Top 1200 Wise Men Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

If the choice is given to us of liberty or security, we must scorn the latter with the proper contempt of free man and the sound judgment of wise men who know that liberty and security are not incompatible in the lives of honest men.

There is nothing by which men display their character so much as in what they consider ridiculous... Fools and sensible men are equally innocuous. It is in the half fools and the half wise that the great danger lies.

I find that with period pieces, you're sort of able to really take advantage of what's around you because prop-wise, wardrobe-wise and location-wise, it's all so specific due to that time.

The assembled souls of all that men held wise.

Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay.

True words aren't eloquent; eloquent words aren't true. Wise men don't need to prove their point; men who need to prove their point aren't wise. The Master has no possessions. The more he does for others, the happier he is. The more he gives to others, the wealthier he is. The Tao nourishes by not forcing. By not dominating, the Master leads.

Adversity makes men wise but not rich.

If God does not exist, and if religion is an illusion that the majority of men cannot live without ... let men believe in the lies of religion since they cannot do without them, and let then a handful of sages, who know the truth and can live with it, keep it among themselves. Men are then divided into the wise and the foolish, the philosophers and the common men, and atheism becomes a guarded, esoteric doctrine - for if the illusions of religion were to be discredited, there is no telling with what madness men would be seized, with what uncontrollable anguish.

Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.

Wise men speak because they have something to say

Wise men still seek Him today.

We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.

He that is rich is wise, And all men learned poverty despise.

Wise men change, fools stay the same.

There are men who think themselves too wise to be religious.

There's strong men of wisdom in many different fields. They say 5% of the people are wise and righteous and 10% are wise but use their wiseness for wickedness or to deceive others. It's like a magician: he knows the answer to the trick, but you don't. He has to keep you blind to the truth in order for the illusion to work. When you've got that kind of wisdom and somebody else doesn't, you can always take advantage of them.

Fools make news, and wise men carry it.

Wise men have interpreted dreams, and the gods have laughed.

It is much easier to make good men wise, than to make bad men good.

Be wise; let prudence dictate all your counsels; preserve peace with all men, if possible; stand by the Constitution of your country; observe its principles; and above all, show yourselves men of God, worthy citizens.

Wise men don't judge: they seek to understand.

Fools talk, cowards are silent, wise men listen.

We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.

The wise man is wise in vain who cannot be wise to his own advantage. [Lat., Nequicquam sapere sapientem, qui ipse sibi prodesse non quiret.]

When trouble comes, wise men take to their work; weak men take to the woods.

Be wise, because the world needs more wisdom. And if you cannot be wise, pretend to be someone who is wise, and then just behave like they would.

We are the wise. Do not envy us— We who are too wise to draw near the fire Lest we get burned; We who are too wise to love Lest love should vanish and we be hurt. We are the wise. Do not envy us our wisdom— We who are too wise to live Lest we should die.

Rich men are to bear the infirmities of the poor. Wise men are to bear the mistakes of the ignorant. Strong men are to bear with the feeble. Cultured people are to bear with the rude and vulgar. If a rough and coarse man meets an ecstatically fine man, the man that is highest up is to be the servant of the man that is lowest down.

All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes.

Freedom is the essence of this faith. It has for its object simply to make men good and wise. Its institutions then should be as flexible as the wants of men. That form out of which the life and suitableness have departed should be as worthless in its eyes as the dead leaves that are falling around us.

The truly wise man is he who believes the Bible against the opinions of any man. If the Bible says one thing, and any body of men says another, the wise man will decide, "This book is the Word of him who cannot lie".

In all superstition wise men follow fools.

Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men.

From all wise men, O Lord, protect us.

Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

I hope the time is not far off when I shall be able to unite all the wise and educated men of all the countries and establish a uniform regime based on the principles of the Quran which alone are true and which alone can lead men to happiness.

No age is wanting in able men; it is the duty of wise masters to find them out, win them over, and get work done by means of them, without listening to the calumnies of selfish men against them.

Wise men hear and see as little children do.

Abundance of knowledge does not teach men to be wise.

At Athens, wise men propose, and fools dispose.

In Greece wise men speak and fools decide.

That wise Men have in all Ages thought Government necessary for the Good of Mankind; and, that wise Governments have always thought Religion necessary for the well ordering and well-being of Society, and accordingly have been ever careful to encourage and protect the Ministers of it, paying them the highest publick Honours, that their Doctrines might thereby meet with the greater Respect among the common People.

I pray as follows: May justice reign, may the laws not be broken, may the wise men be poor, and the poor men rich, without sin.

Far best is he who is himself all-wise, and he, too, good who listens to wise words; But whoso is not wise or lays to hear another's wisdom is a useless man.

I'm very positive - music-wise, production-wise and life-wise.

Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen

Wise men and gods are on the strongest side.

Show is not substance; realities govern wise men.

Think as wise men do, but speak as the common people do.

Women have more energy, for a greater number of years, than men. Men, as they age, become either more wise or more stupid.

Wise men say nothing in dangerous times

Wise men have but few confidants, and cunning ones none.

Fools multiply when wise men are silent.

The wisest men are wise to the full in death.

Wise men put their trust in ideas and not in circumstances.

The fewer blows, the better. Brave men fight if they must; wise men never fight if they can help it.

Our toil must be in silence, and our efforts all in secret; for this enlightened age, when men believe not even what they see, the doubting of wise men would be his greatest strength.

Words are the counters of wise men, but the money of fools.

The wise men were all fools, what to do?

Fools rush in where wise men fear to trade.