Famous quotes containing the words wise man, wise and/or man:
“If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one, but the wise man is foolish to give them the lie.”
—W. Somerset Maugham (1874–1966)
“The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“But Irish had an old soul, you might say. He was a man with a great future behind him, already.”
—Angela Carter (1940–1992)