Quotes of: Wise-man Keyword

For to be wise and love exceeds man's might.

Troilus and Cressida

A fool's paradise is a wise man's hell!

Thomas Fuller

Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.

Benjamin Franklin

A man only becomes wise when he begins to calculate the approximate depth of his ignorance.

Gian Carlo Menotti

The one knowing what is profitable, and not the man knowing many things, is wise.

Aeschylus

Zeal is fit only for wise men but is found mostly in fools.

Ancient

He who travels a lot becomes wise; he who is wise stays home.

Chinese

What a fool can spoil, ten wise men cannot repair.

Yiddish

God hath thus ordered it, that we may learn to bear one another’s burdens; for no man is without fault, no man without his burden, no man sufficient of himself, no man wise enough of himself; but we ought to bear with one another, comfort one anoth...

The Imitation of Christ

She wasn't dressed like a student. She wore an elaborate burgundy dress with long skirts, a tight waist, and matching burgundy gloves that rose all the way to her elbows. Moving deliberately, she managed to get down off the stool without tangling her...

The Wise Man's Fear

I thought of all the others who had tried to tie her to the ground and failed. So I resisted showing her the songs and poems I had written, knowing that too much truth can ruin a thing. And if that meant she wasn't entirely mine, what of it? I would ...

The Wise Man's Fear

What wise men suppose is worth more than the certainties of fools.

Arabian

Gentlemen, let us suppose that man is not stupid. (Indeed one cannot refuse to suppose that, if only from the one consideration, that, if man is stupid, then who is wise?) But if he is not stupid, he is monstrously ungrateful! Phenomenally ungrateful...

Notes from Underground

No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.

H. L. Mencken

A wise man's goal shouldn't be to say something profound, but to say something useful.

Criss Jami

A man is wise not because of his intelligence, but because of his understanding and kindness.

Debasish Mridha

The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

Theodor Reik

Before she continued her search she sat in his revolving desk chair, and wept for the passing of time, and the necessary death of the well-loved, wise old man.

Tempest-Tost

Free love, man, Free Love! Which, by the way, was the single greatest concept a young man has ever heard. About three years late, women got wise an my frustration returned to normal levels.

Steve Martin

My dad is such a good man. You know how when you are a child you think your dad is invincible? Well, I still think that - he is so wise and everything I do I ask my dad's advice about first.

Leona Lewis

No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

Hunter S. Thompson