disciple: My master, please show me how to be a wise man!
Master of Stupidity: I can't. But I can show you how to do something wisely.
- Toba Beta
A wise man can be a fool in love.
- Chetan Bhagat
A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.
- William Blake
A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.
- William Shakespeare
It is a wise father that knows his own child.
- William Shakespeare
A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.
- Samuel Johnson
A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.
- Samuel Johnson
It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it may happen that those who need sympathy the most often attract it the least.
- F H Bradley
But will he come I just want to know what you think the odds are. Tell me what you really think." "I think Tibby was a wise girl. I think she loved you.
- Ann Brashares
They're mutually incompatible I feel; being a wise thief and a wise father.
- Andre Braugher
Don't confess to being a fool or a wise man; let others decide for you
- Nancy B Brewer
A fool shouts charge when he should retreat, A coward shouts retreat when he should charge and a wise man knows the difference. I charge.
- Tonny K Brown
Nothing is as dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is to be preferred.
- Jean De La Fontaine
In honesty you have to admit to a wise man that prayer is not for the wise, not for the prudent, not for the sophisticated. Instead it is for those who recognize that in face of their deepest needs, all their wisdom is quite helpless. It is for those who are willing to persist in doing something that is both childish and crucial.
- Frederick Buechner
A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.
- Edward G Bulwerlytton
Money is the root of all evil.' Then we hear, 'A fool and his money are soon parted.' What are they talking about? If money is so evil, shouldn't it be, 'A wise man and his money are soon parted'? And another thing, how does a fool get money in the first place? I know some fools who have a lot of money, but they won't tell me how they got it, and I won't tell them.
- George Burns
It is delightful to transport one's self into the spirit of the past, to see how a wise man has thought before us
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Gruff," I said, "I find myself largely clueless about why mortal women do what they do. It will take a wiser man than me to understand what's in a fae woman's mind.
- Jim Butcher
Who the hell are you?' he growled. 'I the hell am Harry,' I said. He pulled out his own gym bag and slammed the car door closed. 'You always a wiseass? 'No. Sometimes I'm asleep.
- Jim Butcher
It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents.
- Samuel Butler
Any fool can paint a picture, but it takes a wise man to be able to sell it.
- Samuel Butler
A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.
- Albert Einstein
There is no one thoroughly despicable. We cannot descend much lower than an idiot; and an idiot has some advantages over a wise man.
- William Hazlitt
A wise traveler never despises his own country.
- William Hazlitt
It is not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.
- William Hazlitt
Nothing can confound a wise man more than laughter from a dunce.
- George Byron
Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.
- Voltaire
It is a wise man who knows where courage ends and stupidity begins.
- Jerome Cady
Where does a wise man hide a leaf? In the forest. But what does he do if there is no forest? He grows a forest to hide it in.
- Gilbert K Chesterton
The true task of spiritual life is not found in faraway places or unusual states of consciousness. It is here in the present. It asks of us a welcoming spirit to greet all that life presents to us with a wise, respectful, and kindly heart. We can bow to both beauty and suffering, to our entanglements and confusion, to our fears and to the injustices of the world. Honoring the truth in this way is the path to freedom.
- Jack Canfield
The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.
- Benjamin Franklin
A wise man looks upon men as he does on horses; all their comparisons of title, wealth, and place, he consider but as harness.
- Robert Cecil
Could there ever be a wise man without the wisdom or life or without the death of illusion?
- Sorin Cerin
The essential and defining characteristic of childhood is not the effortless merging of dream and reality, but only alienation. There are no words for childhood's dark turns and exhalations. A wise child recognizes it and submits to the necessary consequences. A child who counts the cost is a child no longer.
- Stephen King
A wise man will live as much within his wit as within his income.
- Lord Chesterfield
There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.
- John Churton Collins
So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
The only real difference between a wise man and a fool, Moore knew, was that the wise man tended to make more serious mistakesand only because no one trusted a fool with really crucial decisions; only the wise had the opportunity to lose battles, or nations.
- Tom Clancy
A wise man once said that all human activity is a form of play. And the highest form of play is the search for Truth, Beauty and Love. What more is needed? Should there be a 'meaning' as well, that will be a bonus? If we waste time looking for life's meaning, we may have no time to live or to play.
- Arthur C Clarke
It's a wise thing to hold back.
- Julian Clary
Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.
- Dwight D Eisenhower
A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe, and leaves before she is left.
- Marilyn Monroe
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.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
He went like one that hath been stunn'd,
And is of sense forlorn:
A sadder and a wiser man
He rose the morrow morn.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.
- Will Durant
He Who Knows And Knows That He Knows Is A Wise Man - Follow Him;
He Who Knows Not And Knows Not That He Knows Not Is A Fool - Shun Him
- Confucius
A common man marvels at uncommon things. A wise man marvels at the commonplace.
- Confucius
When a wise man points at the moon the imbecile examines the finger.
- Confucius
All places that the eye of heaven visits/ Are to a wise man ports and happy havens:/ Think not the king did banish thee:/ But thou the king. --Richard II
- James F Cooper
A smart man only believes half of what he hears, a wise man knows which half.
- Jeff Cooper
Even voting for the right is doing nothing for it. It is only expressing to men feebly your desire that it should prevail. A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority. There is but little virtue in the action of masses of men.
