Wise Man Quotes
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The great mountain must collapse, the mighty beam must break and the wise man wither like a plant.
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The wise man does not grow old, but ripens.
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These are the signs of a wise man: to reprove nobody, to praise nobody, to blame nobody, nor even to speak of himself or his own merits.
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It's the wise man who stays home when he's drunk.
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May I consider the wise man rich, and may I have such wealth as only the self-restrained man can bear or endure.
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The wise man looks back into the past, and does not grieve over what is far off, nor rejoice over what is near; for he knows that time is without end.
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The kind of man who always thinks that he is right, that his opinions, his pronouncements, are the final word, when once exposed shows nothing there. But a wise man has much to learn without a loss of dignity.
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The wise man puts himself last and finds himself first.
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A fool marvels at rare things, but a wise man at common ones.
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The wise man is one who knows what he does not know.
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The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man.
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The tongue of a fool is the key of his counsel, which, in a wise man, wisdom hath in keeping.
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A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
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For the wise man, every day is a festival.
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A wise man watches his faults more closely than his virtues; fools reverse the order.
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Where two discourse, if the anger of one rises, he is the wise man who lets the contest fall.
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Heaven-born, the soul a heavenward course must hold; beyond the world she soars; the wise man, I affirm, can find no rest in that which perishes, nor will he lend his heart to ought that doth time depend.
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The Errors of a Wise Man make your Rule Rather than the Perfections of a Fool.
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Silence is an answer to a wise man.
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A wise man in his house should find a wife gentle and courteous, or no wife at all.
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The wise man does not lay up treasure. The more he expends on others, the more he gains for himself. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.
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The fool tells me his reason; the wise man persuades me with my own.
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The fascination of trifles obscures the good,” says the Wise Man. It is difficult in the midst of much doing and seeing to keep alive and present to the deepest reality, to the really real. And so the monk goes apart…
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A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.
