Quotes of: Wise-men Keyword

A wise man can say a foolish thing at any time, anywhere, and to anybody.

Michael Bassey Johnson

Any fool can say he is wise but only someone wise can admit he is a fool.

Michael Reed

Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.

Will Durant

It is a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals.

Felix Frankfurter

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

5-6 blogs is too many for a fool to have; one is enough for a wise person

Tasha Turner

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

Love

It is never wise to try to appear to be more clever than you are. It is sometimes wise to appear slightly less so.

William Whitelaw

We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

Yes," Nicholas replied, in a bored voice. "The name is Dutch. Dragonwyck, meaning place of the dragon. It derives from an Indian legend about a flying serpent whose eyes were fire and whose flaming breath withered the corn." "Heavens!" With a light l...

Dragonwyck

Visionary feminism is a wise and loving politics. It is rooted in the love of male and female being, refusing to privilege one over the other. The soul of feminist politics is the commitment to ending patriarchal domination of women and men, girls an...

bell hooks

the only way in which a human being can make some approach to knowing the whole of a subject, is by hearing what can be said about it by persons of every variety of opinion, and studying all modes in which it can be looked at by every character of mi...

On Liberty

They will be hushed by a good deed who laugh at a wise speech.

French

Though the snake be small, it is still wise to hit it with a big stick.

Indian

The foolish sayings of a rich man pass for wise ones.

Spanish

What a fool does in the end, the wise do in the beginning.

Spanish

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