Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.
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Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?
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He who knows not, and knows not that he knows not is a fool; shun him. He who knows not, and knows that he knows not is a child; teach him. He who knows, and knows not that he knows is asleep; wake him. He who knows, and know that he knows is wise; follow him.
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I trust that everything happens for a reason, even when we're not wise enough to see it.
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Education, n.: That which discloses the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
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The old Lakota was wise. He knew that man's heart away from nature becomes hard he knew that lack of respect for growing, living things soon led to lack of respect for humans, too.
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We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
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Wise and prudent men intelligent conservatives have long known that in a changing world worthy institutions can be conserved only by adjusting them to the changing times.
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Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.
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A word to the wise ain't necessary it's the stupid ones that need the advice.
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Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.
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A wise man ought always to follow the paths beaten by great men, and to imitate those who have been supreme, so that if his ability does not equal theirs, at least it will savor of it. Let him act like the clever archers who, designing to hit the mark which yet appears too far distant, and knowing the limits to which the strength of their bow attains, take aim much higher than the mark, not to reach by their strength or arrow to so great a height, but to be able with the aid of so high an aim to hit the mark they wish to reach.
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Folly, thou conquerest, and I must yieldAgainst stupidity the very godsThemselves contend in vain. Exalted reason, Resplendent daughter of the head divine, Wise foundress of the system of the world, Guide of the stars, who are thou then, if thou, Bound to the tail of folly's uncurb'd steed, Must, vainly shrieking, with the drunken crowd, Eyes open, plunge down headlong in the abyss.
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Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent.
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He was a scholar, and a ripe and good one; Exceeding wise, fair spoken, and persuading; Lofty and sour to them that loved him not, But to those men that sought him sweet as summer.
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Men are wise in proportion not to their experience but to their capacity for experience.
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There is one safeguard known generally to the wise, which is an advantage and security to all, but especially to democracies against despots suspicion.
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Many books, Wise men have said, are wearisome; who reads Incessantly, and to his reading brings not A spirit and judgment equal or superior, Uncertain and unsettled still remains Deep versed in books, and shallow in himself.
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You are wise to climb Mt. Fuji, but a fool to do it twice.
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Wisdom is a variable possession. Every man is wise when pursued by a mad dog, fewer when pursued by a mad woman; only the wisest survive when attacked by a mad notion.
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All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.
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When I can look life in the eyes, grown calm and very coldly wise, life will have given me the truth, and taken in exchange my youth.
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Some folks are wise and some are otherwise.
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He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself at twenty.
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In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it thou art a fool.
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