#wise man

The wise man regulates his conduct by the theories both of religion and science. But he regards these theories not as statements of ultimate fact but as art-forms. ↗

— John B. S. Haldane

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A wise man should so write (though in words understood by all men) that wise men only should be able to commend him. ↗

— Thomas Hobbes

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A wise man looks upon men as he does on horses; all their comparisons of title, wealth, and place, he consider but as harness. ↗

— Robert Cecil

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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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Knowledge is the treasure of a wise man. ↗

— William Penn

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The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself. ↗

— Anna Jameson

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The greatest misfortune of the wise man and the greatest unhappiness of the fool are based upon convention. ↗

— Franz Schubert

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A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool. ↗

— William Shakespeare

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The wise man... if he would live at peace with others, he will bear and forbear. ↗

— Samuel Smiles

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It takes a wise man to handle a lie, a fool had better remain honest. ↗

— Norman Douglas

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