- Henry David Thoreau
The impression made on a wise man is that of universal innocence. Poison is not poisonous after all, nor are any wounds fatal. Compassion is a very untenable ground. It must be expeditious. Its pleadings will not bear to be stereotyped.
- Henry David Thoreau
I believe that water is the only drink for a wise man.
- Henry David Thoreau
Recently I heard a 'wise guy' story that I had a party at my home for twenty-five men. It's an interesting story, but I don't know twenty-five men I'd want to invite ta a party.
- Joan Crawford
A wisely chosen illustration is almost essential to fasten the truth upon the ordinary mind, and no teacher can afford to neglect this part of his preparation.
- Howard Crosby
Who was to know what went on in a person's heart? A wise woman kept her own counsel.
- Donna Woolfolk Cross
it's a wise parent who allows her children to give up the things of childhood in their own time.
- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Even if we could grow our way out of the crisis and delay the inevitable and painful reconciliation of virtual and real wealth, there is the question of whether this would be a wise thing to do. Marginal costs of additional growth in rich countries, such as global warming, biodiversity loss and roadways choked with cars, now likely exceed marginal benefits of a little extra consumption. The end result is that promoting further economic growth makes us poorer, not richer.
- Herman E Daly
I am quite a wise old bird, but I am no desert hermit who can only prophesy when his guts are knotted with hunger. I am deep in the old man's puzzle, trying to link the wisdom of the body with the wisdom of the spirit until the two are one.
- Robertson Davies
The question of dying becomes a wise reminder. It cures us of our innocence of the future.
- Don Delillo
It takes a wise man to discover a wise man.
- Diogenes
Wise kings generally have wise counselors; and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one.
- Diogenes
Everyone breathes in air, but it's a wise person who knows when to use that air to speak and when to exhale in silence.
- Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
It takes a wise man to handle a lie, a fool had better remain honest.
- Norman Douglas
A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
- Michel De Montaigne
A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
- Michel De Montaigne
In peace, as a wise man, he should make suitable preparation for war.
- Horace
That is a good question for you to ask, not a wise question for me to answer.
- Anthony Eden
Good advice is a wise man's friend, of course; but sometimes it just flies on past, and all you can do is wave.
- Leif Enger
I'm the one who steps from the shadows, all trenchcoat and cigarette and arrogance, ready to deal with the madness. Oh, I've got it all sewn up. I can save you. If it takes the last drop of your blood, I'll drive your demons away. I'll kick them in the bollocks and spit on them when they're down and then I'll be gone back into darkness, leaving only a nod and a wink and a wisecrack. I walk my path alone... who would walk with me?
- Garth Ennis
He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
- Epictetus
The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forbearing.
- Epictetus
He was a wise man who originated the idea of God.
- Euripides
The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man.
- Euripides
And I hope that five years and 10 years from now, I'll be a better man, a more mature man, a wiser man, a more humble man and a more spirited man to serve the good of my people and the good of humanity.
- Louis Farrakhan
I am not the same man I was 35 years ago. And I hope that five years and ten years from now, I'll be a better man, a more mature man, a wiser man, a more humble man and a more spirited man to serve the good of my people and the good of humanity.
- Louis Farrakhan
Dolgan: 'Tis a wise thing to know what is wanted, and wiser still to know when 'tis achieved.
Rhuagh: True. And still wiser to know when it is unachievable, for then striving is folly.
- Raymond E Feist
Everything is always a story, but the loveliest ones are those that get written and are not torn up and are taken to a friend as payment for listening, for putting a wise keyhole to the ear of my mind
- Janet Frame
It is a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals.
- Felix Frankfurter
Travel makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.
- Thomas Fuller
The fool wanders, a wise man travels.
- Thomas Fuller
A fool's paradise is a wise man's hell!
- Thomas Fuller
A wise man turns chance into good fortune.
- Thomas Fuller
The mountains had their own time, and a wise man did not try to hurry them.
- Diana Gabaldon
A wise man's question contains half the answer.
- Solomon Ibn Gabirol
A wise man once said: "Are we human because we gaze at the stars, or do we gaze at the stars because we are human?" Pointless, really. Now, do the stars gaze back? That is a question.
- Neil Gaiman
I will be a wise and tolerant monarch, dispencing justice fairly, and only setting nightmares to rip out the winds of the evil and the wicked. Or just anybody that I don't like.
- Neil Gaiman
The soul of man is the lamp of God,' says a wise Jewish proverb. Man is a weak and miserable creature when God's light is not burning in his soul. But when it burns (and it only burns in souls enlightened by religion), man becomes the most powerful creature in the world. And it cannot be otherwise, for what then works in him is not his own strength, but the strength of God.
- Leo Tolstoy
Now, the error which many parents commit in the treatment of the individual at this time(adolescense) is, insisting on the same unreasoning obedience as when all he had to do in the way of duty was, to obey the simple laws of "Come when you're called," and "Do as you're bid!" But a wise parent humours the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and adviser when his absolute rule shall cease.
- Elizabeth Gaskell
A wise parent humors the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and advisor when his absolute rule shall cease.
- Elizabeth Gaskell
A wise man's questions surpass the answers of the fool, but the silence of the enlightened is divine. Meditation is the key.
- J Gabriel Gates
My firm resolve was to escape my wicked cousin and my English captors. But the wind was howling, and rain was coming down in sheets. And even as I relaxed in a hot bath in my snug apartments, the clamor of the storm outside was counseling me to be patient and wait.
