A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion.

It takes a wise man to discover a wise man.

If a wise man behaves prudently, how can he be overcome by his enemies? Even a single man, by right action, can overcome a host of foes.

A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.

I'm not trying to sound like I turned into some kind of wise man, but it's nice to realize that your little pocket of the world isn't the whole world.

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.

A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

To speak and to speak well, are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.

Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.

The fool wonders, the wise man asks.

No wise man ever wished to be younger.

A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.

The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.

In my wide travels across the world and my meetings with various heads of states, be that Africa or South Asia, Singapore or in high level meetings in the U.S., U.K. or Japan, one common mention is about Dr. Singh's extraordinary reputation as a Wise Man, an outstanding Economist and a fine Gentleman.

Make the wise man within you your living ideal.

There is only a finger's difference between a wise man and a fool.

A wise man, when he writes a book, sets forth his arguments fully and clearly; an enlightened ruler, when he makes his laws, sees to it that every contingency is provided for in detail.

Who then is free? The wise man who can command himself.

He was a wise man who invented beer.

It takes a very wise man to act the fool.