Less Wise Quotes
11 quotes by 10 authors
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Knowledge is indivisible. When people grow wise in one direction, they are sure to make it easier for themselves to grow wise in other directions…
— Isaac Asimov
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Levity is often less foolish and gravity less wise than each of them appears.
— Charles Caleb Colton
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It is too often seen, that the wiser men are about the things of this world, the less wise they are about the things of…
— Edmund Gibson
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Gnomic wisdom, however, is notoriously polychrome, and proverbs depend for their truth entirely on the occasion they are applied to. Almost every wise saying has…
— George Santayana
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The peculiar circumstances of the moment may render a measure more or less wise, but cannot render it more or less constitutional.
— John Marshall
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We lean on Faith; and some less wise have cried, "Behold the butterfly, the see that's cast!" Vain hopes that fall like flowers before the…
— Richard Watson Gilder
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The way to get on in the world is to be neither more nor less wise, neither better nor worse than your neighbours.
— William Hazlitt
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Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.
— George Santayana
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If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.
— William Butler Yeats
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Wise is the one who learns from another´s mistakes. Less wise is the one who learns only from his own mistakes. The fool keeps making…
— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
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In a word, we may gather out of History a policy no less wise than I eternal; by the comparison and application of other mens…
— Walter Raleigh
Who Wrote These Less Wise Quotes
10 authors contributed a total of 11 Less Wise Quotes as follows: