Wise Men Quotes

A fool always accuses other people; a partially wise man himself; a wholly wise man, neither himself nor others.

Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.

The good education of youth has been esteemed by wise men in all ages as the surest foundation of happiness.

Public business … must always be done by somebody…. If wise men decline it, others will not; if honest men refuse it, others will not.

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

Cato used to assert that wise men profited more by fools than fools by wise men; for that wise men avoided the faults of fools, but that fools would not imitate the good examples of wise men.

I hate to see them take that creche out of the capitol. It could be the only chance we'll ever have to get three wise men in that building.

The follies of the wise man are known to himself, but hidden from the world.

There is not, in the whole compass of human affairs, so noble a spectacle as that which is displayed in the progress of jurisprudence; where we may contemplate the cautious and unwearied exertion of a succession of wise men, through a long course of ages, withdrawing every case, as it arises, from the dangerous power of discretion, and subjecting it to inflexible rules.

There is not one wise man in twenty that will praise himself.

At Athens, wise men propose, and fools dispose.

The reason why I wear gold - I wear gold for three reasons. One, when Jesus was born, three wise men came from the east: one brought frankincense, one brought myrrh, the other one brought gold. The second reason I wear gold is I can afford it. The third reason I wear it, it's symbolic of my African heritage.

Think not silence the wisdom of fools; but, if rightly timed, the honor of wise men, who have not the infirmity, but the virtue of taciturnity.

Great men are the commissioned guides of mankind, who rule their fellows because they are wiser.

In Greece wise men speak and fools decide.

In the old legend the wise men finally boiled down the history of mortal affairs into a single phrase: 'This too will pass.'

Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.

Socrates... Whom well inspir'd the oracle pronounc'd Wisest of men.

Strange star-like object over Oslo right before Obama arrives. A gift of a golden medal given by a group of wise men... Nah.

Precedents deliberately established by wise men are entitled to great weight. They are evidence of truth, but only evidence .... a solitary precedent ... which has never been re-examined, can not be conclusive.

Wise men say, only fools rush in. Wise men are so slow.

Wise men make more opportunities than they find.

There are more fools than wise men, and even in a wise man there is more folly than wisdom.

True intelligence very readily conceives of an intelligence superior to its own; and this is why truly intelligent men are modest.

I pray to heaven to bestow the best of blessings on this house and all that shall hereafter inhabit it. May none but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof.