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#wise man

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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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