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It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to.
A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion.
The wise man... if he would live at peace with others, he will bear and forbear.
To speak and to speak well, are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
A wise man fights to win, but he is twice a fool who has no plan for possible defeat.
It is not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.
A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.
The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forbearing.
Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.
I myself think that the wise man meddles little or not at all in affairs and does his own things.
The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.
It is a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals.
So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.
A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.
The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.
The skilful employer of men will employ the wise man, the brave man, the covetous man, and the stupid man.
He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
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.
That was my choice at that time, and I still say Nixon was a great president. A very beautiful and wise man.
When I was a boy, my own dad told me in a smiling and wistful way that it's a wise man that knows his own father.
Wise kings generally have wise counselors; and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one.
A wise man should so write (though in words understood by all men) that wise men only should be able to commend him.
A wise man knows when to go 'head and back off so you gotta pick and choose your fights. I know how to pick and choose.
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.
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.
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.
Pray thee, spare, thyself at times: for it becomes a wise man sometimes to relax the high pressure of his attention to work.
A wise man looks upon men as he does on horses; all their comparisons of title, wealth, and place, he consider but as harness.
Mr. Steven Bochco is a very wise man. After a many-monthed nationwide search to find a precocious teenage doctor, he hired me.
Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital. The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket.
The conqueror is regarded with awe; the wise man commands our respect; but it is only the benevolent man that wins our affection.
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.
The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.
There is no one thoroughly despicable. We cannot descend much lower than an idiot; and an idiot has some advantages over a wise man.
A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.
A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.
Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life.
A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.
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.
The only question which any wise man can ask himself, and which any honest man will ask himself, is whether a doctrine is true or false.
The shallow consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise man sees in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws.
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.
A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses.
A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men.
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.
Life is a pilgrimage. The wise man does not rest by the roadside inns. He marches direct to the illimitable domain of eternal bliss, his ultimate destination.
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.
Any fool can wash himself, but every wise man knows that it is an unnecessary labour, for nature will quickly reduce him to a natural and healthy dirtiness again.
The wise man regulates his conduct by the theories both of religion and science. But he regards these theories not as statements of ultimate fact but as art-forms.