Wise Man Quotes

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.
Charles Caleb Colton

Wise, Fool, Mistakes

A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.
David Hume

Wise, Belief, Evidence

Knowledge is the treasure of a wise man.
William Penn

Knowledge, Wise, Treasure

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.
Akhenaton

Wisdom, Wise, Fool

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.
Swami Sivananda

Life, Wise, Rest

Wise kings generally have wise counselors; and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one.
Diogenes

Wise, Himself, Capable

The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.
Herodotus

Wise, Human, Influence

Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.
Will Durant

Money, History, Wise

The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.
Herbert Spencer

Future, Wise, Past

Who is the wise man? He who sees what's going to be born.
King Solomon

Wise, Born, Sees

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.
Giacomo Casanova

Nature, Power, Wise

The conqueror is regarded with awe; the wise man commands our respect; but it is only the benevolent man that wins our affection.
William Dean Howells

Respect, Wise, Affection

It is a wise man that does know the contented man is never poor, whilst the discontented man is never rich.
Frank Herbert

Wise, Rich, Poor

The wise man reads both books and life itself.
Lin Yutang

Life, Wise, Both

The greatest misfortune of the wise man and the greatest unhappiness of the fool are based upon convention.
Franz Schubert

Wise, Fool, Greatest

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.
John B. S. Haldane

Religion, Science, Wise

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

Wise, Fool, May

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.
Sidney Sheldon

Leadership, Peace, Happiness

It takes a wise man to handle a lie, a fool had better remain honest.
Norman Douglas

Wise, Fool, Lie

There is only a finger's difference between a wise man and a fool.
Diogenes of Sinope

Wise, Fool, Between

The wise man... if he would live at peace with others, he will bear and forbear.
Samuel Smiles

Peace, Wise, Live

The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions.
Claude Levi-Strauss

Wise, Give, Questions

Nothing can confound a wise man more than laughter from a dunce.
George Byron

Wise, Laughter, Nothing

A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.
John Churton Collins

Wise, Difficult, Easy

It takes a wise man to recognize a wise man.
Xenophanes

Wise, Takes, Recognize

To speak and to speak well, are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
Ben Jonson

Wise, Fool, May

I'm not trying to sound like I turned into some kind of wise man, but it's nice to realize that your little pocket of the world isn't the whole world.
Chris Kattan

Nice, Wise, Trying

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

Wise, Single, Action

The wise man is he who knows the relative value of things.
Dean Inge

Wise, Value, Knows

The wise man knows how to run his life so that contemplation is Possible.
Gabriel Marcel

Life, Wise, Possible

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