Fools love not the wise, drunkards love not the sober.
Adversity and loss make a man wise.
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.
Quick condemnation of all that is not ours, of views with which we disagree, of ideas that do not attract us, is the sign of a narrow mind, of an uncultivated intelligence. Bigotry is always ignorant, and the wise boy, who will become the wise man, t...
The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.
Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.
A wise man travels to discover himself.
A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart.
Teach a child what is wise, that is morality. Teach him what is wise and beautiful, that is religion!
A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.
To fear death, gentlemen, is no other than to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know. No one knows whether death may not be the greatest of all blessings for a man, yet men fear it as if they knew that it is the...
Folly consists not in committing Folly, but in being incapable of concealing it. All men make mistakes, but the wise conceal the blunders they have made, while fools make them public. Reputation depends more on what is hidden than on what is seen. If...
To hear these defenders of democracy talk, one would think that the people deliberate like a committee of wise men, whereas in truth judicial murders, foolhardy undertakings, wild choices, and above all foolish and disastrous wars are eminently the p...
Xerxes: It isn't wise to stand against me, Leonidas. Imagine what horrible fate awaits my enemies when I would gladly kill any of my own men for victory. King Leonidas: And I would die for any one of mine.
The wise traveler leaves his heart at home.
A fool by chance may say a wise thing.
He who trusts is happy; the doubter is wise.
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...
Pride is the luxury of the strong".
But a leader is not a muscle. A leader is a mind.
The fools among us are presented to be wise and the wise among us are presented to be fools.
