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The French are wiser than they seem, and the Spaniards seem wiser than they are.
Nationalities and Nationalism
Francis Bacon

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The public is wiser than the wisest critic.
Public
George Bancroft

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The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.
Wisdom
William Blake

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The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.
Wisdom
Napoleon Bonaparte

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Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth.
Belief
Ludwig Borne

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Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.
Truth
Ludwig Borne

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Great men are the commissioned guides of mankind, who rule their fellows because they are wiser.
Wisdom
Thomas Carlyle

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All noble enthusiasms pass through a feverish stage, and grow wiser and more serene.
Enthusiasm
William Ellery Channing

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Be wiser than other people, if you can; but do not tell them so.
Discretion
Lord Chesterfield

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In those days he was wiser than he is now -- he used frequently to take my advice.
Advice
Winston Churchill

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Thinking well to be wise: planning well, wiser: doing well wisest and best of all.
Thoughts and Thinking
Malcolm S. Forbes

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Traveling makes a man wiser, but less happy.
Travel and Tourism
Thomas Jefferson

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If what happens does not make us richer, we must welcome it if it makes us wiser.
Experience
Johnson

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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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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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But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.
Wealth
Alexander Pope

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Satan is wiser now than before, and tempts by making rich instead of poor.
Devil
Alexander Pope

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We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow. Our wiser sons, no doubt will think us so.
Fathers and Sons
Alexander Pope

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It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.
Wisdom
Philippe Quinault

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun