Wise Man Quotes
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When a wise man points at the moon the imbecile examines the finger.
Confucius -
A wise man has dignity without pride; a fool has pride without dignity.
Confucius
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The wise man delights in water, the Good man delights in mountains. For the wise move; but the Good stay still. The wise are happy; but the good secure.
Confucius -
The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.
Lao Tzu -
A fool learns nothing from a wise man; but a wise man learns from a fool.
Gautama Buddha -
The Wise Man is square but not sharp, honest but not not malign, straight but not severe, bright but not dazzling.
Lao Tzu -
To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man.
Aristotle -
The wise man seeks death all his life, and for this reason death is not terrifying to him.
Socrates
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The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life - knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.
Aristotle -
The wise man knows of all things, as far as possible, although he has no knowledge of each of them in detail.
Aristotle -
It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to.
Fannie Hurst -
Each of our passions, even love, has a stomach that must not be overloaded. We must in everything write the word 'finis' in time; we must restrain ourselves, when it becomes urgent; we must draw the bolt on the appetite, play a fantasia on the violin, then break the strings with our own hand. The Wise man is he who knows when and how to stop.
Victor Hugo -
A wise man, recognizing that the world is but an illusion, does not act as if it is real, so he escapes the suffering.
Gautama Buddha -
As the water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it, so a wise man adapts himself to circumstances.
Confucius
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The wise man admires water, the kind man admires mountains. The wise man moves, the kind man rests. The wise man is happy, the kind man is firm.
Confucius -
Make the wise man within you your living ideal.
Karl G. Maeser -
Without goodness a man cannot endure adversity for long, nor can he enjoy prosperity for long. The good man is naturally at ease with goodness. The wise man cultivates goodness for its advantage.
Confucius -
It takes a wise man to recognize a wise man.
Xenophanes -
It is the fool who is haunted by fears, dread of dangers, oppression of mind, not the wise man.
Gautama Buddha -
A wise man should so write (though in words understood by all men) that wise men only should be able to commend him.
Thomas Hobbes
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The wise man knows he doesn't know.
Lao Tzu -
A wise man does not trust all his eggs to one basket.
Miguel de Cervantes -
Who was the fool, who the wise man, beggar or king? Whether poor or rich, all's the same in death.
Jacoby Shaddix Papa Roach -
The great mountain must collapse, the mighty beam must break and the wise man wither like a plant.
Confucius