Wise Man Quotes

A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool. William Shakespeare
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A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer. Bruce Lee
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From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own. Publilius Syrus
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A smart man makes a mistake, learns from it, and never makes that mistake again. But a wise man finds a smart man and learns from him how to avoid the mistake altogether. Roy H. Williams
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Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him. Dwight D. Eisenhower
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A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men. Plato
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The wise man does at once what the fool does finally. Niccolo Machiavelli
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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. Moliere
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He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has. Epictetus
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A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence. David Hume
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It's a wise man who understands that every day is a new beginning, because boy, how many mistakes do you make in a day? I don't know about you, but I make plenty. You can't turn the clock back, so you have to look ahead. Mel Gibson
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A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance. Akhenaton
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The foolish man conceives the idea of 'self.' The wise man sees there is no ground on which to build the idea of 'self;' thus, he has a right conception of the world and well concludes that all compounds amassed by sorrow will be dissolved again, but the truth will remain. Buddha
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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
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A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses. Hippocrates
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Quick condemnation of all that is not ours, of views with which we disagree, of ideas that do not attract us, is the sign of a narrow mind, of an uncultivated intelligence. Bigotry is always ignorant, and the wise boy, who will become the wise man, tries to understand and to see the truth in ideas with which he does not agree. Annie Besant
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Who is the wise man? He who sees what's going to be born. King Solomon
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To speak and to speak well, are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks. Ben Jonson
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A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool. Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
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A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart. Jonathan Swift
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The fool wonders, the wise man asks. Benjamin Disraeli
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It is a wise man who knows where courage ends and stupidity begins. Jerome Cady
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A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain. Samuel Johnson
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A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant. Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future. Herbert Spencer
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