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No wise man ever thought that a traitor should be trusted.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
The wise man is glad to be instructed, but a self-sufficient fool falls flat on his face.
— Anonymous
Wisdom cannot be passed on. Wisdom which a wise man tries to pass on to someone always sounds like foolishness.
— Hermann Hesse
A man is never too young to kill, never too wise, never too strong, but he can damn well be too rich.
— Pierce Brown
A wise man neither suffers himself to be governed,nor attempts to govern others. — Jean De La Bruyere
Until the day when a wise black man can become our ambassador in Paris, we will forever be a pre-Brazil.
— Nelson Rodrigues
A wise man can be a fool in love.
— Chetan Bhagat
A wise man may be duped as well as a fool; but the fool publishes the triumph of the deceiver.
— Charles Caleb Colton
It is better to be nothing than a follower of other painters. The wise man has said when one follows another one is always behind.
— Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
Let a man be ne'er so wise, he may be caught with sober lies.
— Jonathan Swift
Whether religion be true or false, it must be necessarily granted to be the only wise principle and safe hypothesis for a man to live and die by.
— John Tillotson
A wise man will find us to be rogues by our faces.
— Jonathan Swift
It is possible that a wise and good man may be prevailed on to game; but it is impossible that a professed gamester should be a wise and good man.
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
If you hold onto a man hoping someone else won't get them you have learned how to be desperate, not wise.
— Shannon L. Alder
A wise man once asked to his mentor, "What advice would you give the average investor?" his reply was, "DON'T BE AVERAGE.
— Celeste Young
A man cannot be wise enough to be a great artist without being wise enough to wish to be a philosopher.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
A person can be educated and still be stupid, and a wise man can have no education at all.
— Jennifer A. Nielsen
Life is full of surprises, a wise man said, and would not be worth having if it were not.
— Richard Ford
No man is born wise; but wisdom and virtue require a tutor; though we can easily learn to be vicious without a master.
— Seneca The Younger
Could there ever be a wise man without the wisdom or life or without the death of illusion?
— Sorin Cerin
A wise man will be master of his mind, a fool will be its slave.
— Publilius Syrus
The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.
— William Shakespeare
Do not speak harshly to a grown-up man. He is old enough to be your father.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The man who can keep a secret may be wise, but he is not half as wise as the man with no secrets to keep
— Edgar Watson Howe
If you don't know, ask. You will be a fool for the moment, but a wise man for the rest of your life.
— Seneca The Younger
A wise man once said that the opposite of being alive is being boring, so for God's sake, don't be boring !
— Cameron Jace
There's no greater sign of being a poor philosopher and wise man than wanting all of life to be wise and philosophical.
— Giacomo Leopardi
If the advice of a fool for once happens to be good, it requires a wise man to carry it out.
— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Learn everything you can - everything. And then use all that you have learned to grow up too be a wise and good man.
— Gary D. Schmidt
Love is a volcano, the crater of which no wise man will approach too nearly, lest ... he should be swallowed up.
— Charles Caleb Colton
No man is wise enough to be another man's master. Each man's as good as the next if not a damn sight better. — Edward Abbey
Moderately wise each one should be, Not overwise, for a wise man's heart Is seldom glad (Norse Wisdom)
— Edith Hamilton
If it be true that a man is rich who wants nothing, a wise man is a very rich man.
— Jean De La Bruyere
A man must learn from his own mistakes, to be what he wishes to be.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
If a wise man behaves prudently, how can he be overcome by his enemies? Even a single man, by right action, can overcome a host of foes.
— Saskya Pandita
A wise man can and should stand above his times, not so the poet, but he should be their apex.
— Franz Grillparzer
Offer a wise man to be the king of the world, he will refuse it because wisdom is already a kingdom and the king is the kingdom itself!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
A man can be old and a foolmany are
a man can be young and wise
few are — Charles Bukowski
Rather know nothing than half-know many things! Rather be a fool on one's own account than a wise man in the opinion of others!
— Friedrich Nietzsche
There's an old Cheyenne saying about how, when a man is as wise as a serpent, he can afford to be as harmless as a dove.
— Larissa Ione
A wise man could not be insulted, since truth could not insult and untruth was not worthy of notice.
— Robert A. Heinlein
A wise man should so write (though in words understood by all men) that wise men only should be able to commend him.
— Thomas Hobbes
A wise man will see to it that his acts always seem voluntary and not done by compulsion, however much he may be compelled by necessity.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
A wise man can never be caught by surprise.
— Sunday Adelaja
The more humble and obedient to God a man is, the more wise and at peace he will be in all that he does.
— Thomas A Kempis
Who can be wise, amazed, temp'rate, and furious,Loyal and neutral, in a moment? No man. — William Shakespeare
A wise woman knows the importance of speaking life into her man. If you love him; believe in him, encourage him and be his peace.
— Denzel Washington
A man who is not in his proper place of reverence for and submission to God cannot be wise.
— Jim Berg
A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.
— William Shakespeare
Love is not control, Logan. Love is partnership. Friendship. A wise man once said, 'If you want to be loved, be lovable.
— Jessica Clare
A wise man is closer to God than a fool will ever be to himself.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Wise man doesn't need to be praised like one.It can reduce the guts of him to be a better man. — Toba Beta
There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
If thou hast never been a fool, be sure thou wilt never be a wise man.
— William Makepeace Thackeray
No one ever on seeing Mr Crawley took him to be a happy man, or a weak man, or an ignorant man, or a wise man.
— Anthony Trollope
For monarchy to work, one man must be wise. For democracy to work, a majority of the people must be wise. Which is more likely?
— Charles Maurras
It is true that wealth won't make a man virtuous, but I notice there ain't anybody who wants to be poor just for the purpose of being good.
— Josh Billings
