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294 quotesIf what happens does not make us richer, we must welcome it if it makes us wiser.
Experience
Johnson
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He is no wise man who will quit a certainty for an uncertainty.
Wisdom
Samuel Johnson
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Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
Love
Samuel Johnson
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Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
Women
Samuel Johnson
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The wise man applauds he who he thinks most virtuous; the rest of the world applauds the wealthy.
Virtue
Samuel Johnson
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Turn on the prudent ant thy heedful eyes. Observe her labors, sluggard, and be wise.
Laziness
Samuel Johnson
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Bad people excuse their faults; wise people leave them.
Faults
Ben Johnston
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To speak and to speak well, are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
Speakers and Speaking
Ben Jonson
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He has found his style, when he cannot do otherwise.
Style
Paul Klee
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Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots.
Education
Karl Kraus
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The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored.
Bores and Boredom
Jean De La Bruyere
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Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.
Death and Dying
Jean De La Fontaine
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As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.
Age and Aging
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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He who lives without folly isn't so wise as he thinks.
Fools and Foolishness
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.
Wisdom
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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It is more easy to be wise for others than for ourselves.
Wisdom
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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It's easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.
Intelligence and Intellectuals
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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It's the height of folly to want to be the only wise one.
Wisdom
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.
Experience
Alphonse De Lamartine
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The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.
Writers and Writing
Walter Savage Landor
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Fools can find fault, but they can't act anymore wisely.
Faults
Langbien
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For the wise man looks into space and he knows there is no limited dimensions.
Potential
Lao-Tzu
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It's easier to be original and foolish than original and wise.
Originality
Gottfried Wilhelm Von Leibniz
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An epigram is only a wisecrack that's played at Carnegie Hall.
Aphorisms and Epigrams
Oscar Levant
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It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and say the opposite.
Wisdom
Samuel Levenson
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun