Quotes of: Wise-man Keyword

It is not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.

William Hazlitt

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

Wise men talk about ideas, intellectuals about facts, and the ordinary man talks about what he eats.

Mongolian

A wise man turns chance into good fortune.

Thomas Fuller

Hakeem: A wise man once said that suffering produces perseverance, character; and character, hope. Andre: Since when did spouting masochism make one wise? And the sacraments of a bitter existence? Who deemed that a vaunted prize? Nihilistic philosoph...

Snitch

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

Frank Herbert

Adversity makes a man wise, not rich.

Romanian

A fool is a wise man's ladder.

South African

Adversity and loss make a man wise.

Welsh

I would pull at my beard like a wise man, but I don’t have one—a beard (or a wise man). So instead I pull at my grandpa’s beard, as he purrs like a kitten.

Sleepwalking is restercise

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

Herbert Spencer

A wise man travels to discover himself.

James Russell Lowell

A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.

As You Like It

O, great wise man,' she said, 'I have been wondering so many things. Is life more than sitting at home doing the same thing over and over? Wise man, is life more than watching one's relatives do unpleasant things, or more than grim tasks one must per...

Horseradish

A smart man makes a mistake, learns from it, and never makes that mistake again. But a wise man finds a smart man and learns from him how to avoid the mistake altogether.

Roy H. Williams

Pride is the luxury of the strong".

The Wise Man's Fear

But a leader is not a muscle. A leader is a mind.

The Wise Man's Fear

The wise man reads both books and life itself.

Lin Yutang

Money is not the master but the slave of a wise man.

Debasish Mridha

A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.

Jonathan Swift