Quotes of: Wise-men Keyword

Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.

Francis Bacon

There are men who think themselves too wise to be religious.

Samuel Richardson

Men become wise just as they become rich, more by what they save than by what they receive.

Wilbur Wright

When the wise man gets angry, he stops being wise.

Hebrew

God saw fit, for wise reasons to allow the people of Israel thus to make and possess slaves; but is this any license to us to enslave any of our fellow-men, to kill any of our fellow-men whom we please and are able to destroy, and take possession of ...

Samuel Hopkins

The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.

Plato

History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.

Abba Eban

Not only were the Jews expecting the birth of a Great King, a Wise Man and a Saviour, but Plato and Socrates also spoke of the Logos and of the Universal Wise Man 'yet to come'. Confucius spoke of 'the Saint'; the Sibyls, of a 'Universal King'; the G...

Life of Christ

No woman can make a wise man out of a fool, but every woman can change a wise man into a fool.

Argentine

My father told me that it is only a mad man that keeps bushy hairs. I asked him, "what about the great men with bushy hairs?". He replied, "education had made them mad, so study to be wise and sane.

Michael Bassey Johnson

Silence is music to a wise man.

Turkish

Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.

H. L. Mencken

As a vessel is known by the sound, whether it be cracked or not; so men are proved, by their speeches, whether they be wise or foolish.

Demosthenes

The wise man is father of the fool.

African

So said Hair-Face, and they killed him, because, they said, he was a wild man and wanted to go back and live in a tree. It was very strange. Whenever a man arose and wanted to go forward all those that stood still said he went backward and should be ...

To Build a Fire and Other Stories

In 1881, being on a visit to Boston, my wife and I found ourselves in the Parker House with the 's, and went over to Charleston to hear him lecture. His subject was 'Some Mistakes of Moses,' and it was a memorable experience. Our lost leaders, -- , ,...

My Pilgrimage to the Wise Men of the East

A wise man will not rebuke a fool.

Chinese

Fools are more useful to the wise than wise are to fools.

French

For a wise man a fool is a good advisor.

French

To question a wise man is the beginning of wisdom.

German

O prejudice, prejudice, prejudice, how many hast thou destroyed! Men who might have been wise have remained fools because they thought they were wise. Many judge what the gospel ought to be, but do not actually enquire as to what it is. They do not c...

Charles H. Spurgeon