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A wise man can learn more from a foolish question
by Bruce Lee

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

Related topics: Wisdom

Wise Quotes and Sayings

No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is,
he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.
- Helen Keller

He who knows others is wise.
He who knows himself is enlightened.
- Lao Tzu

If you wish to succeed in life,
make perseverance your bosom friend,
experience your wise counselor,
caution your elder brother,
and hope your guardian genius.
- Joseph Addison

I was wise enough to never grow up
while fooling most people into believing I had.
- Margaret Mead

It is a wise father that knows his own child.
- William Shakespeare

Wise men put their trust in ideas
and not in circumstances
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

A wise man will make haste to forgive,
because he knows the true value of time,
and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.
- Samuel Johnson

I have always been regretting that
I was not as wise as the day I was born.
- Henry David Thoreau

A wise man hears one word and understands two.
- Yiddish Proverb

All this worldly wisdom was once
the unamiable heresy of some wise man.
- Henry David Thoreau

Early to bed and early to rise,
makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
- Benjamin Franklin

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance;
the wise grows it under his feet.
- J. Robert Oppenheimer

Self-pity is our worst enemy
and if we yield to it,
we can never do anything wise in this world.
- Helen Keller

A wise girl kisses but doesn't love,
listens but doesn't believe,
and leaves before she is left.
- Marilyn Monroe

It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures,
but the foolish to be a slave to them.
- Epictetus

You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers.
You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
- Naguib Mahfouz

Everyone is wise, until he speaks.
- Irish proverb

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

It is always wise to look ahead,
but difficult to look further than you can see.
- Winston Churchill

Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.
- Publilius Syrus

The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought,
sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve.
- The Buddha

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

To be idle is a short road to death
and to be diligent is a way of life;
foolish people are idle,
wise people are diligent.
- The Buddha

Thoughtful people seldom share exactly the same opinion -
the same point-of-view.
The wise ones understand that they know nothing -
for virtually none of our experience is truly factual -
and they graciously honor all other opinions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere,
while the pessimist sees only the red stoplight.
The truly wise person is colorblind.
- Albert Schweitzer

The more he became truly wise,
the more he distrusted everything he knew.
- Voltaire

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

When you are winning a war
almost everything that happens
can be claimed to be right and wise.
- Winston Churchill

Religion is regarded by the common people as true,
by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Take risks: if you win, you will be happy;
if you lose, you will be wise.
- Anonymous

He is a wise man who does not grieve
for the things which he has not,
but rejoices for those which he has.
- Epictetus

The wise man in the storm prays God,
not for safety from danger,
but for deliverance from fear.
It is the storm within which endangers him,
not the storm without.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
- Albert Einstein

A wise and frugal government,
which shall leave men free to regulate
their own pursuits of industry and improvement,
and shall not take from the mouth
of labor and the bread it has earned -
this is the sum of good government.
- Thomas Jefferson

The wise man does not lay up his own treasures.
The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.
- Lao Tzu

Laws are sand, customs are rock.
Laws can be evaded and punishment escaped,
but an openly transgressed custom brings sure punishment.
The penalty may be unfair, unrighteous, illogical, and a cruelty;
no matter, it will be inflicted, just the same.
Certainly, then, there can be but one wise thing
for a visiting stranger to do -
find out what the country's customs are,
and refrain from offending against them.
- Mark Twain

Every day is a new beginning -
a day for a new plan and new action.
If today, in conscious awareness, you choose
the same plan as yesterday, you are wise.
If you choose a different plan, you are equally wise.
Whatever you choose, choose with intention.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

See no evil, Hear no evil, Speak no evil.
- Japanese pictorial maxim (the Three Wise Monkeys)

A wise one said, "We are most like God when we forgive."
It is easy for us to blame, but hard for us to forgive.
Yet that is what we are called upon to do -
to forgive everyone for everything.
And the reward?
In this life, the reward for forgiveness
is your own happiness.
Unconditional universal forgiveness is
the key to your own happiness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Excellence is the result of
caring more than others think wise,
risking more than other's think safe,
dreaming more than others think practical,
and expecting more than others think possible.
- Anonymous

Man Quotes and Sayings

Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits
and then complain that he's not the man she married?
- Barbra Streisand

What is happiness except the simple harmony
between a man and the life he leads?
- Albert Camus

Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

It doesn't matter how long my hair is
or what color my skin is
or whether I'm a woman or a man.
- John Lennon

Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty;
it is its own reward.
Everything else is in God's hands.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
- Socrates

Adversity introduces a man to himself.
- Anonymous

A man who doesn't trust himself
can never really trust anyone else.
- Cardinal De Retz

Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

A man who dares to waste one hour of time
has not discovered the value of life.
- Charles Darwin

All religions must be tolerated...
for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
- Epictetus

Hardly a man in the world has an opinion
upon morals, political, or religion
which he got otherwise than
through his associations and sympathies.
- Mark Twain

A man must be both stupid and uncharitable
who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
- Joseph Addison

Freedom is never dear at any price.
It is the breath of life.
What would a man not pay for living?
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

No man is a failure who enjoys life.
- William Feather

Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
- Francis Bacon

Revenge... is like a rolling stone,
which, when a man hath forced up a hill,
will return upon him with a greater violence,
and break those bones whose sinews gave it motion.
- Albert Schweitzer

The man who can't dance thinks the band is no good.
- Polish Proverb

I don't like that man.
I must get to know him better.
- Abraham Lincoln

The man with insight enough to admit his limitations
comes nearest to perfection.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Habit is habit,
and not to be flung out of the window by any man,
but coaxed down-stairs a step at a time.
- Mark Twain

He is a man of courage who does not run away,
but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
- Socrates

The man who is dissatisfied with himself, what can he do?
- Henry David Thoreau

Experience is not what happens to a man.
It is what a man does with what happens to him.
- Aldous Huxley

Each man is afraid of his neighbor's disapproval -
a thing which, to the general run of the human race,
is more dreaded than wolves and death.
- Mark Twain

A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
- Mark Twain

Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea,
never regains its original dimensions.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Of course I am afraid. What sane man is not?
- Luciano Pavarotti

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men.
No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
- Elbert Hubbard

Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.
- Carl Jung

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