智慧谚语

1. A man’s wisdom is his best friend; folly his worst enemy. –William Temple

2. A short saying often contains much wisdom. –Sophocles

3. A clever person cannot be clever in every affair.

4. A genius is a man who does unique things of which nobody would expect him to be capable.

-- E. V. Lucas

5. A fool may sometimes give a wise man counsel.

6. A man’s wisdom is the source of pleasure. – Boccaccio

7. A still tongue makes a wise head.

8. A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be led by the nose.

–Mark Twain

9. A well-bred person can wisely treat the criticism.

10. A prudent question is one-half of wisdom. – Francis Bacon

11. A spoon does not know the taste of soup, nor a learned fool the taste of wisdom.

—Welsh Proverb

12. A word to the wise is enough.

13. A really intelligent man feels what other men only know.

--Motesquieu

14. A wise man changes his mind sometimes, a fool never.

--Jonathan Swift

15. A wise man gets more out of his enemies than a fool gets out of his friend.

-- African Proverb

16. A wise man hears one word and understand two.

--Yiddish Proverb

17. A wise man never loses anything if he has himself.

-- Friedrich Nietzsche

18. A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything.

--African Proverb

19. A wise man knows his own ignorance; a fool thinks he knows everything.

-- C. Simmons

20. A wise man never attempts impossibilities.

-- Philip Massinger

21. As a solid rock is not shaken by a strong gale, so wise person remains unaffected by praise or censure. --- Buddha

22. A wise man’s question contains half the answer. – Ibn Gabirol

23. A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.

-- Michel de Montaigne

24. A wise man thinks all that he says, a fool says all that he thinks.

25. A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds. – Francis Bacon

26. All human wisdom is summed up in two words—wait and hope.

-- Alexandre Dumas

27. All is but lip-wisdom which wants experience. –Philip Sidney

28. Adversity reveals genius; fortune conceals it. – Horace

29. Any fool can carry on, but only the wise man knows how to shorten sail. – Joseph Conrad

30. Be swift to hear, slow to speak.

31. Be wiser than other people if you can, but do not tell them so. – Philip Chesterfield

32. Be wisely worldly, be not worldly wise. – Edgar Howe

33. Brevity is the soul of wit.

34. Clever men are the tools with which bad men work. –William Hazlitt

35. Cato used to assert that wise men profited more by fools, than fools by wise men; for that wise men avoided the faults of fools, examples of wise men. –Plutarch

36. Cunning…is but the low mimic of wisdom. –Henry Bolingbroke

37. Cleverness is better than force. –Rabelais

38. Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing.

39. Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise.

-- Samuel Lover

40. Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom. –Samuel Coleridge

41. Deliberate often—decide once. –Latin Proverb

42. Even though you know a thousand things, ask the man who knows one.—Turkish Proverb

43. Even from a foe a man may learn wisdom.—Greek Proverb

44. Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.

--G. C. Lichtenberg

45. Experience is the fool’s master, reason the wise man’s. –Euripides

46. Experience is the mother of wisdom.

47. Experience makes even fools wise.—Saint Augustine

48. Folly is most incurable disease. –Khalil Gibran

49. Fools and wise men are equally harmless. It is the half-fools and the half-wise that are dangerous. –Goethe

50. Fools have their hearts in their mouths, but wise men keep their mouths in their hearts.

51. From listening comes wisdom, and from speaking repentance. –Italian Proverb

52. From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own. –Publius Syrus

53. Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. –Thomas Edison

54. Genius only means hard-working all one’s life. –Mendeleev

55. Get rid of petty cleverness and great wisdom will come out. –Zhuang Zhou

56. Gray hair is a sign of age, not of wisdom. –Greek Proverb

57. He dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.—James Gibbons Huneker

58. He’s a fool that cannot conceal his wisdom. –Benjamin Franklin

59. He who can understand other person’s capability is a capable man.

60. He knows useful things, not many things, is wise.

61. He is the wisest man who does not think himself so.

62. He who is virtuous is wise; and he who is wise is good; and he who is good is happy. –Boethius

63. He who knows others is learned, and he who knows himself is wise. –Lao Zi

64. He who recognizes his folly is on the road to wisdom.

65. How prone to doubt, how caution is the wise. –Homer

66. Ignorance is the mother of superstition.—Honore de Balzac