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Wise Man Quotes (page 4)

Appearances to the mind are of four kinds. Things either are what they appear to be; or they neither are, nor appear to be; or they are, and do not appear to be; or they are not, and yet appear to be. Rightly to aim in all these cases is the wise man's task. Epictetus
To me this is the first principle of life, the foundational principle, and a lesson you can't learn at the foot of any wise man: Get up! The art of living is simply getting up after you've been knocked down. Joe Biden
Ralph Waldo Emerson quote: "There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be..."
There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant Ralph Waldo Emerson
Neil Gaiman quote: "Talk is free but the wise man chooses when to spend his words."
Talk is free but the wise man chooses when to spend his words. Neil Gaiman
Plato quote: "He was a wise man who invented God."
He was a wise man who invented God. Plato
Lao Tzu quote: "The Wise Man is square but not sharp, honest but not not..."
The Wise Man is square but not sharp, honest but not not malign, straight but not severe, bright but not dazzling. Lao Tzu
Facts are ventriloquist’s dummies. Sitting on a wise man’s knee they may be made to utter words of wisdom; elsewhere, they say nothing, or talk nonsense, or indulge in sheer diabolism. Aldous Huxley
A wise man once said: "Are we human because we gaze at the stars, or do we gaze at the stars because we are human?" Pointless, really. Now, do the stars gaze back? That is a question. Neil Gaiman
Otto von Bismarck quote: "Only a fool learns from his own mistakes. The wise man learns..."
Only a fool learns from his own mistakes. The wise man learns from the mistakes of others. Otto von Bismarck
Truman Capote quote: "Have you never heard what the wise man say : all of the future..."
Have you never heard what the wise man say : all of the future exists in the past. Truman Capote
O Mistress mine, where are you roaming? O, stay and hear; your true love's coming, That can sing both high and low: Trip no further, pretty sweeting; Journeys end in lovers meeting, Every wise man's son doth know. What is love? 'Tis not hereafter; Present mirth hath present laughter; What's to come is still unsure: In delay there lies not plenty; Then, come kiss me, sweet and twenty, Youth's a stuff will not endure. William Shakespeare
That is the hardest thing of all. It is much harder to judge yourself than to judge others. If you succeed in judging yourself, it's because you're truly a wise man. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
She began to see that character is a better possession than money, rank, intellect, or beauty, and to feel that if greatness is what a wise man has defined it to be, 'truth, reverence, and good will,' then her friend Friedrich Bhaer was not only good, but great. Louisa May Alcott
Even voting for the right is doing nothing for it. It is only expressing to men feebly your desire that it should prevail. A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority. There is but little virtue in the action of masses of men. Henry David Thoreau
David Hume quote: "A wise man apportions his beliefs to the evidence."
A wise man apportions his beliefs to the evidence. David Hume

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