Dies Quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly,…

— Anonymous

Many would be wise if they did not think themselves wise.

— Baltasar Gracian

The stupid don't even understand something that happened long ago, the wise understand it before it develops.

— Shang Yang

The wisest mind has something yet to learn.

— George Santayana

The stupid speak of the past, the wise of the present, and fools of the future.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

An intelligent mind can overthink almost everything but a wise mind only thinks about what is needed to be thought.

— Terry Mark

All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Smart people are a dime a dozen. What matters is the ability to think different... to think out of the box.

— Walter Isaacson

Even people who aren’t geniuses can outthink the rest of mankind if they develop certain thinking habits.

— Charles Darwin

Cleverness is not wisdom. And not to think mortal thoughts is to see few days.

— Euripides

We study history not to be clever in another time, but to be wise always.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

We are entering a period of human history that may provide an answer to the question of whether it is better to be smart…

— Noam Chomsky