It is best for the wise man not to seem wise.
Aeschylus
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
The secret of the wise man is to learn from the errors of others.
Alisson
The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself a fool.
Anatole France
Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital. The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket.
Andrew Carnegie
The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.
Anna Jameson
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
A man must fortify himself and understand that a wise man who yields to laziness or anger or passion or love of drink, or who commits any other action prompted by impulse and inopportune, will probably find his fault condoned; but if he stoops to greed, he will not be pardoned, but render himself odious as a combination of all vices at once.
Apollonius of Tyana
The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life - knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.
Aristotle
A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
Baltasar Gracian
In New Mexico, my local church did a nativity play, and I was cast as Wise Man #3. Of course, Wise Man #3 had no damn lines. Wise Man #1 had all the lines! I stood there thinking, 'I could do that role so much better!' From that moment on, I knew I wanted to be an actor.
Baron Vaughn
To speak and to speak well, are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
Ben Jonson
The fool wonders, the wise man asks.
Benjamin Disraeli
A wise man once said, 'Instead of crying, I keep on trying.' And that wise man is me, because I just made that up. I think.
Bobby Bones
A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.
Bruce Lee
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
O wise man! Give your wealth only to the worthy and never to others. The water of the sea received by the clouds is always sweet.
Chanakya
The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.
The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world.
Charles Caleb Colton
I'm not trying to sound like I turned into some kind of wise man, but it's nice to realize that your little pocket of the world isn't the whole world.
Chris Kattan
I myself think that the wise man meddles little or not at all in affairs and does his own things.
The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions.
Bombino's a super modest guy, very nice. His whole crew is a bunch of characters and he's definitely the Grand Poobah. I don't think the other guys are that much younger than him, but he definitely feels like the wise man; you just sort of get that sense when you're around him. He doesn't say that much but he's humble and well-respected.
Putting is not an art, it's a dreaded evil. No wise man ever said that.
A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.
There is only a finger's difference between a wise man and a fool.
It takes a wise man to discover a wise man.
Wise kings generally have wise counselors; and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one.
The skilful employer of men will employ the wise man, the brave man, the covetous man, and the stupid man.
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.
Of the 25 songs we've recorded there were 24 that we wanted to have on an album. That wouldn't have worked. So when one of our wise managers suggested the idea of considering two different album, it cleared the way for us.
A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.
He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forbearing.
Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life.
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.
He was a wise man who originated the idea of God.
It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to.
It is a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals.
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win.
It is a wise man that does know the contented man is never poor, whilst the discontented man is never rich.
The greatest misfortune of the wise man and the greatest unhappiness of the fool are based upon convention.
The wise man knows how to run his life so that contemplation is Possible.
The man who has sufficient power over himself to wait until his nature has recovered its even balance is the truly wise man, but such beings are seldom met with.
Since, therefore, no man is born without faults, and he is esteemed the best whose errors are the least, let the wise man consider everything human as connected with himself; for in worldly affairs there is no perfect happiness under heaven.
A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion.
A wise man, when he writes a book, sets forth his arguments fully and clearly; an enlightened ruler, when he makes his laws, sees to it that every contingency is provided for in detail.
Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.
