#wise man

Life is a pilgrimage. The wise man does not rest by the roadside inns. He marches direct to the illimitable domain of eternal bliss, his ultimate destination. ↗

— Swami Sivananda

#destination #direct #does #domain #eternal

That was my choice at that time, and I still say Nixon was a great president. A very beautiful and wise man. ↗

— Solomon Burke

#choice #great #great president #i #man

A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence. ↗

— David Hume

#evidence #his #man #proportions #wise

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

#brave man #down #future #him #history

The man who has sufficient power over himself to wait until his nature has recovered its even balance is the truly wise man, but such beings are seldom met with. ↗

— Giacomo Casanova

#beings #even #himself #his #man

A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer. ↗

— Bruce Lee

#fool #foolish #learn #man #more

The wise man does at once what the fool does finally. ↗

— Niccolo Machiavelli

#finally #fool #man #once #wise

A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men. ↗

— Plato

#among #born #even #found #hero

The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself a fool. ↗