Better a slap from a wise man than a kiss from a fool.
If people often judge you by the company that you keep...then choose your company wisely my friend, choose wisely!
Some prisons don't require bars to keep people locked inside. All it takes is their perception that they belong there.
He that will write well in any tongue, must follow this counsel of Aristotle, to speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do: and so should every man understand him, and the judgment of wise men allow him.
A wise man once said that a person is known by the company he keeps, but could then also add that the character of the company is known by the people it keeps for the longest days, especially at the strategic decision making level.
There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.
A wise man should so write (though in words understood by all men) that wise men only should be able to commend him.
Every soul seeks happiness, Socrates believes, and there is a clearly defined path to achieving happiness, though many don’t choose to take it. The only people who are truly happy are those who are virtuous and wise, who live reflective, “examine...
When a hundred men call a wise man a fool, then he becomes a fool.
What a fool does in the end, the wise man does in the beginning.
A single conversation across the table with a wise man is worth a month's study of books.
A wise man adapts himself to circumstances, as water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it.
It is a wise man who lives with money in the bank, it is a fool who dies that way.
The praise of a thousand jesters counts for nothing against the reprimand of one wise man.
A fool says what he knows, and a wise man knows what he says.
It takes a wise man to discover a wise man.
No matter how much the wise man travels, he always lives in the same place.
The wise man who does not put his knowledge into practice is like a bee that gives no honey.
One idiot can ask more questions than ten wise men can answer.
The fool sings a love song to his wife, the wise man will talk about his dog.
The wise man says what he knows; the fool doesn't know what he is saying.
