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294 quotesWe have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.
Wisdom
Georg C. Lichtenberg
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Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meanness for the public good.
Politicians and Politics
Abraham Lincoln
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I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
Self-improvement
Abraham Lincoln
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The two big advantages I had at birth were to have been born wise and to have been born in poverty.
Advantage
Sophia Loren
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Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise.
Circumstance
Samuel Lover
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A wise skepticism is the first attribute of a good critic.
Critics and Criticism
James Russell Lowell
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Wise is the person at either end. Who can in due measure spare as well as spend.
Money
Lucian
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Hip is the sophistication of the wise primitive in a giant jungle.
Sophistication
Norman Mailer
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Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.
Voting
H. L. Mencken
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No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.
Wisdom
H. L. Mencken
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A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
Potential
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
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Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
Fools and Foolishness
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
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Socrates thought and so do I that the wisest theory about the gods is no theory at all.
Theory
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
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We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.
Wisdom
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
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Wise people are foolish if they cannot adapt to foolish people.
Wisdom
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
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I have always observed that to succeed in the world a person must seem simple, yet wise.
Simplicity
Charles De Montesquieu
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Dare to be wise.
Risk
Motto
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The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; The wise grows it under his feet.
Happiness
Julius Robert Oppenheimer
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Look wise say nothing and grunt, speech was given to conceal thought.
Speakers and Speaking
Sir William Osler
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Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.
Wit
Dorothy Parker
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Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable.
Wisdom
John Patrick
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All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.
Sin
Cesare Pavese
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Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment is the treasurer of the one who is wise.
Knowledge
William Penn
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Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.
Time and Time Management
Pericles
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The days that are still to come are the wisest witnesses.
Wisdom
Pindar
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun