A fool can throw a stone in a pond that 100 wise men can not get out.
Saul Bellow
A wise man should so write (though in words understood by all men) that wise men only should be able to commend him.
Thomas Hobbes
At Athens, wise men propose, and fools dispose.
Alcuin
Beauty makes idiots sad and wise men merry.
George Jean Nathan
Christmas in Bethlehem. The ancient dream: a cold, clear night made brilliant by a glorious star, the smell of incense, shepherds and wise men falling to their knees in adoration of the sweet baby, the incarnation of perfect love.
Lucinda Franks
Controversy equalizes fools and wise men - and the fools know it.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.
Alphonse de Lamartine
For humble individuals like myself, there is one poor comfort, which is this, viz. that gout, unlike any other disease, kills more rich men than poor, more wise men than simple.
Thomas Sydenham
For if the mystery concealed of old is made manifest to the Apostles through the prophetic writings, and if the prophets, being wise men, understood what proceeded from their own mouths, then the prophets knew what was made manifest to the Apostles.
Origen
For to err in opinion, though it be not the part of wise men, is at least human.
Plutarch
Great deeds give choice of many tales. Choose a slight tale, enrich it large, and then let wise men listen.
Pindar
He that will write well in any tongue, must follow this counsel of Aristotle, to speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do: and so should every man understand him, and the judgment of wise men allow him.
Roger Ascham
Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
In Greece wise men speak and fools decide.
George Santayana
Kings may be judges of the earth, but wise men are the judges of kings.
Solomon Ibn Gabirol
Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.
William Shakespeare
Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men.
Thomas Huxley
May none but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof.
David McCullough
Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men.
Douglas Bader
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