Wise Quotes

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Although the masters make the rules for the wise men and the fools, I've got nothing, Ma, to live up to. — Bob Dylan
What is wrong with priests and popes is that instead of being apostles and saints, they are nothing but empirics who say I know instead… — George Bernard Shaw
Experience is the only prophecy of wise men. — Alphonse de Lamartine
Levity is often less foolish and gravity less wise than each of them appears. — Charles Caleb Colton
Wise men never sit and wail their loss, but cheerily seek how to redress their harms. — William Shakespeare
All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes. — Winston Churchill
He that never thinks can never be wise. — Samuel Johnson
The multitude of fools is a protection to the wise. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
If what happens does not make us richer, we must welcome it if it makes us wiser. — Samuel Johnson
He that thinks he is the happiest man, really is so. But he that thinks he is the wisest, is generally the greatest fool. — Charles Caleb Colton
Great men are the commissioned guides of mankind, who rule their fellows because they are wiser. — Thomas Carlyle
An epigram is only a wisecrack that's played at Carnegie Hall. — Oscar Levant
Fools make researches and wise men exploit them. — H.G. Wells
No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The wise know that foolish legislation is a rope of sand, which perishes in the twisting. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Of neighborhoods, benevolence is the most beautiful. How can the man be considered wise who when he had the choice does not settle in benevolence. — Confucius
To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be… — Georg C. Lichtenberg
A wise man will see to it that his acts always seem voluntary and not done by compulsion, however much he may be compelled by… — Niccolo Machiavelli
A wise government knows how to enforce with temper, or to conciliate with dignity. — George Grenville
Well, he's got a much bigger circus to play with, and he has a lot more financing available, and he has a lot more time… — Michael Madsen

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