Wise Men Quotes

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Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.
Plato

Men, Wise, Speak

Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.
Benjamin Franklin

Men, Wise, Advice

Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.
William Shakespeare

Men, Wise, Adversity

Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Men, Wise, Ignorant

Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent.
Napoleon Hill

Men, Wise, Doubt

The Supreme Court has ruled that they cannot have a nativity scene in Washington, D.C. This wasn't for any religious reasons. They couldn't find three wise men and a virgin.
Jay Leno

Men, Wise, Find

Christmas in Bethlehem. The ancient dream: a cold, clear night made brilliant by a glorious star, the smell of incense, shepherds and wise men falling to their knees in adoration of the sweet baby, the incarnation of perfect love.
Lucinda Franks

Love, Men, Christmas

Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Life, Men, Wise

Beauty makes idiots sad and wise men merry.
George Jean Nathan

Beauty, Men, Sad

Wise men make more opportunities than they find.
Francis Bacon

Men, Wise, Find

Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men.
Douglas Bader

Men, Wise, Rules

For to err in opinion, though it be not the part of wise men, is at least human.
Plutarch

Men, Wise, Human

In Greece wise men speak and fools decide.
George Santayana

Men, Wise, Speak

Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men.
Thomas Huxley

Men, Wise, Logical

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

Controversy equalizes fools and wise men - and the fools know it.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Men, Wise, Fools

When complaints are freely heard, deeply considered and speedily reformed, then is the utmost bound of civil liberty attained that wise men look for.
John Milton

Men, Wise, Liberty

Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die? Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom.
Alan Paton

Men, Wisdom, Wise

Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.
Alphonse de Lamartine

Men, Experience, Wise

There was no division I could see between the essential teaching of all Prophets and wise men of religion.
Cat Stevens

Religion, Men, Wise

Why should I ask the wise men: Whence is my beginning? I am busy with the thought: Where will be my end?
Muhammad Iqbal

Great deeds give choice of many tales. Choose a slight tale, enrich it large, and then let wise men listen.
Pindar

Great, Men, Wise

A fool can throw a stone in a pond that 100 wise men can not get out.
Saul Bellow

Men, Wise, Fool

Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men?
Natalie Clifford Barney

Men, Wise, Ignore

At Athens, wise men propose, and fools dispose.
Alcuin

Men, Wise, Fools

Kings may be judges of the earth, but wise men are the judges of kings.
Solomon Ibn Gabirol

For humble individuals like myself, there is one poor comfort, which is this, viz. that gout, unlike any other disease, kills more rich men than poor, more wise men than simple.
Thomas Sydenham

Men, Wise, Simple

Zeal is fit for wise men, but flourishes chiefly among fools.
John Tillotson

Men, Wise, Fools

To speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do is style.
Roger Ascham

Men, Wise, Speak

May none but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof.
David McCullough

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