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A word to the wise ain't necessary, it's the stupid ones who need the advice.

Bill Cosby

The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotations.

Isaac D\'Israeli

The man who questions opinion is wise; the man who quarrels with fact is a fool.

Frank A Garbutt

You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.

Naguib Mahfouz

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

Seneca

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

George Bernard Shaw

Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction and skillful execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives.

William A. Foster

He is a fool who cannot be angry; but he is a wise man who will not.

Seneca

Water is the only drink for a wise man.

Henry David Thoreau

Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.

Henry Mencken

Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.

Benjamin Franklin

If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.

Joseph Addison

Etiquette is the invention of wise men to keep fools at a distance.

Sir Richard Steele

Fools worry; the wise prepare.

Duane Alan Hahn

Dogs are wise. They crawl away into a quiet corner and lick their wounds and do not rejoin the world until they are whole once more.

Agatha Christie

Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen.

John Muir

The body is dust; the wind speaks through it. Understand, O wise one, who has died. Awareness, conflict and ego have died, but the One who sees does not die.

Sri Guru Granth Sahib

A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.

Bruce Lee

As irrigators lead water where they want, as archers make their arrows straight, as carpenters carve wood, the wise shape their minds.

Buddha

Wise men argue cases, fools decide them.

Anacharsis

Wisdom is like electricity. There is no permanently wise man, but men capable of wisdom, who, being put into certain company, or other favorable conditions, become wise for a short time, as glasses rubbed acquire electric power for a while.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Impatience grasps at all, and admits of no delay, scorning to wait God's leisure, and to attend humbly and dutifully upon the issues of his wise and just providence.

Robert South

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

Plato

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

Francis Bacon 1561

The good and the wise lead quiet lives.

Euripides 480BC

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