Wise Quotes

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"The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense."

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"In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness – otherwise how would you know when...

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#3

"Doubt must be no more than vigilance, otherwise it can become dangerous."

- Georg C. Lichtenberg

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#4

"The wise man doesn’t give the right answers, he poses the right questions."

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#5

"A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels:To unders...

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#6

"In examinations, the foolish ask questions the wise cannot answer."

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#7

"He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has."

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#8

"The wrath of a king is as messengers of death: but a wise man will pacify it."

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#9

"And, hey, I’m not under the illusion that everything’s just going to be hunky-dory work wise forever. I...

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#10

"Wise men put their trust in ideas and not in circumstances."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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#11

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

- Baltasar Gracian

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#12

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

- Grantland Rice

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#13

"A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds."

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#14

"Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something."

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#15

"We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom."

- Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

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#16

"How do you know so much about everything? ‘ was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was ...

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#17

"A wise man is strong; yea, a man of knowledge increaseth strength."

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#18

"The wise man sees in the misfortune of others what he should avoid."

- Marcus Aurelius

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#19

"The wise understand by themselves; fools follow the reports of others."

- Source Unknown

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#20

"Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools talk because they have to say something."

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#21

"All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man."

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#22

"I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had."

- Margaret Mead

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#23

"Even a fool is thought wise if he keeps silent, and discerning if he holds his tongue."

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#24

"No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right."

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#25

"Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing."

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