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Wise Quotes by Josh Billings
- The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way.
- There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply.
- Some folks as they grow older grow wise but most folks simply grow stubborner.
- Some folks are wise and some otherwise.
- Experience makes more timid men than it does wise ones.
- It's a wise man who profits by his own experience, but it's a good deal wiser one who lets the rattlesnake bite the other fellow.
- It is true that wealth won't make a man virtuous, but I notice there ain't anybody who wants to be poor just for the purpose…
- What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul I suppose this depends somewhat upon the size…
- A wise man never enjoys himself so much, nor a fool so little, as when alone.
- Music wasn't made to make us wise, but better natured.
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- A wise person decides slowly but abides by these decisions. — Arthur Ashe
- Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. — Isaac Asimov
- Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge,… — Isaac Asimov
- I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in either of… — Saint Augustine
- It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live. — Marcus Aurelius
- To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution. — Marcus Aurelius
- It is wise to keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final. — Roger Babson