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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
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
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 is closer to God than a fool will ever be to himself.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
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 wise man once asked to his mentor, "What advice would you give the average investor?" his reply was, "DON'T BE AVERAGE.
— Celeste Young
The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.
— William Shakespeare
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
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
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
A man must learn from his own mistakes, to be what he wishes to be.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
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
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
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
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
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
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 wise man should so write (though in words understood by all men) that wise men only should be able to commend him.
— Thomas Hobbes
It is little the sign of a wise or good man, to suffer temperance to be transgressed in order to purchase the repute of a generous entertainer.
— Francis Atterbury
A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.
— William Shakespeare
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
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
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
A man who is not in his proper place of reverence for and submission to God cannot be wise.
— Jim Berg
There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wise man doesn't need to be praised like one.It can reduce the guts of him to be a better man. — Toba Beta
