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It is a wise man that does know the contented man is never poor, whilst the discontented man is never rich. Frank Herbert

Nothing can confound a wise man more than laughter from a dunce.

Lord Byron

A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.

William Blake

The wise man... if he would live at peace with others, he will bear and forbear.

Samuel Smiles

To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself.

Thomas Carlyle

Make the wise man within you your living ideal.

Karl G. Maeser

It is a wise man that does know the contented man is never poor, whilst the discontented man is never rich.

Frank Herbert

Travel makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.

Thomas Fuller

A wise man turns chance into good fortune.

Thomas Fuller

No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift

The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forbearing.

Epictetus

The wise man does not grow old, but ripens.

Victor Hugo

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.

Plato

He was a wise man who originated the idea of God.

Euripides

A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.

Bruce Lee

To speak and to speak well, are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.

Ben Jonson

The only competition worthy of a wise man is with himself.

Washington Allston

A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.

David Hume

It is a wise man who knows where courage ends and stupidity begins.

Jerome Cady

The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.

Herodotus

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.

Walt Whitman

A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.

Michel de Montaigne

A smart man makes a mistake, learns from it, and never makes that mistake again. But a wise man finds a smart man and learns from him how to avoid the mistake altogether.

Roy H. Williams

The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.

Anna Jameson

A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.

Michel de Montaigne

The Dalai Lama. He is a very wise man of great inner peace who believes that happiness is the purpose of our lives. Through his teachings and leadership, he continues to make this world a better place in which to live.

Sidney Sheldon

The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Niccolo Machiavelli

A smart man only believes half of what he hears, a wise man knows which half.

Jeff Cooper

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.

John B. S. Haldane

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.

Moliere

A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life - knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.

Aristotle

The greatest misfortune of the wise man and the greatest unhappiness of the fool are based upon convention.

Franz Schubert

It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to.

Fannie Hurst

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.

Charles Caleb Colton

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.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.

Chanakya