Wise Mans Quotes

O Mistress mine, where are you roaming?
O, stay and hear; your true love's coming,
That can sing both high and low:
Trip no further, pretty sweeting;
Journeys end in lovers meeting,
Every wise man's son doth know.
What is love? 'Tis not hereafter;
Present mirth hath present laughter;
What's to come is still unsure:
In delay there lies not plenty;
Then, come kiss me, sweet and twenty,
Youth's a stuff will not endure.
- William Shakespeare

The fool's crime is the crime that is found out and the wise man's crime is the crime that is not found out.
- Wilkie Collins

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

Appearances to the mind are of four kinds. Things either are what they appear to be; or they neither are, nor appear to be; or they are, and do not appear to be; or they are not, and yet appear to be. Rightly to aim in all these cases is the wise man's task.
- Epictetus

A fool's paradise is a wise man's hell!
- Thomas Fuller

A wise man's question contains half the answer.
- Solomon Ibn Gabirol

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

Moderately wise each one should be,
Not overwise, for a wise man's heart
Is seldom glad (Norse Wisdom)
- Edith Hamilton

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

She smiled like knife on a velvet, she stretched like cat on the sun.
Wise Man's Fear
- Patrick Rothfuss