Wise Man Quotes
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Euripides was wont to say, silence was an answer to a wise man; but we seem to have greater occasion for it in our dealing with fools and unreasonable persons; for men of breeding and sense will be satisfied with reason and fair words.
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We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression; the heart of a wise man should resemble a mirror, which reflects every object without being sullied by any.
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That is the hardest thing of all. It is much harder to judge yourself than to judge others. If you succeed in judging yourself, it's because you're truly a wise man.
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He who seeks wisdom is a wise man; he who thinks he has found it is mad.
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Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.
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He was a wise man who originated the idea of God.
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If the majority doesn't laugh at you, beware that you must be saying something wrong. When the majority thinks you are a fool, only then is there some possibility of you being a wise man.
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Wisdom is not communicable. The wisdom which a wise man tries to communicate always sounds foolish.
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The wise man makes an island of himself that no flood can overwhelm.
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A fool who recognises his own ignorance is thereby in fact a wise man, but a fool who considers himself wise - that is what one really calls a fool.
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A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.
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If you wish to get rich, save what you get. A fool can earn money; but it takes a wise man to save and dispose of it to his own advantage.
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A wise man has said: 'Only a Christian can live wholly in the present, for to him the past is pardoned and the future is safe in God.' ...the Christian life must be a life without regrets, without remorse.
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When a wise man is advised of his errors, he will reflect on and improve his conduct. When his misconduct is pointed out, a foolish man will not only disregard the advice but rather repeat the same error.
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The fool who recognizes his foolishness, is a wise man. But the fool who believes himself a wise man, he really is a fool.
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The wise man will always reflect concerning the quality not the quantity of life.
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Now, blessings light on him that first invented sleep!Ê It covers a man all over, thoughts and all, like a cloak; it is meat for the hungry, drink for the thirsty, heat for the cold, and cold for the hot.Ê It is the current coin that purchases all the pleasures of the world cheap, and the balance that sets the king and the shepherd, the fool and the wise man, even.
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Pray thee, spare, thyself at times: for it becomes a wise man sometimes to relax the high pressure of his attention to work.
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Ale is meat, drink and cloth; it will make a cat speak and a wise man dumb.
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Money is the wise man's religion.
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I call wise man who, while he is innocent , endures insults and blows with a patience equal to its strength.
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John Green is a very handsome, intelligent, and wise man. He smells really weird though.
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But as the wise man said, life’s too short to drink bad wine. Regret is a terrible vintage.
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A truly wise man does not play leapfrog with a unicorn.
