Wise Man Quotes

The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forbearing.
Epictetus

Wise, Two, Opinion

A wise man fights to win, but he is twice a fool who has no plan for possible defeat.
Louis L'Amour

Wise, Fool, Win

The fool wonders, the wise man asks.
Benjamin Disraeli

Wise, Fool, Wonders

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

Wise, Him, Cannot

A wise man does not chatter with one whose mind is sick.
Sophocles

Wise, Mind, Sick

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

Health, Wise, Greatest

So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Trust, Truth, Wise

A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Wise, Battle, Win

Travel makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.
Thomas Fuller

Travel, Wise, Fool

A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion.
Grantland Rice

Wise, Opinion, Decisions

Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital. The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket.
Andrew Carnegie

Wise, Thoughts, Eggs

A wise man turns chance into good fortune.
Thomas Fuller

Good, Wise, Chance

A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
Michel de Montaigne

Wise, Ought, Sees

It is not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.
William Hazlitt

Travel, Wise, Fool

A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
Baltasar Gracian

Wise, Fool, Friends

Who then is free? The wise man who can command himself.
Horace

Wise, Free, Himself

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

Men, Wise, Words

A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
Michel de Montaigne

Wise, Himself, Loses

He was a wise man who originated the idea of God.
Euripides

God, Wise, Idea

The fool wanders, a wise man travels.
Thomas Fuller

Wise, Fool, Travels

Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life.
Epicurus

Life, Wise, Greatest

The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself a fool.
Anatole France

Wise, Fool, Himself

No wise man ever wished to be younger.
Jonathan Swift

Wise, Younger, Wished

The only question which any wise man can ask himself, and which any honest man will ask himself, is whether a doctrine is true or false.
Thomas Huxley

Wise, True, Honest

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

Wise, Cannot, Idiot

It is best for the wise man not to seem wise.
Aeschylus

Best, Wise, Seem

Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.
Jean de La Fontaine

Death, Wise, Takes

It takes a wise man to discover a wise man.
Diogenes

Wise, Takes, Discover

Pray thee, spare, thyself at times: for it becomes a wise man sometimes to relax the high pressure of his attention to work.
Thomas Aquinas

Work, Wise, Sometimes

A wise man will live as much within his wit as within his income.
Lord Chesterfield

Wise, Live, Within

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