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Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Plato

Wise Speak Men Fools Say Something Wise Men Because

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

We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future. George Bernard Shaw

Wisdom Future Wise Responsibility Made Past Our Recollection

True love is not a strong, fiery, impetuous passion. It is, on the contrary, an element calm and deep. It looks beyond mere externals, and is attracted by qualities alone. It is wise and discriminating, and its devotion is real and abiding. Ellen G. White

Love True Love Alone Wise Love Is Strong Passion Calm On The Contrary Abide Impetuous Mere True Beyond Attracted Qualities Looks Devotion Real Discriminating Contrary Fiery Deep Element

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

Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish. Albert Einstein

God Wise Before Foolish Equally

From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own. Publilius Syrus

Wise Man Wise Man Own Others Corrects His Errors

Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late. Benjamin Franklin

Life Wise Too Late Old Too Late Soon Tragedy Get

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

Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists. Blaise Pascal

The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget. Thomas Szasz

Forgiveness Wise Stupid Neither Naive Nor Forget Forgive

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Religion Wise People Rulers True False Common Regarded Common People Useful

Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise. H. G. Wells

Sad Wise Sorry Affliction Make Sober Us

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations. Benjamin Disraeli

Wisdom Wise Experience Quotations Ages

A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. Thomas Jefferson

Government Wise Men Free Own Mouth Earned Otherwise Restrain Shall Pursuits Take Industry Another Leave Labor Improvement Bread Frugal Which Them Regulate Injuring

Divide and rule, the politician cries; unite and lead, is watchword of the wise. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Wise Politician Cries Rule Divide Lead Unite

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook. William James

Art Wise Knowing Overlook Being

The wise man does at once what the fool does finally. Niccolo Machiavelli

Wise Man Wise Man Fool Once Finally Does

Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom. Charles Spurgeon

Wisdom Great Knowledge Wise Fool Great Deal Men Fools Know Knowing Greater Deal How Use Many Right

I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago. Edgar Allan Poe

Faith Wise Man Happy Humanity Will Active Think More Only He Exertion Nor Years Years Ago Effect Than Human Now

Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends. J. R. R. Tolkien

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