Quotes of: Wise-man Keyword

A wise lawyer never goes to law himself.

Scottish

The wise understand; fools follow the reports of others.

Tibetan

We start as fools and become wise through experience.

Tanzanian

CHAPTER VI Concerning New Principalities Which Are Acquired By One's Own Arms And Ability LET no one be surprised if, in speaking of entirely new principalities as I shall do, I adduce the highest examples both of prince and of state; because men, wa...

The Prince

Think of music as being a great snarl of a city [...]. In the years I spent living there, I came to know its streets. Not just the main streets. Not just the alleys. I knew shortcuts and rooftops and parts of the sewers. Because of this, I could move...

The Wise Man's Fear

Fools look to tomorrow; Wise men use tonight

Scottish Proverb

The wise respond.The foolish react.The wise think and then act.The foolish act and then regret.-RVM

Rvm

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

Plato

The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored.

Jean de la Bruyere

It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.

Victor Hugo

There are questions I'm still not wise enough to answer, just wise enough to no longer ask.

George Jones

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

Benjamin Franklin

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

Cat Stevens

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

David McCullough

Wise men make more opportunities than they find.

Francis Bacon

Controversy equalizes fools and wise men in the same way - and the fools know it.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

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

Plutarch

They're mutually incompatible I feel; being a wise thief and a wise father.

Andre Braugher

Don’t be smart, be wise. A lot of people can be smart, not many people can be wise.

Life

Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.

George Santayana

Alas, how terrible is wisdom when it brings no profit to the man that's wise! This I knew well, but had forgotten it, else I would not have come here.

Oedipus Rex