A wise woman never does anything in a hurry.
- Margaret George
The mobilisation which Bush has been able to perform since 11 September 2001 has to be fought - at least by Americans - in the name of a wise, honourable and democratic patriotism.
- Todd Gitlin
A wise traveler never depreciates their own country.
- Carlo Goldoni
A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
- Baltasar Gracian
A wise government knows how to enforce with temper, or to conciliate with dignity.
- George Grenville
If he cannot be infinite - his lov emeeting its eventual exhaustion, his light its shadows - this is the nature of landscapes. The forest meets mountain, the sea the shore. Brain meets bone, meets skin, meets hair; meets air. Day would not be, without night. Every limit, a wise woman once wrote, is a beginning as well as an ending.
- Lauren Groff
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
I don't think a wise thing at this moment is for Israel to launch a military attack on Iran.
- William Hague
Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author?
- Philip Gilbert Hamerton
Moderately wise each one should be,
Not overwise, for a wise man's heart
Is seldom glad (Norse Wisdom)
- Edith Hamilton
It's a wise person, I guess, who knows he's dumb, and an honest person who knows he's a liar. And it's a dumb person, I guess, whose convinced he's wise...-Bob Slocum
- Joseph Heller
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
It is a wise man that does know the contented man is never poor, whilst the discontented man is never rich.
- Frank Herbert
The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.
- Herodotus
Jimmy Lee Baylis was a wise man, and knew better than to talk back to the man who signed his paycheck.
- Carl Hiaasen
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.
- Hippocrates
Libraries are like houses of worship: Whether or not you use them yourself, it's important to know that they are there. In many ways they define a society and the values of that society. Librarians to me are the keepers of the flame of knowledge. When I was growing up, the librarian in my local library looked like a meek little old lady, but after you spent some time with her, you realized she was Athena with a sword, a wise and wonderful repository of wisdom.
- Jane Stanton Hitchcock
A wise man should so write (though in words understood by all men) that wise men only should be able to commend him.
- Thomas Hobbes
A wise man sees the path all must walk and embraces the free will of humankind, even if to watch it unfold causes him pain.
- Colleen Houck
His eyes drifted leisurely back up to my face and he smiled at me appreciatively, "Kelsey, when a man spends time with a beautiful woman, he needs to pace himself. I quirked my eyebrow at him and laughed. "Yeah, I'm a regular marathon alright." He kissed my fingers. "Exactly. A wise man never sprints...in a marathon.
- Colleen Houck
And while the sun and moon endure Luck's a chance but trouble's sure, I'd face it as a wise man would, And train for ill and not for good.
- A E Housman
Therefore, since the world has still
Much good, but much less good than ill,
And while the sun and moon endure
Luck's a chance, but trouble's sure,
I'd face it as a wise man would,
And train for ill and not for good.
- A E Housman
We pursued the wrong policies. George Bush is not on the ballot. Bill Clinton is not on the ballot. Mitt Romney is on the ballot, and Barack Obama is on the ballot. And Mitt Romney is proposing tax reform, regulatory reform, a wise budget strategy and trade. The president has proposed tax increases.
- Glenn Hubbard
Even a wise man knows doubt from time to time, it is the fool who allows it to rule his judgement.
- Jennifer Hudock
A fool will study for twenty or thirty years and learn how to do something, but a wise man will study for twenty or thirty minutes and become an expert. In this world, it isn't ability that counts, but authority.
- Barry Hughart
A wise man apportions his beliefs to the evidence.
- David Hume
A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.
- David Hume
It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to.
- Fannie Hurst
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
The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.
- Anna Jameson
How grateful we should be that a wise Creator fashioned an earth and placed us here, with a veil of forgetfulness of our previous existence so that we might experience a time of testing, an opportunity to prove ourselves in order to qualify for all that God has prepared for us to receive.
- Thomas S Monson
SAGE. A wise and Holy man who died a long time ago. No one modern qualifies.
- Diana Wynne Jones
To speak and to speak well, are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
- Ben Jonson
A wise ruler takes advice, but should never be seen to take it. Let them think you know more than you do. It will not harm them, and it will help you.
- Robert Jordan
If anger were money, only a fool would greedily save it up. And a wise man would let it slip out of his heart like change slips out of his pants pockets.
- Jarod Kintz
If our limbic system betrays our true intentions, and it's beyond our conscious control, then only a fool would consider lying a wise course of action. Politicians are full of such wisdom.
- Jarod Kintz
Even a fool recognizes that there is great sadness in a bucket of tears. But only a wise man thinks to conserve water and use that bucket to wash his car.
- Jarod Kintz
Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
- W B Yeats
A wise man once said, 'Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
- Miranda Kenneally
Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.
- Alexander Pope
An intelligent person can rationalize anything, a wise person doesn't try.
- Jen Knox
A wise man fights to win, but he is twice a fool who has no plan for possible defeat.
- Louis Lamour
It isor seems to bea wise sort of thing, to realise that all that happens to a man in this life is only by way of joke, especially his misfortunes, if he have them. And it is also worth bearing in mind, that the joke is passed round pretty liberally & impartially, so that not very many are entitled to fancy that they in particular are getting the worst of it.
- Herman Melville
A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.
