Wise Man Quotes

For the wise man looks into space and he knows there is no limited dimensions.

~ Lao Tzu

Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

~ Jean De La Fontaine

A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.

~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

It is best for the wise man not to seem wise.

~ Aeschylus

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

~ Euripides

Knowledge is the treasure of a wise man.

~ William Penn

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.

~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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

~ Jerome Cady

All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.

~ Henry David Thoreau