Top 1200 Wise Men Quotes & Sayings

Clever men are impressed in their differences from their fellows. Wise men are conscious of their resemblance to them.

Noble and wise men once believed in the music of the spheres: noble and wise men still continue to believe in the "moral significance of existence." But one day even this sphere-music will no longer be audible to them! They will wake up and take note that their ears were dreaming.

Let men be wise by instinct if they can, but when this fails be wise by good advice.

Smart men walked on the moon, daring men walked on the ocean floor, but wise men walk with God.

Oppression makes wise men mad; but the distemper is still the madness of the wise, which is better than the sobriety of fools.

Good men and bad men differ radically. Bad men never appreciate kindness shown them, but wise men appreciate and are grateful. Wise men try to express their appreciation and gratitude by some return of kindness, not only to their benefactor, but to everyone else

This Advent we look to the Wise Men to teach us where to focus our attention. We set our sights on things above, where God is. We draw closer to Jesus... When our Advent journey ends, and we reach the place where Jesus resides in Bethlehem, may we, like the Wise Men, fall on our knees and adore him as our true and only King.

None of us was born knowing or wise; but men become wise by consideration, observation, experience.

By reason of gifts and bribes the offices be given to rich men, which should rather have been executed by wise men.

I wore the gold for some reasons. One, as a Christian.When Jesus was born wise men bring him gold.No wise man brought bling. Bling is not in The Bible.

If all men saw the fair and wise the same men would not have debaters' double strife.

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.

Animals feed themselves; men eat; but only wise men know the art of eating

Crafty men condemn studies; Simple men admire them; And wise men use them: For they teach not their own use: but that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation.

If this nation is to be wise as well as strong, if we are to achieve our destiny, then we need more new ideas for more wise men reading more good books in more public libraries.

Wise men have more to learn of fools than fools of wise men.

It is one of my favorite thoughts that God manifests Himself to men in all the wise, good, humble, generous, great, and magnanimous men.

Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others.

Fools and wise men are equally harmless. It is the half-fools and half-wise that are dangerous.

Why does Samuel Butler say, 'Wise men never say what they think of women'? Wise men never say anything else apparently.

Fools learn nothing from wise men, but wise men learn much from fools.

In science, the old men are usually wrong. But in politics, the old men are wise, counsel caution, and in the end are often right.

Fools rush in, where wise men never go, But wise men never fall in love, so how are they to know?

Wise men say, only fools rush in. Wise men are so slow.

A wise man should so write (though in words understood by all men) that wise men only should be able to commend him.

Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise.

This fellow is wise enough to play the fool; And to do that well craves a kind of wit: He must observe their mood on whom he jests, The quality of persons, and the time, And, like the haggard, check at every feather That comes before his eye. This is a practise As full of labour as a wise man's art For folly that he wisely shows is fit; But wise men, folly-fall'n, quite taint their wit.

Wise men are more dependent on fools than fools on wise men.

Wise men are not wise at all hours, and will speak five times from their taste or their humor, to once from their reason.

There are men steady and wise whose body, words and mind are self-controlled. They are the men of supreme self-control.

I would not say that old men grow wise, for men never grow wise; and many old men retain a very attractive childishness and cheerful innocence. Elderly people are often much more romantic than younger people, and sometimes even more adventurous, having begun to realize how many things they do not know.

When a youth was giving himself airs in the Theatre and saying, 'I am wise, for I have conversed with many wise men,' Epictetus replied, 'I too have conversed with many rich men, yet I am not rich!’.

Action men are the unvoluntary slaves of wise men.

I was born wise. Street-wise, people-wise, self-wise. This wisdom was my birthright.

It is better to be wise, and not to seem so, than to seem wise, and not be so; yet men, for the most part, desire the contrary.

Wise kings generally have wise counselors; and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one.

Speech was given to the ordinary sort or men, whereby to communicate their mind; but to wise men, whereby to conceal it.

Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.

There are more fools than wise men, and even in a wise man there is more folly than wisdom.

Speech was given to the ordinary sort of men, whereby to communicate their mind; but to wise men, whereby to conceal it.

Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.

Wise men appreciate all men, for they see the good in each and know how hard it is to make anything good.

There is a lot of territory out there still to explore TV-wise, show-wise, movie-wise, everything.

The magi, as you know, were wise men wonderfully wise men who brought gifts to the Babe in the manger. They invented the art of giving Christmas presents.

A wise quote can only change a wise man! Therefore, wise sayings are for the wise men, not for the fools! The sunflowers turn their face toward the Sun, the fools, toward the darkness!

We are placed in the genus of Homo, which is Latin for man - Homo sapiens: supposedly wise men. I sometimes think - wonder - whether we really are wise men.

O wise humanity, terribly wise humanity! How inscrutable is the civilization where men toil and work and worry their hair gray to get a living and forget to play!

Love works in miracles every day: such as weakening the strong, and stretching the weak; making fools of the wise, and wise men of fools; favouring the passions, destroying reason, and in a word, turning everything topsy-turvy.

Fools call wise men fools. A wise man never calls any man a fool.

The wise people are in New York because the foolish went there first, that's the way the wise men make a living.

Men may be born free; they cannot be born wise; and it is the duty of the university to make the free wise.

Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.

[F]or as Socrates says that a wise man is a citizen of the world, so I thought that a wise woman was equally at liberty to range through every station or degree of men, to fix her choice wherever she pleased.

Wise men are not wise at all times.

If you take a little time and watch forensics, and see what men, sick-minded men do ... I don't know whether it's wise for women to feed the sickness that's in the man.

Cato used to assert that wise men profited more by fools than fools by wise men; for that wise men avoided the faults of fools, but that fools would not imitate the good examples of wise men.

The man who walks with wise men becomes wise himself.

THERE are no wise few; for in all men rages the folly of the Fall. Take your strongest, happiest, handsomest, best born, best bred, best instructed men on earth and give them special power for half an hour and because they are men they will begin to [perform] badly.

He that walketh with wise men shall be wise.

Wisdom is like electricity. There is no permanently wise man, but men capable of wisdom, who, being put into certain company, or other favorable conditions, become wise for a short time, as glasses rubbed acquire electric power for a while.