- Bruce Lee
The Calormens have dark faces and long beards. They wear flowing robes and orange-colored turbans, and they are a wise, wealthy, courteous, cruel and ancient people. They bowed most politely to Caspian and paid him long compliments all about the fountains of prosperity irrigating the gardens of prudence and virtue --and things like that-- but of course what they wanted was the money they had paid.
- C S Lewis
A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
A wise man travels to discover himself.
- James Russell Lowell
A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn.
- John Lubbock
The only hope I can see for the future depends on a wiser and braver use of the reason, not a panic flight from it.
- F L Lucas
A wise man once said that we can't make anyone feel or do anything. We can throw things into the wind, but it's up to each person to decide how they want to react, where they want to stand when things fall.
- Jonathan Maberry
A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests.
- Niccolo Machiavelli
Therefore a wise prince, marching the whole day, does not go far from his baggage waggons.
- Lao Tzu
A wise man can play the part of a clown, but a clown can't play the part of a wise man.
- Malcolm X
A wise teacher learns in the midst of teaching; a wise student teaches in the midst of learning.
- Mollie Marti
A wise man once remarked that we can count how many seeds are in the apple, but not how many apples are in the seed.
- Wendy Mass
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
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 a fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient; and looking upon them only as sick and extravagant.
- Seneca
True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The gratest blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.
- Seneca
Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool
- Seneca
I forget who it was that recommended men for their soul's good to do each day two things they disliked: it was a wise man, and it is a precept that I have followed scrupulously; for every day I have got up and I have gone to bed.
- W Somerset Maugham
A wise nation should cultivate a political spirit that allows opponents to cooperate without fearing an automatic execution from their core supporters. Who knew that the real rogues in American politics would be the ones who dare to get along?
- Jon Meacham
It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods.
- H L Mencken
A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.
- Moliere
The Biblical world view sees Earth and its ecosystems as the effect of a wise God's creation and... therefore robust, resilient, and self-regulating, like the product of any good engineer.
- Christopher Monckton
A wise man from my home once told me that these mountains have seen far too much suffering and killing, and that each rock and every boulder you see represents a mujahadeen who died fighting either the Russians or the Taliban. Then the man went on to say that now that the fighting is finished, it is time to build a new era of peace-and the first step in that process is to take up the stones and start turning them into schools.
- Greg Mortenson
A wise reader reads the book of genius not with his heart, not so much with his brain, but with his spine. It is there that occurs the telltale tingle..
- Vladimir Nabokov
anyone can create the future but only a wise man can create the past
- Vladimir Nabokov
A wise person is like a smoothly polished rock: it takes time to become either.
- Vera Nazarian
I see a wiser person than when I was younger: having babies, and passing 30, were the turning points. What women in their 40s - I am 39 - lack in gorgeousness, they make up for in wisdom. I love ageing, despite the drawbacks - thinner, drier skin.
- Thandie Newton
A person can be educated and still be stupid, and a wise man can have no education at all.
- Jennifer A Nielsen
Above all, I would not expect a wise race, at great expense, to set loose an army of self-replicating robots.
- Barney Oliver
Sotomayor's vainglorious lecture bromide about herself as "a wise Latina" trumping white men is a vulgar embarrassment - a vestige of the bad old days of male-bashing feminism.
- Camille Paglia
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.
- Saskya Pandita
One conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study in a public school.
- D Byron Patterson
Knowledge is the treasure of a wise man.
- William Penn
- Heinrich Heine
A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times.
- Lord Acton
The best fights are the ones you don't have, a wise man once said to me.
- Lee Child
For this is the mark of a wise and upright man, not to rail against the gods in misfortune.
- Aeschylus
From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.
- Publilius Syrus
The truth is, part of me is every age. I'm a three-year-old, I'm a five-year-old, I'm a thirty-seven-year-old, I'm a fifty-year-old. I've been through all of them, and I know what it's like. I delight in being a child when it's appropriate to be a child. I delight in being a wise old man when it's appropriate to be a wise old man. Think of all I can be! I am every age, up to my own.
- Mitch Albom
One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.
- Amos Bronson Alcott
She began to see that character is a better possession than money, rank, intellect, or beauty, and to feel that if greatness is what a wise man has defined it to be, 'truth, reverence, and good will,' then her friend Friedrich Bhaer was not only good, but great.
- Louisa May Alcott
Clary grinned. "A picnic? It's a little late for Central Park, don't you think? It's full of-"
He waved a hand. "Faeries. I know."
"I was going to say muggers," said Clary. "Though I pity the mugger who goes after you."
"That is a wise attitude, and I commend you for it," said Jace, looking gratified.
- Cassandra Clare
there is an imbalance of power. It is an imbalance that is easy to exploit, but it is not a wise course. Where there is love, there is often also hate. They can exist side by side. - jace
- Cassandra Clare
It is a wiser, more generous, more noble thing to remember and point out the perfect words, than to invent poorer ones, wherewith to encumber temporarily the world.
- John Ruskin
The only competition worthy of a wise man is with himself.
- Washington Allston
We need books...because we are all, in the private kingdoms of our hearts, desperate for the company of a wise, true friend.
- Steve Almond
His grandfather had often told him that he tried too hard to move trees when a wiser man would walk around them.
- Patricia Briggs
A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circlue of our felicities.
- Thomas Jefferson
A beautiful woman delights the eye; a wise woman, the understanding; a pure one, the soul.
- Minna Antrim
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.
- Plato
He was a wise man who invented beer.
- Plato
To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man.
