#wise man

The only question which any wise man can ask himself, and which any honest man will ask himself, is whether a doctrine is true or false. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

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It is a wise man who knows where courage ends and stupidity begins. ↗

— Jerome Cady

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Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go. ↗

— Jean de La Fontaine

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It is a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals. ↗

— Felix Frankfurter

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A wise man turns chance into good fortune. ↗

— Thomas Fuller

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A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

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A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool. ↗

— Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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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

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A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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