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A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.
William Shakespeare
Wise
Man
Wise Man
Fool
Himself
Knows
Thinks
A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.
Bruce Lee
Wise
Man
Wise Man
Fool
More
Foolish
Learn
Answer
Question
Than
From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus
Wise
Man
Wise Man
Own
Others
Corrects
His
Errors
A smart man makes a mistake, learns from it, and never makes that mistake again. But a wise man finds a smart man and learns from him how to avoid the mistake altogether.
Roy H. Williams
Wise
Man
Wise Man
Mistake
Intelligence
Smart
Finds
Never
Smart Man
Him
Altogether
Makes
Learns
How
Again
Avoid
Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Future
History
Wise
Man
Wise Man
Wait
Down
Run
Neither
Lies
Over
Him
Tracks
Nor
Train
Brave
Brave Man
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
Wise
Man
Wise Man
Hero
Men
Hundred
Thousand
Born
Accomplished
Might
Even
Found
Among
The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.
Niccolo Machiavelli
Wise
Man
Wise Man
Fool
Once
Finally
Does
A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.
Moliere
Wisdom
Best
Patience
Wise
Man
Wise Man
Behavior
Superior
Put
Him
Insults
Reply
Moderation
Any
Which
He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
Epictetus
Wise
Man
Wise Man
Those
He
Does
Grieve
Which
Who
Things
Rejoices
A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.
David Hume
Wise
Man
Wise Man
Evidence
Proportions
His
Belief
It's a wise man who understands that every day is a new beginning, because boy, how many mistakes do you make in a day? I don't know about you, but I make plenty. You can't turn the clock back, so you have to look ahead.
Mel Gibson
Day
You
Wise
Man
Wise Man
New Beginning
Every Day
Mistakes
Beginning
Every
Back
Plenty
About
New
Know
Look
Make
Because
Boy
Understands
How
Clock
Turn
Who
Many
A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Wise
Man
Conversation
Wise Man
Learning
Better
Single
Books
Table
Ten
Ten Years
Mere
Study
Years
Than
Across
True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance.
Akhenaton
Wisdom
Wise
Man
Ignorance
Wise Man
Fool
Mind
Own
Presuming
All Things
Folly
He
True
Obstinate
True Wisdom
His
Than
Often
Less
Things
The foolish man conceives the idea of 'self.' The wise man sees there is no ground on which to build the idea of 'self;' thus, he has a right conception of the world and well concludes that all compounds amassed by sorrow will be dissolved again, but the truth will remain.
Buddha
Truth
Wise
Man
Wise Man
World
Will
Build
Dissolved
Compounds
Sees
Remain
Foolish
Self
He
Idea
Thus
Conception
Sorrow
Well
Which
Again
Ground
Right
The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.
Lao Tzu
Wise
Man
Wise Man
Own
Others
More
Gives
Lay
He
Does
His
Up
Treasures
A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses.
Hippocrates
Health
Wise
Man
Wise Man
Thought
Own
Consider
Benefit
Blessings
Learn
Greatest
How
His
Human
Should
Derive
Illnesses
Quick condemnation of all that is not ours, of views with which we disagree, of ideas that do not attract us, is the sign of a narrow mind, of an uncultivated intelligence. Bigotry is always ignorant, and the wise boy, who will become the wise man, tries to understand and to see the truth in ideas with which he does not agree.
Annie Besant
Truth
Wise
Man
Wise Man
Intelligence
Disagree
Mind
Will
Become
Sign
Ours
Tries
See
He
Ideas
Attract
Understand
Boy
Does
Always
Narrow
Condemnation
Quick
Which
Us
Ignorant
Views
Who
Agree
Who is the wise man? He who sees what's going to be born.
King Solomon
Wise
Man
Wise Man
Born
Sees
He
Going
Who
To speak and to speak well, are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
Ben Jonson
Wise
Man
Wise Man
Fool
Speak
Talk
Well
May
Speaks
Things
Two
A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
Wisdom
Wise
Man
Wise Man
Fool
Himself
Flatters
A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
Jonathan Swift
Wise
Man
Wise Man
Heart
Money
Head
His
Should
The fool wonders, the wise man asks.
Benjamin Disraeli
Wise
Man
Wise Man
Fool
Wonders
Ask
It is a wise man who knows where courage ends and stupidity begins.
Jerome Cady
Wise
Man
Wise Man
Courage
Stupidity
Knows
Begins
Ends
Where
Who
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
Time
Wise
Man
Wise Man
Will
Value
Pain
Unnecessary
Haste
He
True
Make
Knows
Because
Pass
True Value
Forgive
Suffer
Away
A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Angry
Wise
Man
Wise Man
Treat
Physician
Patient
Sick
Extravagant
Mad
Only
Take
He
Look
Does
His
Nor
Fever
Just
Them
Mankind
Should
Ill
Medical
The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.
Herbert Spencer
Future
Wise
Man
Wise Man
Remember
Past
Must
Parent
He
While
Descendant
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