- Aristotle
A wise person decides slowly but abides by these decisions.
- Arthur Ashe
A wise man has tolerance for such people. A wise man walks away or finds a means of changing the way they think.
- Melina Marchetta
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
- Francis Bacon
Daisy said boldly. "Nothing
ventured, nothing gained."
"Yes, but it is a wise man who understands his limits."
"Who said that?" Daisy asked.
"I did," Honoria answered impatiently
- Julia Quinn
I remeber asking a wise man, once... 'Why do Men fear the dark?'... 'Because darkness' he told me, 'is ignorance made visable.' 'And do Men despise ignorance?' I asked. 'No,' he said, 'they prize it above all things--all things!--but only so long as it remains invisible.
- R Scott Bakker
Perhaps a wiser eye than hers would be able to read tomorrow in tonight's stars, but where was the fun in that? It was better not to know. Better to be alive in the Here and the Now--in this bright, laughing moment--and let the Hours to come take care of themselves.
- Clive Barker
You know, I met a wise man centuries ago in China who said to me, 'He who lets fear rule him, has fear for a master. (Acheron)
Confucius? (Talon)
No, Minh-Quan. He was a fisherman who used to sell what I'm told was the best zong zi ever made. (Acheron)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
You know, it's amazing to me the wounds we carry for eternity. But what has fascinated me most these last few years is how the right person can heal them. I remember a wise man once said to me that everyone deserves to be loved. Even you. (Zarek)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
He looked down at her. "Have you found that peace?"
Yes, she had. But it was so corny and cliched that she couldn't bring herself to admit it.
"A wise man once told me that peace has to come from within. We have to learn to like ourselves before we can find our place in the world.
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.
- Diogenes Of Sinope
There is only a finger's difference between a wise man and a fool.
- Diogenes Of Sinope
Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.
- Blaise Pascal
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
We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more mystical concept of animals. In a world older and more complete than ours they move finished and complete, gifted with extensions of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear. They are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendour and travail of the earth.
- Henry Beston
You won't be a wiser man if you always
keep away from bad people or poor ones.
- Toba Beta
Smartass Disciple: My master, please show me how to be a wise man!
Master of Stupidity: I can't. But I can show you how to do something wisely.
- Toba Beta
A wise man can be a fool in love.
- Chetan Bhagat
A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.
- William Blake
A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.
- William Shakespeare
It is a wise father that knows his own child.
- William Shakespeare
A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.
- Samuel Johnson
A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.
- Samuel Johnson
It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it may happen that those who need sympathy the most often attract it the least.
- F H Bradley
But will he come I just want to know what you think the odds are. Tell me what you really think." "I think Tibby was a wise girl. I think she loved you.
- Ann Brashares
They're mutually incompatible I feel; being a wise thief and a wise father.
- Andre Braugher
Don't confess to being a fool or a wise man; let others decide for you
- Nancy B Brewer
A fool shouts charge when he should retreat, A coward shouts retreat when he should charge and a wise man knows the difference. I charge.
- Tonny K Brown
Nothing is as dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is to be preferred.
- Jean De La Fontaine
In honesty you have to admit to a wise man that prayer is not for the wise, not for the prudent, not for the sophisticated. Instead it is for those who recognize that in face of their deepest needs, all their wisdom is quite helpless. It is for those who are willing to persist in doing something that is both childish and crucial.
- Frederick Buechner
A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.
- Edward G Bulwerlytton
Money is the root of all evil.' Then we hear, 'A fool and his money are soon parted.' What are they talking about? If money is so evil, shouldn't it be, 'A wise man and his money are soon parted'? And another thing, how does a fool get money in the first place? I know some fools who have a lot of money, but they won't tell me how they got it, and I won't tell them.
- George Burns
It is delightful to transport one's self into the spirit of the past, to see how a wise man has thought before us
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Gruff," I said, "I find myself largely clueless about why mortal women do what they do. It will take a wiser man than me to understand what's in a fae woman's mind.
- Jim Butcher
Who the hell are you?' he growled. 'I the hell am Harry,' I said. He pulled out his own gym bag and slammed the car door closed. 'You always a wiseass? 'No. Sometimes I'm asleep.
- Jim Butcher
It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents.
- Samuel Butler
Any fool can paint a picture, but it takes a wise man to be able to sell it.
- Samuel Butler
A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.
- Albert Einstein
There is no one thoroughly despicable. We cannot descend much lower than an idiot; and an idiot has some advantages over a wise man.
- William Hazlitt
A wise traveler never despises his own country.
- William Hazlitt
It is not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.
- William Hazlitt
Nothing can confound a wise man more than laughter from a dunce.
- George Byron
Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.
- Voltaire
It is a wise man who knows where courage ends and stupidity begins.
- Jerome Cady
Where does a wise man hide a leaf? In the forest. But what does he do if there is no forest? He grows a forest to hide it in.
- Gilbert K Chesterton
The true task of spiritual life is not found in faraway places or unusual states of consciousness. It is here in the present. It asks of us a welcoming spirit to greet all that life presents to us with a wise, respectful, and kindly heart. We can bow to both beauty and suffering, to our entanglements and confusion, to our fears and to the injustices of the world. Honoring the truth in this way is the path to freedom.
- Jack Canfield
The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.
- Benjamin Franklin
A wise man looks upon men as he does on horses; all their comparisons of title, wealth, and place, he consider but as harness.
