Wise man Quotes

“Wise man is a wing; stupid man is a hole! You meet a wise man, you rise, you meet a stupid man, and you fall!”

“I am sorry to tell you this thing. Youu are a good man, and a pretty thing. But still, you are only a man. All you have to offer the world is your anger.”

“The conqueror is regarded with awe the wise man commands our respect but it is only the benevolent man that wins our affection. ”

“A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant.”

“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.”

“There is a great difference between a gift given freely, and one that's meant to tie you to a man.”

“Love is the power of a wise man. It is a net for a lover. It is a tool for a clever man. Love is a song for a singer.”

“It's the questions we can't answer that teach us the most. They teach us how to think. If you give a man an answer, all he gains is a little fact. But give him a question and he'll look for his own answers.”

“The wise man has struggled to find You in his wisdom, and he has failed. The just man has striven to grasp You in his own justice, and he has gone astray.But the sinner, suddenly struck by the lightning of mercy that ought to have been justice, falls down in adoration of Your holiness: for he had seen what kings desired to see and never saw, what prophets foretold and never gazed upon, what the men of ancient times grew weary of expecting when they died. He has seen that Your love is so infinitely good that it cannot be the object of a human bargain.”

“It is not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.”