Quotes of: Wise-man Keyword

Pride is always a better lever against the nobility than reason.

The Wise Man's Fear

Pride and folly, they go together like two tightly grasping hands.

The Wise Man's Fear

...nothing in the world is harder than convincing someone of an unfamiliar truth.

The Wise Man's Fear

Why would I want to win anything other than a beautiful game?

The Wise Man's Fear

Could there ever be a wise man without the wisdom or life or without the death of illusion?

Wisdom Collection: The Book of Wisdom

A wise man does not eat his seed even in the time of hunger, he knows the value of his seed!

Stan The Man SA

It is a wise man who said there is no inequality than the equal treatment of unequals. Fillossofee: Messages From a Grandfather, an ebook

Thomas Jefferson (?)

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

Louis L'Amour

The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.

Lao Tzu

A wise man is able to differentiate between humility and weakness, he does not mistake courage for pride.

Newton Gatambia

Talk is free but the wise man chooses when to spend his words.

Odd and the Frost Giants

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

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

A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

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

Ben Jonson

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

John Green is a very handsome, intelligent, and wise man. He smells really weird though.

Hank Green

Count Dracula: For one who has not lived even a single lifetime, you're a wise man, Van Helsing.

Dracula

Wise Man #1: We were led by a star. Brian's mother: Led by a bottle, more like.

Life of Brian