- Robert Cecil
Could there ever be a wise man without the wisdom or life or without the death of illusion?
- Sorin Cerin
The essential and defining characteristic of childhood is not the effortless merging of dream and reality, but only alienation. There are no words for childhood's dark turns and exhalations. A wise child recognizes it and submits to the necessary consequences. A child who counts the cost is a child no longer.
- Stephen King
A wise man will live as much within his wit as within his income.
- Lord Chesterfield
There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.
- John Churton Collins
So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
The only real difference between a wise man and a fool, Moore knew, was that the wise man tended to make more serious mistakesand only because no one trusted a fool with really crucial decisions; only the wise had the opportunity to lose battles, or nations.
- Tom Clancy
A wise man once said that all human activity is a form of play. And the highest form of play is the search for Truth, Beauty and Love. What more is needed? Should there be a 'meaning' as well, that will be a bonus? If we waste time looking for life's meaning, we may have no time to live or to play.
- Arthur C Clarke
It's a wise thing to hold back.
- Julian Clary
Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.
- Dwight D Eisenhower
A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe, and leaves before she is left.
- Marilyn Monroe
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.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
He went like one that hath been stunn'd,
And is of sense forlorn:
A sadder and a wiser man
He rose the morrow morn.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.
- Will Durant
He Who Knows And Knows That He Knows Is A Wise Man - Follow Him;
He Who Knows Not And Knows Not That He Knows Not Is A Fool - Shun Him
- Confucius
A common man marvels at uncommon things. A wise man marvels at the commonplace.
- Confucius
When a wise man points at the moon the imbecile examines the finger.
- Confucius
All places that the eye of heaven visits/ Are to a wise man ports and happy havens:/ Think not the king did banish thee:/ But thou the king. --Richard II
- James F Cooper
A smart man only believes half of what he hears, a wise man knows which half.
- Jeff Cooper
Even voting for the right is doing nothing for it. It is only expressing to men feebly your desire that it should prevail. A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority. There is but little virtue in the action of masses of men.
- Henry David Thoreau
The impression made on a wise man is that of universal innocence. Poison is not poisonous after all, nor are any wounds fatal. Compassion is a very untenable ground. It must be expeditious. Its pleadings will not bear to be stereotyped.
- Henry David Thoreau
I believe that water is the only drink for a wise man.
- Henry David Thoreau
Recently I heard a 'wise guy' story that I had a party at my home for twenty-five men. It's an interesting story, but I don't know twenty-five men I'd want to invite ta a party.
- Joan Crawford
A wisely chosen illustration is almost essential to fasten the truth upon the ordinary mind, and no teacher can afford to neglect this part of his preparation.
- Howard Crosby
Who was to know what went on in a person's heart? A wise woman kept her own counsel.
- Donna Woolfolk Cross
it's a wise parent who allows her children to give up the things of childhood in their own time.
- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Even if we could grow our way out of the crisis and delay the inevitable and painful reconciliation of virtual and real wealth, there is the question of whether this would be a wise thing to do. Marginal costs of additional growth in rich countries, such as global warming, biodiversity loss and roadways choked with cars, now likely exceed marginal benefits of a little extra consumption. The end result is that promoting further economic growth makes us poorer, not richer.
- Herman E Daly
I am quite a wise old bird, but I am no desert hermit who can only prophesy when his guts are knotted with hunger. I am deep in the old man's puzzle, trying to link the wisdom of the body with the wisdom of the spirit until the two are one.
- Robertson Davies
The question of dying becomes a wise reminder. It cures us of our innocence of the future.
- Don Delillo
It takes a wise man to discover a wise man.
- Diogenes
Wise kings generally have wise counselors; and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one.
- Diogenes
Everyone breathes in air, but it's a wise person who knows when to use that air to speak and when to exhale in silence.
- Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
It takes a wise man to handle a lie, a fool had better remain honest.
- Norman Douglas
A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
- Michel De Montaigne
A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
- Michel De Montaigne
In peace, as a wise man, he should make suitable preparation for war.
- Horace
That is a good question for you to ask, not a wise question for me to answer.
- Anthony Eden
Good advice is a wise man's friend, of course; but sometimes it just flies on past, and all you can do is wave.
- Leif Enger
I'm the one who steps from the shadows, all trenchcoat and cigarette and arrogance, ready to deal with the madness. Oh, I've got it all sewn up. I can save you. If it takes the last drop of your blood, I'll drive your demons away. I'll kick them in the bollocks and spit on them when they're down and then I'll be gone back into darkness, leaving only a nod and a wink and a wisecrack. I walk my path alone... who would walk with me?
- Garth Ennis
He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
- Epictetus
The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forbearing.
- Epictetus
He was a wise man who originated the idea of God.
- Euripides
The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man.
- Euripides
And I hope that five years and 10 years from now, I'll be a better man, a more mature man, a wiser man, a more humble man and a more spirited man to serve the good of my people and the good of humanity.
- Louis Farrakhan
I am not the same man I was 35 years ago. And I hope that five years and ten years from now, I'll be a better man, a more mature man, a wiser man, a more humble man and a more spirited man to serve the good of my people and the good of humanity.
- Louis Farrakhan
Dolgan: 'Tis a wise thing to know what is wanted, and wiser still to know when 'tis achieved.
Rhuagh: True. And still wiser to know when it is unachievable, for then striving is folly.
