#wise man

Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard. ↗

— Will Durant

#history #hoard #inflationary #know #last

The shallow consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise man sees in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws. ↗

— Walt Whitman

#constraint #contrary #every #law #laws

A smart man makes a mistake, learns from it, and never makes that mistake again. But a wise man finds a smart man and learns from him how to avoid the mistake altogether. ↗

— Roy H. Williams

#altogether #avoid #finds #him #how

It is a wise man that does know the contented man is never poor, whilst the discontented man is never rich. ↗

— Frank Herbert

#discontented #does #know #man #never

The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence. ↗

— Herodotus

#human #influence #man #misfortune #most

A smart man only believes half of what he hears, a wise man knows which half. ↗

— Jeff Cooper

#half #hears #knows #man #only

A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool. ↗

— Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

#flatters #fool #himself #man #wise

A wise man fights to win, but he is twice a fool who has no plan for possible defeat. ↗

— Louis L'Amour

#fights #fool #man #plan #possible

A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#head #heart #his #man #should

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