Wise Men Quotes (page 5)

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• wise
• men
• wisely

A fool can throw a stone in a pond that 100 wise men can not get out. Saul Bellow

• wise
• ignorance
• men

Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men? Natalie Clifford Barney

• busy
• business
• end

Why should I ask the wise men: Whence is my beginning? I am busy with the thought: Where will be my end? Muhammad Iqbal

• beautiful
• men
• wise

Beauty makes idiots sad and wise men merry. George Jean Nathan

• wise
• men
• rules

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

• men
• style
• wise

To speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do is style. Roger Ascham

• wise
• men
• proposal

At Athens, wise men propose, and fools dispose. Alcuin

• wise
• men
• rich

Men become wise just as they become rich, more by what they save than by what they receive. Orville Wright

• wise
• men
• experience

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience. George Bernard Shaw

• wise
• men
• exhaust

Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives. Abba Eban

• path
• teacher
• men

The good must be clearly good but not wholly clear. If it is wholly clear it is too easy to reject. What is wanted is an oversimplification, a reduction of a multitude of possibilities to only two. But if the recommended path were utterly devoid of mystery, it would cease to fascinate men….There would be nothing left to discuss and interpret, to lecture and write about, to admire and merely think about. The world exacts a price for calling teachers wise: it keeps discussing the paths they... Walter Kaufmann

• men
• country
• success

The wise and the good never form the majority of any large society and it seldom happens that their measures are uniformly adopted.... [All that wise and good men can do is] to persevere in doing their duty to their country and leave the consequences to him who made men only; neither elated by success, however great, nor discouraged by disappointments however frequent or mortifying. John Jay

• wild
• help
• men

So said Hair-Face, and they killed him, because, they said, he was a wild man and wanted to go back and live in a tree. It was very strange. Whenever a man arose and wanted to go forward all those that stood still said he went backward and should be killed. And the poor people helped stone him, and were fools. We were all fools, except those who were fat and did no work. The fools were called wise, and the wise were stoned. Men who worked did not get enough to eat, and the men who did... Jack London

• god
• great
• death

It was not enough that the Son of God should come down from the heavens and appear as the Son of Man, for then He would have been only a great teacher and a great example, but not a Redeemer. It was more important for Him to fulfill the purpose of the coming, to redeem man from sin while in the likeness of human flesh. Teachers change men by their lives; Our Blessed Lord would change men by His death. The poison of hate, sensuality, and envy which is in the hearts of men could not be healed... Fulton J. Sheen

• stupid
• kindness
• water

One of the most widespread superstitions is that every man has his own special, definite qualities; that a man is kind, cruel, wise, stupid, energetic, apathetic, etc. Men are not like that . . . Men are like rivers; the water is the same in each, and alike in all; but every river is narrow here, is more rapid there, here slower, there broader, now clear, now cold, now dull, now warm. It is the same with men. Every man carries in himself the germs of every human quality and sometimes one... Leo Tolstoy