- Raymond E Feist
Everything is always a story, but the loveliest ones are those that get written and are not torn up and are taken to a friend as payment for listening, for putting a wise keyhole to the ear of my mind
- Janet Frame
It is a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals.
- Felix Frankfurter
Travel makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.
- Thomas Fuller
The fool wanders, a wise man travels.
- Thomas Fuller
A fool's paradise is a wise man's hell!
- Thomas Fuller
A wise man turns chance into good fortune.
- Thomas Fuller
The mountains had their own time, and a wise man did not try to hurry them.
- Diana Gabaldon
A wise man's question contains half the answer.
- Solomon Ibn Gabirol
A wise man once said: "Are we human because we gaze at the stars, or do we gaze at the stars because we are human?" Pointless, really. Now, do the stars gaze back? That is a question.
- Neil Gaiman
I will be a wise and tolerant monarch, dispencing justice fairly, and only setting nightmares to rip out the winds of the evil and the wicked. Or just anybody that I don't like.
- Neil Gaiman
The soul of man is the lamp of God,' says a wise Jewish proverb. Man is a weak and miserable creature when God's light is not burning in his soul. But when it burns (and it only burns in souls enlightened by religion), man becomes the most powerful creature in the world. And it cannot be otherwise, for what then works in him is not his own strength, but the strength of God.
- Leo Tolstoy
Now, the error which many parents commit in the treatment of the individual at this time(adolescense) is, insisting on the same unreasoning obedience as when all he had to do in the way of duty was, to obey the simple laws of "Come when you're called," and "Do as you're bid!" But a wise parent humours the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and adviser when his absolute rule shall cease.
- Elizabeth Gaskell
A wise parent humors the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and advisor when his absolute rule shall cease.
- Elizabeth Gaskell
A wise man's questions surpass the answers of the fool, but the silence of the enlightened is divine. Meditation is the key.
- J Gabriel Gates
My firm resolve was to escape my wicked cousin and my English captors. But the wind was howling, and rain was coming down in sheets. And even as I relaxed in a hot bath in my snug apartments, the clamor of the storm outside was counseling me to be patient and wait.
A wise woman never does anything in a hurry.
- Margaret George
The mobilisation which Bush has been able to perform since 11 September 2001 has to be fought - at least by Americans - in the name of a wise, honourable and democratic patriotism.
- Todd Gitlin
A wise traveler never depreciates their own country.
- Carlo Goldoni
A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
- Baltasar Gracian
A wise government knows how to enforce with temper, or to conciliate with dignity.
- George Grenville
If he cannot be infinite - his lov emeeting its eventual exhaustion, his light its shadows - this is the nature of landscapes. The forest meets mountain, the sea the shore. Brain meets bone, meets skin, meets hair; meets air. Day would not be, without night. Every limit, a wise woman once wrote, is a beginning as well as an ending.
- Lauren Groff
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
I don't think a wise thing at this moment is for Israel to launch a military attack on Iran.
- William Hague
Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author?
- Philip Gilbert Hamerton
Moderately wise each one should be,
Not overwise, for a wise man's heart
Is seldom glad (Norse Wisdom)
- Edith Hamilton
It's a wise person, I guess, who knows he's dumb, and an honest person who knows he's a liar. And it's a dumb person, I guess, whose convinced he's wise...-Bob Slocum
- Joseph Heller
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
It is a wise man that does know the contented man is never poor, whilst the discontented man is never rich.
- Frank Herbert
The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.
- Herodotus
Jimmy Lee Baylis was a wise man, and knew better than to talk back to the man who signed his paycheck.
- Carl Hiaasen
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.
- Hippocrates
Libraries are like houses of worship: Whether or not you use them yourself, it's important to know that they are there. In many ways they define a society and the values of that society. Librarians to me are the keepers of the flame of knowledge. When I was growing up, the librarian in my local library looked like a meek little old lady, but after you spent some time with her, you realized she was Athena with a sword, a wise and wonderful repository of wisdom.
- Jane Stanton Hitchcock
A wise man should so write (though in words understood by all men) that wise men only should be able to commend him.
- Thomas Hobbes
A wise man sees the path all must walk and embraces the free will of humankind, even if to watch it unfold causes him pain.
- Colleen Houck
His eyes drifted leisurely back up to my face and he smiled at me appreciatively, "Kelsey, when a man spends time with a beautiful woman, he needs to pace himself. I quirked my eyebrow at him and laughed. "Yeah, I'm a regular marathon alright." He kissed my fingers. "Exactly. A wise man never sprints...in a marathon.
- Colleen Houck
And while the sun and moon endure Luck's a chance but trouble's sure, I'd face it as a wise man would, And train for ill and not for good.
- A E Housman
Therefore, since the world has still
Much good, but much less good than ill,
And while the sun and moon endure
Luck's a chance, but trouble's sure,
I'd face it as a wise man would,
And train for ill and not for good.
- A E Housman
We pursued the wrong policies. George Bush is not on the ballot. Bill Clinton is not on the ballot. Mitt Romney is on the ballot, and Barack Obama is on the ballot. And Mitt Romney is proposing tax reform, regulatory reform, a wise budget strategy and trade. The president has proposed tax increases.
- Glenn Hubbard
Even a wise man knows doubt from time to time, it is the fool who allows it to rule his judgement.
