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" A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool. "
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
" A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees. "
William Blake
" A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool. "
William Shakespeare
" A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men. "
Plato
" All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man. "
Henry David Thoreau
" Any fool can wash himself, but every wise man knows that it is an unnecessary labour, for nature will quickly reduce him to a natural and healthy dirtiness again. "
James Stephens
" A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books. "
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
" A smart man only believes half of what he hears, a wise man knows which half. "
Jeff Cooper
" A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer. "
Bruce Lee
" A wise man does not chatter with one whose mind is sick. "
Sophocles
" A wise man fights to win, but he is twice a fool who has no plan for possible defeat. "
Louis L'Amour
" A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends. "
Baltasar Gracian
" A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him. "
Samuel Johnson
" A wise man looks upon men as he does on horses; all their comparisons of title, wealth, and place, he consider but as harness. "
Robert Cecil
" A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion. "
Grantland Rice
" A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself. "
Michel de Montaigne
" A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence. "
David Hume
" A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can. "
Michel de Montaigne
" A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart. "
Jonathan Swift
" A wise man should so write (though in words understood by all men) that wise men only should be able to commend him. "
Thomas Hobbes
" A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win. "
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
" A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult. "
John Churton Collins
" A wise man, when he writes a book, sets forth his arguments fully and clearly; an enlightened ruler, when he makes his laws, sees to it that every contingency is provided for in detail. "
Han Fei
" A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain. "
Samuel Johnson
" A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds. "
Francis Bacon
" Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard. "
Will Durant
" Bombino's a super modest guy, very nice. His whole crew is a bunch of characters and he's definitely the Grand Poobah. I don't think the other guys are that much younger than him, but he definitely feels like the wise man; you just sort of get that sense when you're around him. He doesn't say that much but he's humble and well-respected. "
Dan Auerbach
" Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital. The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket. "
Andrew Carnegie
" Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go. "
Jean de La Fontaine
" For the wise man looks into space and he knows there is no limited dimensions. "
Lao Tzu
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