Famous quotes containing the words wise man, wise and/or man:
“There’s not one wise man among twenty that will praise himself.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“Is it not manifest that our academic institutions should have a wider scope; that they should not be timid and keep the ruts of the last generation, but that wise men thinking for themselves and heartily seeking the good of mankind, and counting the cost of innovation, should dare to arouse the young to a just and heroic life; that the moral nature should be addressed in the school-room, and children should be treated as the high-born candidates of truth and virtue?”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“No man is so perfect, so necessary to his friends, as to give them no cause to miss him less.”
—Jean De La Bruyère (1645–1696)