Quotes of: Wise-man Keyword

A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Who then is free? The wise man who can command himself.

Horace

The man who can keep a secret may be wise, but he is not half as wise as the man with no secrets to keep.

E. W. Howe

The wise man regulates his conduct by the theories both of religion and science. But he regards these theories not as statements of ultimate fact but as art-forms.

John B. S. Haldane

A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men.

Plato

A wise man looks upon men as he does on horses; all their comparisons of title, wealth, and place, he consider but as harness.

Robert Cecil

The wise man sees the fool & laughs & the fool never knows why

Love

I will love to be called a foolish man of peace, than to be named a wise man of war. Show me your weapons of war and I will show you my Bible of peace!

Israelmore Ayivor

A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

The Essays

A wise man does not step betwixt the beast and his meat

Cloud Atlas

Asleep she was a painting of a fire. Awake she was the fire itself

The Wise Man's Fear

Looters become looted, while time and tide make us mercenaries all.

The Wise Man's Fear

The point isn't to win the game. The point is to play a beautiful game. (paraphrased)

The Wise Man's Fear

Lies are simpler, and most of the time they make better sense.

The Wise Man's Fear

Music explains itself...It is the road and it is the map that shows the road. It is both together.

The Wise Man's Fear

Sharing silence between us. Sometimes is all you can share.

The Wise Man's Fear

The wise man in the storm prays God not for safety from danger but for deliverance from fear.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A wise man does not chatter with one whose mind is sick.

Sophocles

Nothing can confound a wise man more than laughter from a dunce.

Lord Byron

A wealthy and wise man doesn't shake hands with people, he gives an helping hand.

Michael Bassey Johnson