- Jennifer Hudock
A fool will study for twenty or thirty years and learn how to do something, but a wise man will study for twenty or thirty minutes and become an expert. In this world, it isn't ability that counts, but authority.
- Barry Hughart
A wise man apportions his beliefs to the evidence.
- David Hume
A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.
- David Hume
It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to.
- Fannie Hurst
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
The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.
- Anna Jameson
How grateful we should be that a wise Creator fashioned an earth and placed us here, with a veil of forgetfulness of our previous existence so that we might experience a time of testing, an opportunity to prove ourselves in order to qualify for all that God has prepared for us to receive.
- Thomas S Monson
SAGE. A wise and Holy man who died a long time ago. No one modern qualifies.
- Diana Wynne Jones
To speak and to speak well, are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
- Ben Jonson
A wise ruler takes advice, but should never be seen to take it. Let them think you know more than you do. It will not harm them, and it will help you.
- Robert Jordan
If anger were money, only a fool would greedily save it up. And a wise man would let it slip out of his heart like change slips out of his pants pockets.
- Jarod Kintz
If our limbic system betrays our true intentions, and it's beyond our conscious control, then only a fool would consider lying a wise course of action. Politicians are full of such wisdom.
- Jarod Kintz
Even a fool recognizes that there is great sadness in a bucket of tears. But only a wise man thinks to conserve water and use that bucket to wash his car.
- Jarod Kintz
Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
- W B Yeats
A wise man once said, 'Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
- Miranda Kenneally
Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.
- Alexander Pope
An intelligent person can rationalize anything, a wise person doesn't try.
- Jen Knox
A wise man fights to win, but he is twice a fool who has no plan for possible defeat.
- Louis Lamour
It isor seems to bea wise sort of thing, to realise that all that happens to a man in this life is only by way of joke, especially his misfortunes, if he have them. And it is also worth bearing in mind, that the joke is passed round pretty liberally & impartially, so that not very many are entitled to fancy that they in particular are getting the worst of it.
- Herman Melville
A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.
- Bruce Lee
The Calormens have dark faces and long beards. They wear flowing robes and orange-colored turbans, and they are a wise, wealthy, courteous, cruel and ancient people. They bowed most politely to Caspian and paid him long compliments all about the fountains of prosperity irrigating the gardens of prudence and virtue --and things like that-- but of course what they wanted was the money they had paid.
- C S Lewis
A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
A wise man travels to discover himself.
- James Russell Lowell
A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn.
- John Lubbock
The only hope I can see for the future depends on a wiser and braver use of the reason, not a panic flight from it.
- F L Lucas
A wise man once said that we can't make anyone feel or do anything. We can throw things into the wind, but it's up to each person to decide how they want to react, where they want to stand when things fall.
- Jonathan Maberry
A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests.
- Niccolo Machiavelli
Therefore a wise prince, marching the whole day, does not go far from his baggage waggons.
- Lao Tzu
A wise man can play the part of a clown, but a clown can't play the part of a wise man.
- Malcolm X
A wise teacher learns in the midst of teaching; a wise student teaches in the midst of learning.
- Mollie Marti
A wise man once remarked that we can count how many seeds are in the apple, but not how many apples are in the seed.
- Wendy Mass
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
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 a fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient; and looking upon them only as sick and extravagant.
- Seneca
True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The gratest blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.
- Seneca
Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool
- Seneca
I forget who it was that recommended men for their soul's good to do each day two things they disliked: it was a wise man, and it is a precept that I have followed scrupulously; for every day I have got up and I have gone to bed.
- W Somerset Maugham
A wise nation should cultivate a political spirit that allows opponents to cooperate without fearing an automatic execution from their core supporters. Who knew that the real rogues in American politics would be the ones who dare to get along?
- Jon Meacham
It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods.
- H L Mencken
A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.
- Moliere
The Biblical world view sees Earth and its ecosystems as the effect of a wise God's creation and... therefore robust, resilient, and self-regulating, like the product of any good engineer.
- Christopher Monckton
A wise man from my home once told me that these mountains have seen far too much suffering and killing, and that each rock and every boulder you see represents a mujahadeen who died fighting either the Russians or the Taliban. Then the man went on to say that now that the fighting is finished, it is time to build a new era of peace-and the first step in that process is to take up the stones and start turning them into schools.
- Greg Mortenson
A wise reader reads the book of genius not with his heart, not so much with his brain, but with his spine. It is there that occurs the telltale tingle..
- Vladimir Nabokov
anyone can create the future but only a wise man can create the past
- Vladimir Nabokov
A wise person is like a smoothly polished rock: it takes time to become either.
- Vera Nazarian
I see a wiser person than when I was younger: having babies, and passing 30, were the turning points. What women in their 40s - I am 39 - lack in gorgeousness, they make up for in wisdom. I love ageing, despite the drawbacks - thinner, drier skin.
- Thandie Newton
A person can be educated and still be stupid, and a wise man can have no education at all.
- Jennifer A Nielsen
Above all, I would not expect a wise race, at great expense, to set loose an army of self-replicating robots.
- Barney Oliver
Sotomayor's vainglorious lecture bromide about herself as "a wise Latina" trumping white men is a vulgar embarrassment - a vestige of the bad old days of male-bashing feminism.
- Camille Paglia
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.
- Saskya Pandita
One conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study in a public school.
- D Byron Patterson
Knowledge is the treasure of a wise man.
- William Penn
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